Democratic Underground Latest Greatest Lobby Journals Search Options Help Login
Google

The real reason we invaded Iraq...

Printer-friendly format Printer-friendly format
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend
Printer-friendly format Bookmark this thread		 This topic is archived.
Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (01/01/06 through 01/22/2007) Donate to DU
 
Tom Bombadil Donating Member (175 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 04:20 AM
Original message
The real reason we invaded Iraq...
>snip

"As we gain distance on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, America's waning enthusiasm for nation-building only strengthens the impression that the neocons were naive idealists manipulated to window-dress a much simpler and more brutal post-9/11 imperative: Afghanistan and Iraq offered opportunities for revenge and for spectacles of US power designed to assuage the wounded pride of the American people. The wars have not made the world a safer or better place because that was not their aim."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1729399,00.html


Not oil, not for democracy. Misdirected revenge - pure and simple
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
wake.up.america Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 04:23 AM
Response to Original message
1. That's even worse. Billions thrown away, lives destroyed, ill will...
all this for revenge??

Perhaps Bush is sicker than I thought.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Oversea Visitor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 04:24 AM
Response to Original message
2. Tell that to all the death people.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Oversea Visitor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 04:25 AM
Response to Original message
3. How sick need world be
Reason keep changing
Noone seems to know reasons
We mad or something.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 04:25 AM
Response to Original message
4. I think they wanted to create chaos that will last as long as possible
they thrive financially in a chaotic environment.

I think Iraq, especially, has become far more volatile than they expected

Their aim in Iraq was, in large part, to take Iraq's oil offline (effectively) reducing world supply and jacking profits for king george's Saudi and Kuwaiti buddies.

Then, later, they can (they thought) restore "order" and bring Iraq's oil back online. By then, it would be firmly under the control of king george's oil bidniz buddies (or their puppets), and it would be king george's (Unka Dick's) turn to rake in the dough.

Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-13-06 04:38 AM
Response to Original message
5. The world has got the picture of men in action...
Their make-believe fantasies are a world away from the garrison democracy increasingly suborned by the warlords they've installed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Bush's "free society" and Blair's democracy is, in reality, the most efficient narco-economy in the world. As you read, the new shoots of opium poppies are being nurtured by the spring sunshine over 320,000 acres, promising a bumper crop. Ninety per cent of Europe's heroin now comes from Afghanistan. These two world leaders have so prostituted words such as democracy and freedom that they have lost all meaning.


The Hague is waiting for those that must meet their destiny...
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon May 13th 2024, 02:44 PM
Response to Original message
Advertisements [?]
 Top

Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (01/01/06 through 01/22/2007) Donate to DU

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators

Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.

Home  |  Discussion Forums  |  Journals |  Store  |  Donate

About DU  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy Policy

Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.

© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC