Re: [privacy] The why of the Iraq War

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

This thread is dead, no politics.

On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 rms () computerbytesman com wrote:

> > > > I personally can't say what it was a war for
>
> To understand the why of the 2003 Iraq War is actually pretty simple. One
> needs to understand history.  In particular, the Reagan adminstration's
> dubious support for Saddam in the Iraq/Iran War of the 1980s.  This photo
> of Rumsfeld's visit to Iraq in 1983 speaks volumes:
>
>    http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blsaddamrumsfeld.htm
>
> The majority of promotors of the 2003 Iraq War (Rumsfeld, Cheney, Perle,
> Wolowitz, etc.) were also former members of the Reagan adminstration.  The
> 2003 Iraq War was simply their revenge after Saddam stabbed them in the
> back by invading Kuwait.  They had to wait 12 years after George Bush Sr.
> refused to take out Saddam in 1991 to get this revenge.
>
> Of course the war is also about oil.  If Iraq didn't have the 2nd largest
> oil reserves in the world, no one would have cared about Saddam.  Not in
> 1981, not in 1991, and not in 2003.
>
> Richard
>
>
> > On 7/21/07, Shyaam <shyaam () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > > Instead of conquering other nations and gaining more money in war,
> >
> > I agree with virtually everything you said, except this statement. Its
> > been shown that we have spent more money running up to and invading
> > Iraq than we could have ever hoped to get out of the oil Iraq
> > possesses. It wasn't a war for oil.
> >
> > I personally can't say what it was a war for - and not being the
> > President or one of his close advisers/confidants, I'll probably never
> > know (nor will anyone else who will most assuredly chime in here) and
> > won't argue for or against anyone's uninformed opinions. However, I
> > don't mind it because I believe that if we pull it off (which becomes
> > more and more unlikely given people's attitudes - not because of
> > anything actually happening on the ground there) the ends way outweigh
> > the means.
>
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