--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 10/21/06 3:01:11 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > We are in Iraq for several reasons. One is to open the > oil fields to a free market, democratically elected > and US friendly government. This is just smart > politics and planning for the future. Unfortunately it > isn't working out that way for the US. We should have > listened to the state department, not the defense > department! > > Naaaaa. If we wanted the oil fields of Iraq to flow, all we had to do was > lift sanctions against Saddam which were about to collapse anyway. That oil > would have sold at market prices anyway, making Saddam even wealthier with oil > prices as they are today. The overwhelming reason we are there today is to > create a democracy in a region that is traditionally held by dictators or > absolute monarchies that have a reason to suppress their people and keep them > ignorant and in poverty so as to be able to maintain their own power. This leads > to anger, hostility and hopelessness which gives rise to terrorism. When a > people can have more stake in their own future via a government they control > through elections they are far less likely to want to make war on others so they > can focus on developing their own country and thus less likely to get > involved in supporting terrorism. The State Department was all for maintaining the > status quo which would only perpetuated the current state in the middle east. > Gee, what an enlightened outlook all of a sudden from the US who had no problem currently or previously supporting Mubarak in Egypt- military dictatorship, The House of Saud- oligargical dictatorship, Shah of Iran- dictatorship, and Saddam in Iraq- dictatorship. Ah yes, the freedom we yearn for in the Middle East! Alarming naivete.
The only thing we want in Iraq is a puppet government that gives us reliable access to Iraqi oil, without creating waves in the Middle East. A stable dictatorship would be just fine with Cheney/Bush. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
