Iraq

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Sun Feb 9 11:32:00 CST 2003



prozak at anus.com wrote:
> 
> money is the thing.

What else could it be? Security? Hey, maybe all these folks trying to
figure out what the Bush administration is REALLY UP TO are all full of
shit. Maybe, it's about WMD. Yup, that's what it is. Not as kool as oil,
not as smart as water, not as kold as money, not as purple as power,
surely not as twisted and plotted as that last refuge of the
scoundral--patriotism. When will people stop looking at every war
through the pink colored glasses of Vietnam? 


> 
> there's plenty of oil in this hemisphere; i think this one is a
> political control game to get israel unlimited water so she can
> divorce herself from the palestinian state, something convenient with
> our desire for oil and enforcement in the middle east. my view
> includes the idea that governments are like individuals, and thus all
> of them naturally do all that they can to gain as much power as
> possible. on the global level, this means invading someplace every
> fifteen years and bombing the shit out of it. even if you lose, as in
> viet nam, people look at your villagers peeping out of the craters
> and reconsider messing with the crazy westeners and their high-load
> bombers.



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