Originally posted by Dumb Woob
again, Post by Venge.
b) It has been said that Bush is only doing this for the money, or because he wants to control the oil over there. This is really the opposite of the truth. The USA only gets 17% of its oil from ANY Arab country, and 0% from Iraq. The countries who get oil from Iraq, and who have the most economic ties to Iraq at this point, are who? France, Germany and Russia--the exact three countries who oppose this war the most. THEY are the ones who care only about money and not about morality or the safety of the western world.
Well oil is just one part of it. First of all I doubt that it has anything to do with the Iraqi people suffering or Sadaam having weapons of mass destruction.
Bush has big problems, the US economy is in a pretty bad shape, his ideas just don\'t make any sense. My guess is that the health care and the education aren\'t that good either. So now he has to divert attention, if people are occupied with the war, nobody\'s going to write stories about how bush is driving the wedge between lower and higher classes, making the rich richer, and the poor poorer.
Then the oil, if the US is successfull they will put a dummy government in Iraq and they WILL have the control over the Iraqi oil, and that\'s why Germany and France are opposed to it, it has nothing to do with morality for them either.
Is Sadaam an evil man, yes, but is Bush an idiot, most likely. The guy did too much coke and I think we can all notice that in his speaches. The was with Iraq has nothing to do with 9/11 and Bush is just using it as an excuse, it will probably increase the number of terrorist attacks on the US.
I don\'t know if u\'ve been reading the news but just before the war kids were getting kicked out of schools for speaking out agains it, and a guy got arrested for \"trespassing\" in a mall when he wouldn\'t take off a \"give piece a chance\" t-shirt in a mall.
Now I don\'t know how long this will last but US is in for a quite a ride with Bush.