If you bought into it being solely about oil, no, you're right it doesn't make a ton of sense. To be totally honest with you, I don't think it was about oil itself. That's why I don't get into these debates much... because no reason makes a lick of sense to me. Not the conspiracy theories, not the government explanations... frankly, the whole thing feels to me like one of the horrible blow out fights my husband and I have once a year when my hormones peak on exactly the wrong day. Where you can't pinpoint what brought it on, can't find the right explanation, you're just pissed and want to punch someone and scream for days on end. It simply has to be taken out on someone.
Alan Greenspan claims Iraq war was really for oil
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If you bought into it being solely about oil, no, you're right it doesn't make a ton of sense. To be totally honest with you, I don't think it was about oil itself. That's why I don't get into these debates much... because no reason makes a lick of sense to me. Not the conspiracy theories, not the government explanations... frankly, the whole thing feels to me like one of the horrible blow out fights my husband and I have once a year when my hormones peak on exactly the wrong day. Where you can't pinpoint what brought it on, can't find the right explanation, you're just pissed and want to punch someone and scream for days on end. It simply has to be taken out on someone.
If that were the case, Venezuela would have been a much more sensible and lucrative target. Heck, even Nigeria would easier.
This war is about Jihad. Terrorists are blowing things up all over the world. Are they pissed off about Algerian foreign policy too?
Don't accuse me of things I don't do, we've never had this conversation before. Go ahead prove your slant drilling theory and Saddam Husseins charitable work. :roll:
There is nothing to lookup. Saddam Hussein gave money to terrorists. Period. And Kuwait NEVER slant drilled into anywhere!!!! It's all in your head. Go ahead and prove it and stop diverting attention.
P.S. I never had WMD's in Iraq. :lol:
Exactly, it was never about oil. There is a bigger picture, the oil theory is for the crows.
Ok, here's the same bet I made to the other right wing cowards on this forum before: I will yet again post the same link which proves Saddam gave money to what is called ''shahid'' or witnesses just as did the Saudis and Qataris.
But I will do so only if you leave the forum for keeps.
How about it? Are you going to cower away like the other right wingers or will you finally accept the challenge?
It's time to put up or shut the f@ck up.
How about it??
But I will do so only if you leave the forum for keeps.
How about it? Are you going to cower away like the other right wingers or will you finally accept the challenge?
It's time to put up or shut the f@ck up.
How about it??
You are so thick. Saddam agreed to allow UN inspectors into Iraq to stop the bombing after Saddam invaded Kuwait. Later,SADDAM,said NO I don't want inspectors in my country anymore. In fact,I will gamble my people's lives that everyone will back down to my massive ego. Saddam gambled his country and lost. And now years later the anti-bush morons try to twist the facts and rather than go back and find the truth,thier immaturity keeps them on the same old lie. No WMD's,Bush lied. Well that is the big lie. Bush went in because that evil bastard Saddam wanted to renege on the original deal and did not want inspectors to look for any weapons. Saddam could have allowed the UN to have access,but he chose to roll the dice. Saddam is responsible for this debacle not the U.S..
I don't know that that's necessarily true either ITN. Very rarely, in these big blow out fights, is there any one particular thing at work. Often, you get focused on something that's set you off (eg, dishes or WMDs), and even those fighting don't realize what the real factors were (like fatigue or irritation over oil supply) that set them off.
That's horsesh*t Wally and it's not the point here. The point is the money given to shahids issue that ITN is running away from.
Bush started the war and is responsible for it, not Saddam. But that's a separate issue.
Bush started the war and is responsible for it, not Saddam. But that's a separate issue.
ITN calls me an asshole but I'll overlook it if he is (wo)man enough to back up his/her word with action.
Here's your proof:
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Archive/Articles/2000/MFAH0iq20
Good bye --- you won't be missed.
Here's your proof:
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Archive/Articles/2000/MFAH0iq20
Good bye --- you won't be missed.
I'm waiting for your posts that "proves" me wrong.
Throw in the slant drilling "evidence" while you're at it, kill two birds with one stone.
My my look who is using an Israeli source to make a point, I'm impressed.
Here's a better one for you, another Israeli source BTW.
Even as President George W. Bush and CIA Director George Tenet lay out the evidence of Iraq's operational ties to al-Qaeda terrorists, new documents seized by Israel from Yasser Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah and other terrorist operational centers in the West Bank show in extraordinary detail how Iraq has been funding terror and mayhem against Israeli civilians during the last two years.
Among Saddam's victims have been U.S. and European citizens who were visiting Israel. And yet for some reason, as with the evidence showing Iraq's alliance with al-Qaeda, few Western reporters have been willing to pay attention. A notable exception was a report aired Sept. 29 by CBS 60 Minutes correspondent Leslie Stahl. Citing captured documents provided by the Israelis, she revealed that Saddam's closest deputy, Vice President Taha Yasin Ramadan, personally had signed checks made out to Palestinian terrorist leaders who had organized suicide-bombing attacks.
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http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_41_18/ai_95358025/pg_1
You're so pathetic, you wouldn't change your mind if 3 tons of evidence slapped you in the face.
You would rather believe a murdering tyrant because you hate Bush and his ilk. You're a typical loonie leftist, thank goodness you all are a minority.
GOOD BYE, ITN!!
Now that you will have some extra time on your hand, think over your hatred for America.
ta, ta!