is bush only in iraq to get the oil or is he really trying to hekp the people?
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I think both. I think mostly he has a grand idea about changing the nature of the Middle East so that it's less dangerous to the U.S., but so far he doesn't seem to be succeeding.
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first off we are not at war WITH Iraq, we are at war IN Iraq.  There is no established side we are fighting its an idiology.  The combatants arent all from Iraq as most of these people seem to think.  They are muslim extremests from Iraq, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia and basically all over the middle east.  People are too naive to hear the truth from the govt because it would be skewed.  Fact is we are their for the oil.  but not for us to profit.  for these fundamentalist not to be able to profit.  Oil is funding the assault on the US.  The fact is there are weapons out there that if the wrong people get ahold of them can cause us great destruction.  They need money to carry out that plan.  We stop them from using oil and keep them fighting and exhaust their money they will be held in check to attack in your back yard.  The advancement of weapons has made the idea of isolation obsolete.  Lets use an example.  If Hitler had chinas long range missle capabilities and  one nuclear weapon you think he wouldnt have sent it over here?  ofcourse.  There are leaders in the middle east, and scary enough now in south america that would do the same thing now.  Facts are we will be at war for ever.  Alot of people are going to die and its sad but to allow this country to continue in peace our military is going to have to stomp out this idiology.
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Because Bush wanted to spread the democracy ?? BULLSHIT !!\nHe wants money, oil, he wants to control the world ...
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The Bush Administrations plans? What plans?\n\nThey just have our troops over there for looks! There is no exit strategy! They are there now so that they can guard the oil!
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Wow... You need to chill out a little.\n\nThe oil was in Iraq so George Bush invaded Iraq.
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No. That is actually a good question. I think that Pres. Bush is trying to gain the world support [especially the UN..because they didn't when they liberated Iraq] Bush just wants to make sure that he has an ally.
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The situation in Iraq reminds me of trying to hold water in your bare hands.  The present government is like a Mirage in the desert, and will surely fall, maybe as soon as this week if the Shiites threat holds up.  If we leave Iraq will collapse.  If we stay it will collapse slower, but still collapse.  The idea that fundamentalists, no matter of what stripe, will have control of Iraq's oil I'm sure is making people sweat all over the world.  Oil must be reasonably stable.  To accomplish this end,  Bush is going to have to open this up and really include the rest of the world in discussions, military personnel, planning, and execution,  if there is any hope at this point  Let us hope that it is not too late for some form of reasonable solution to be worked out.
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Could be he knows oil supplies are dwindling in Saudi Arabia where he has co-harts. Knew he had to do something to keep up his flow of money to himself and cronies based on oil production and trade. Somehow I think the Saudi's are in on this somewhere.
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Bush was never really trying to get him. He just used him to scream about war, WMD's and to do what he, Bush wanted. Besides Bush has been in bed with that family since way back when he was drilling all those dry oil wells in Texas. Who do you think bailed him out?
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Because Bush needs the oil!
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For the oil\n\nThe current bush is still upset with Saddam for trying to kill his daddy
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We had no business being in Iraq in the first place. There are only two reasons why Goerge Bush invaded this sovereign nation: 1) he wanted to 'get even' with Saddam Hussein for humiliating his daddy during Desert Storm; 2) Dick Cheney wants all that oil swimming underneath Iraq's sands.\n\nSo, Cheney and Rumsfeld persuaded Bush to proceed with an illegal, unconstitutional war.\n\n(Check out a new blog - BUSHWACKER! -\nwww.blogger.com\nhttp://al-aback.blogspot.com)\n\nFinding no weapons of mass destruction, Bush is too much of a 'macho man' to back down, so continues his charade by telling Americans that Iraq is part of an "evil empire". Truth be told, the only "evil empire" is that of the United States as it bullies other countries around the world for its own economic benefit. Let's face it: there are all kinds of other despots running regimes around the world, but Bush pays no attention to those dictatorships. Why? Because they have no OIL. So the United States allows the genocide to continue, sometimes even providing financial aid! \n\nBush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are indeed the most evil, corrupt and incompetent people ever to occupy the Oval Office. The sitting U.S. Congress is the most evil, corrupt and incompetent body ever to occupy the Capitol Building. \n\nAll of these people deserve to be impeached, or tried for high treason. If convicted they must face a firing squad. Their crimes against humanity, against the Constitution, and against the American populace are unspeakable. George Bush has murdered tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi citizens, not to mention more than 2,500 U.S. soldiers. \n\nBush has no interest in turning Iraq into a democracy (how many other countries is he using these forceful tactics on to change their way of government?). Prediction: NO TROOPS WILL BE WITHDRAW FROM IRAQ UNTIL DICK CHENEY HAS AN IRON-CLAD, ROCK-SOLID AGREEMENT IN PLACE TO ACQUIRE ALL OF IRAQ'S OIL so that he and his friends at Hallaburton and Exxon-Mobil can become even more obscenely wealthy.\n\nShould there be a time table for withdrawal? Of course; since we're already there, it would be chaos if we left immediately. But we should have never been there in the first place. What George Bush did was illegal, evil, and repugnant to most of the civilized world. Bush has put Americans trillions of dollars into debt' he has tarnished our reputation as a global leader; and he has helped spread the terrorist movement because, now, many small countries are terrified of the U.S.A., afraid that they, too will be bullied into accepting democracy or Christianity as their way of life. Nuclear weapons might be their only way of defending themselves against the tyrannical United States.\n\nHistory will certainly record Bush as the stupidest man ever to occupy the White House, to date. If he and his cronies ever get convicted of high crimes, certainly Satan will have a special oil-saturated corner of Hell reserved for them, where then can spend their eternal damnation blaming each other for the mess they made of this Earth.\n\nBush's failed economic policies promises to make us a third-world country within a generation (China will then become the global power). Bush's 'cowboy capitalism' has made us the largest debtor nation in the history of the world. Bush's "tough" actions only shows his true colors: he is nothing more than an impotent, paranoid, insecure psychopath suffering from "little king" syndrome. \n\nWhat Bush has wrought will force Americans to live a lesser quality of life for generations to come. Within 50 years, the USA will be a two-tier social class: a handful of the very, very rich - and (the rest of us) the very, very poor, just like we see in Haiti and the Dominican Republic today.\n\nThe real tragedy is that there is no bright alternative on the horizon. Even if all the Republic maggots get thrown out, they'll only be replace
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He's a WAR president and he has said that himself.  He likes going to war to resolve his problems.  Ask yourself this.  WHY are we in Iraq?  Did Saddam Hussain have ANYTHING to do with the terror on the USA? He's trying to be like his father.
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chavez is trying to spread the oil wealth of his country to the folk that need it as in health care etc . this guy means well by giving the ordinary people of his country the wealth that is theirs. in his small mind bush thinks pinko so all bets are off   chow
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Personaly, i think bush jus wants there dam oil. And i think he might of been plotting to attck them, but wasnt ready to make a move. But wen the towers were bombed, it gave him a reasone to bomb them back. But hold up. think for a secound. what if it wasnt the iraquis fault. What if the iraquis didnt really hi-jack those plans. What if bush set it all up...hahaha, think about that. OH and watch farenhit 9/11...kik ass movie
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Because Bush is an oil man from an oil family and he mistakenly thought that by attacking Iraq at the expense of 300,000 Iraqi lives and who knows how many more American and coalition lives that he could get control and make more MONEY. Why do you think he is interested in Iran?\n\nIt's about the money stupid!!
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It is quite possible he may never get this oil, directly. What most people believe is that his strong ties to the oil industry, his many contributions from the oil companies, his long and close friendship with the dictatorship in Saudi Arabia, suggests this could be payback to line the pockets of his oil industry buddies.\n\nHalliburton is a perfect example.\n\nI personally think Bush has little moral fiber, but it's hard to imagine he would have four thousand American soldiers die for oil. Can't these people be happy the billions they already have in the bank?\n\nEither he misjudged the resistance to our presence over there or \nhe didn't didn't care. I honestly don't know.