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critchmj Donating Member (89 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-05 01:36 PM
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20. I believe there were 2 reasons we went in.
1) Is the oil. Cheney wanted the control of the oil and bring OPEC to heel. If we hadn't gotten "bogged" down in the occupation, Iran would have been next for their oil supplies and then Saudi Arabia would been brought into line.

2)Wolfowitz, Feith, Perle, the neocons in the Pentagon wanted to protect Israel, or fight their war against the Arab States. We would have had "regime" change in Syria at some stage.

Cheney, Rumsfeld, et. al. had wanted to overthrow Sadaam after Iraq I, but daddy Bush said no for the very thing that we see happening now. The boy just isn't too bright and went along with his daddy's friends. After all they had bailed him out of every mess he'd gotten in before.

And yes they were all too stupid to realize that daddy was right.
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