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. 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/
