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» paper_turtle - Nonsense

Brian wrote:
With all due respect, your post is full of left-wing, extremist propaganda nonsense.
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Hardly. What Migisi said about the US going into Iraq with no *apparent* motive is not false. The Bush administration's allegations of huge stockpiles of WMD's has been proven to be fabrication. There is also evidence that Bush was planning to go to war in Iraq before he was sworn into office. A large percentage of the American public agrees with the sentiments Migisi has expressed (including me).
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The United States is not colonizing Iraq.
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If the United States were colonizing Iraq and all Bush wants is profits for Big Oil, then what the US SHOULD do is Seize ALL - not most, but ALL - of the oil for ourselves -- and continue to do so until the fields are DRY! Leave nothing for the Iraqi people.
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But, that's NOT what we're doing. Which means we're either stupid and incompetent colonizers OR we had different motives for going in there.
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Although colonization implies economic exploitation, the fact is that a colonized country is one under the political governance of another--without choice. Did the people or Iraq send a petition to Washington begging the US to come and save them?
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The US would never seize all the oil for themselves because it would be political suicide on a world-wide scale. The US government has to be a lot more sutble than that, otherwise they'd lose all their allies, and they don't have many left as it is.
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peace and love,
Paper Turtle

-- posted by paper_turtle