Protestantism

» pink101 - Containment

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I completely and utterly reject the ultra-left 'spin' on this situation, namely that the US is engaged in some greedy occupation of a nation that was better off under Saddam Hussein. With all due respect, that view is based on anti-American propaganda and it should be rejected.
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That's an example of the "Straw Man" argument you talk about from time to time, right?
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What is goind on in Iraq at the moment is that the United States is involved in an occupation of a sovereign nation. More than that, our government is establishing a precedent for using mercenary forces, so-called contract security forces. I well recall the magazines and newspapers dedicated to private military forces that were being developed on the East Coast here in the United States. I knew some men that got interested in that and two of them joined up as I recall. I don't know that the name of the organization was Blackwater; there was more than one such group. It was a White Power group and I think most of the work they were getting was on the African continent.
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Go figure! If you have a built a very large business with hundreds of millions of dollars invested in it and you're getting contracts and making money on some present needs, what happens when there is no further need? Anyone that doesn't recognize the fact that Blackwater and the other "War Contractors" have great investments in continuing this occupation is, pretty much, out of their mind.
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Simple logic.
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-- posted by pink101