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MisterOpus1
Grumpy Old Fart

Registered: Dec 2001
Location: Kansas City
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| quote: | Originally posted by imokruok
Whatever happened to "no blood for oil"? That was a pretty cool catchphrase for a while. Until people started to realize that the US wasn't there to steal. ($10 billion in oil revenues added to the Iraqi Infrastructure Fund over the past 6 months...) |
The "war about oil" cry really was narrowed down to a selected small group of Bush/coorporate-hatin' conspiracists. It may have shared a little more popularity at one point with a few others, but I think common sense prevailed in the end on the true intent for this war.
To think that oil DIDN'T play a role in the decision, however, is not merely ignorant, it is a falsehood. But I could never believe it to be the primary motive for war.
| quote: | | I don't blame the rest of the world though. When the Europeans had the power to fight wars abroad, they never stayed to fight on behalf of those they had colonized. I guess perhaps they're a little miffed that that's what the US has done in every major war it's ever fought. |
What is this, Revisionist History day? How far back do we have to look to see our cut-'n-run war tactics? Umm, how 'bout Gulf War I with Bush's papa?
How 'bout Vietnam?
These were major wars, weren't they?
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Whence September dusk grows crisper still,
with leaves all crimson conquered,
I yearn to shout,
and dance about,
and stick pickles in my honker...
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