--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], MDixon6569@ wrote: > > > > In a message dated 10/21/06 3:01:11 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > > drpetersutphen@ 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. >
Don't assume that Bush and Cheney and company aren't patriots who want what is best for the country. A far more realistic appraisal of their thought processes is that they created a plan to democratize the Middle East more than 10 years ago using assumptions that few people agreed with back then, and have refused to reassess their assumptions since. Oil, military bases, etc., are all involved in this plan and may drive it or be driven by it (or both) in some convoluted fashion, but the plan is the thing: the holy thing. And it can't be touched because the same fundamentalism that drives Bush and company in their Christianity drives them in their foreign and domestic policies as well: they ARE on a mission from God. 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/
