and if anybody believes our invasion of afghanistan and irag had anything to do with anything other than oil...you're a fucking moron.
Originally Posted by Juan Pablo de Marco
yep it was about Oil. Black Gold. Texas Tea.
Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid
+1MM
That does not mean Bush lied. He used WMD's as the means to move the public towards going to war. The public was not willing to go to war over oil. So one could say Bush decieved his true intentions for going to War. I still do not think he lied about WMD's, I think he thought they were there. Powell sure did , that poor bastard was made to look the fool. A Modern Day house boy with that UN presentation!
A few things; if the Gulf war was all about oil (I mean the second Gulf war, I don't know what was behind the first Gulf war) then why didn't we occupy the oil fields and just let the rest go to hell? There is no oil in Afghanistan you know.
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Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
WE did let the rest go to hell! How soon you forget.
We then realized that they were not going to welcome us as liberators and then we occupied. Of course our contractors got huge contracts in that region.
As far as the first Gulf War, Saddam thought we would not intervene. But Saudi and the rest of the Gulf States thought better of it.