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Can anyone give a positive reason to escalate in Iraq? Anyone? (Original Post)
grahamhgreen
Jun 2014
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arcane1
(38,613 posts)1. Could it drive up oil prices, or affect who has access to it, and how reliable that access is?
If so, it could be seen as "positive" for the very small number of people who profit from such things.
That's all I got.
840high
(17,196 posts)2. I don't even have that.
JEB
(4,748 posts)3. Good for the munitions and casket businesses.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)4. because it's rope-a-dope! (somehow...) nt
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)5. Well we could make the rich richer.
Haven't they suffered enough.
Chan790
(20,176 posts)6. We'll be greated as liberators!
If we keep saying it, it'll be true eventually.
Right?
right?
[font size="1"]right?[/font]
(Nope. I got nothing.)
Armstead
(47,803 posts)7. Nope, but I feel sick for the decent people there
Nuthing we can do to stop the assholishness that is destroying their country, as it has in so many places.
But it sucks.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)8. To steal more oil and murder more innocent civilians
nt