What were our interests in allying with that country in the first place? Really good deals on custom-made Turbans?
And you obviously haven't caught on to our tactics in the Middle East. Butting in and just taking direct control over the oil fields wouldn't be the Politically Correct American Way of handling things. I think we learned our lesson with the American Indians on that one. The key is to antagonize the people in that region to fight against each other, prevent it from establishing, and then offer support to the people we helped cause get into that situation. This works great if our intentions are to keep oil prices down. The only problem is that the people who live in that area start to catch on, and things like Sept. 11 start happening. Adam. > -----Original Message----- > From: Lon Lentz [mailto:lonl@;eximpact.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 3:19 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Dumbya - corporate wh*re > > > First, we would have never gone in against Sadam in the > first place if he > hadn't invaded a nation we had allied ourselves with. > > Second, if he had complied with the agreements he signed at > the end of the > Gulf War, we would not being going in again. All Sadam has > to do is to > comply with > the agreements he signed and with the UN resolutions and > there will be no > war. > > If it was about the oil, we would have pushed in the UN for > allowing Iraq > to > sell more than it is allowed to now. And it's currently the > French that are > in violation of the trade embargo by illegally purchasing Iraqi oil. > > If it was the oil we were going for we would have moved > already, we would > have > layed waste to what remains of Iraq, we would have > eliminated every Iraqi > we > could find and we would set up American companies to pump it with US > military > protection. Iraq would have become another US territory. If > we were after > the oil. > > > <cf_sarcasm> > It's always the Oil. It was American Oil we were > fighting the British off > for. > It was southern Oil the Union was out for. It was European > Oil that drove > us to > commit vast acts of cruelty against the passive, peace > loving Germans. And > the Italians. > We all know what vast supplies the Italians were sitting on. > That Japanese > Oil was > such a draw we nuked them twice to get it. Then there was > all that oil in > Korea > and Vietnam. Not to mention Haiti, Panama, and Granada. That > Beirut Oil was > sure > worth the lives of 200+ Americans!! What a deal. And then > Afghanistan. Boy, > we > cleaned up on that. We should be set for the next 1000 years > with all the > Oil we're > gonna pump out of there. > </cf_sarcasm> > > Has anyone ever stopped to realize that if it was the Oil > we were after, > that we > would have taken the stuff by now? Why did we not take control of the > Kuwaiti fields? > How come we did not make Iraq sign an agreement allowing us > to pump an > unlimited > amount of Oil from their fields in the southern no fly zone? > How come we > didn't force > Iraq to ship us 10 million barrels a day as reparations? How > come we don't > threaten > the middle east with nukes? With the capacity we have for > annihilation, we > should > never pay for another barrel of oil again!! Oops, sorry. > Sarcasm outside of > the > appropriate tag. My bad. > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cantrell, Adam [mailto:Acantrell@;kentlaw.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 3:35 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Dumbya - corporate wh*re > > > <snip> > > Is everyone pretty much ignoring that this whole Iraq thing > is obviously for > the oil? Am I just stating the obvious with that? Do people > actually think > that it's big bad Sadaam that we're after? > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
