These are excellent points. In the case of France though the German
army was a bit more of a challenge than the Iraq army, the French
actually wanted us there. The response we got from the French is what
Bush apparently thought he would get from the Iraqis (sp?).
Unfortunately, he had no equivalent to DeGaul.
I don't agree about not being able to occupy with fire power. That is
no longer true. How many troops were lost invading Japan? He had more
than enough troops to occupy Iraq had he treated it as an enemy instead
of a victim of a dictatorship although he would have been an even bigger
war criminal than he is now.
As for North Korea, I think he had sense enough to know ... OK, the
people around him had sense enough to know, that the North Korean Army
could inflict unacceptable losses on us even if we won and we would risk
"complications" with China. He doesn't fight from principle. As many
in this group have pointed out, he is basically a bully.
Rick
Tom Irwin wrote:
Dear Rick,
What makes you think the U.S. did a good job with the invasion? It was a
major cluster****. Sure we beat up a third world army but failed to send the
forces to close the borders. Iraq is the size of France. We invaded France
in 1944 with about 1 million soldiers, Iraq with 120,000. Infantry is
designed to fight for and hold territory. Our army fought extremely well,
detroyed their army but it simply is too small a force to occupy a country
that size. You can't occupy with firepower, you occupy with manpower. This
is just basic military strategy. Do not think for an instant that I believe
that we invaded to free the Iraqi people. If we really wanted to go after a
really bad dictator where our military is extremely exposed and where there
is a greater national threat, we'ed be in North Korea. Why aren't we there?
There's certainly weapons of mass destruction? WHY? WHY? WHY? There's no oil
there.
Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Littrell
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 4/5/05 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Iraq Invasion - Age of Oil Scarcity
Dear Scott,
I think the thesis here is a bit of a reach. At the time of the
invasion the dollar was not in the shape it is now. In fact one reason
for the decline is the cost of the war. I still lean to the theory
that Sadam was seen as a threat to the region and eventually would
threaten US access to cheep oil by occupying his neighbors. The Bush
administration calculated that it would be cheaper to attack him rather
than contain him. It is a sobering thought that one of the geniuses
that believed this is now head of the world bank. As far as the Euro
vs the dollar, The big energy companies don't care what they get paid
in or by who. At one point one of the companies that wants to drill in
the Arctic admitted they'd probably sell the oil to Japan Rather than
try to pipe it to the lower 48.
Rick
Scott wrote:
How many of us had an "AHA moment" when reading this article?
We now see the real reason for this illegal war [or at least one of the
reasons].
Saddam Hussein was about to be given a clean bill of health by the UN
inspection team beacuse he obviously didn't have WMD's. He was then
going
to open the spigots and start selling oil. Not only was he going to
sell
oil for Euros exacerbating the decline of the dollar, but that would
also
have driven the global price of oil down.
Clearly, EXXON/Mobile, Chevron/Texaco, BP/Amoco et. al. did not want
the
price of oil to go down.
"ExxonMobil Corporation reported the fourth quarter of 2004 as its
highest
quarter ever..."
http://www.npnweb.com/uploads/featurearticles/2005/MarketingStrategies/
0503ms.asp
PEACE
Scott
----- Original Message -----
Instead of inaugurating a new age of cheap oil, the Iraq war may
become
known as the beginning of an era of scarcity.
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