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In reply to the discussion: Wondering if anyone here agrees with me about why we went into Iraq [View all]MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)45. Saddam was going to switch to the Euro.
And that would have hurt the owners. Secondly, it was a good way for the cronies to loot the treasury. It was also to affect policy here at home. Massive war expenditures and giant tax cuts force us into austerity.
All these things are the owners' plan to take everything that's left to wring out of this country before they abandon it completely.
That's why 9/11 happened.
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Wondering if anyone here agrees with me about why we went into Iraq [View all]
senseandsensibility
Feb 2013
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Destabilization of the Middle East, oil/energy control, defense contracts, increased pentagon
TwilightGardener
Feb 2013
#1
In their noblest delusions, they were trying to advance civilization. ie, big picture, long term.
Voice for Peace
Feb 2013
#15
Control and manipulation of supply for multinational oil and energy companies--
TwilightGardener
Feb 2013
#31
Exactly. So many defense contracting companies, so few wars to profit from at the time
Blaukraut
Feb 2013
#43
^ This ^ helped provide cover for bankrupting the government, long a Repub goal.
magellan
Feb 2013
#48
Because of a personal grudge, same as Ross Perot had a personal grudge in 1992
graham4anything
Feb 2013
#27
The same reason we went to Vietnam and Afghanistan. "Tough on Bogeymen" political PR.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Feb 2013
#28
1) Oil; 2) One more piece in the ring around Iran...which is still the NeoCons' #1 target. nt.
OldDem2012
Feb 2013
#36
We went to war in Iraq, to give some focus to the lackluster Bush administration and
meti57b
Feb 2013
#40
The Greg Palast theory: Controlling the oil futures market: The price of oil.
lindysalsagal
Feb 2013
#50
They were already building up the military long before 911 - cheney and rumsfeld
2Design
Feb 2013
#55