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Originally Posted by Azure
Polls? You want Obama to make foreign policy decisions based on polls?
Iraq dealing with their own problems would cause civil war. You can keep living under the illusion that it won't. Fact is that the Iraqi Government is NOT ready to take over the country....and until they are it is the responsibility to the US to clean up their own mess.
2 million people died in Vietnam when the US decided to let them deal with their own problems.
But hey, cut and run....surely it must be the best solution.
Look at it this way....with the recent surge, we have reason to be optimistic....and face it, a stable and democratic Iraq would go a LONG ways to solve the problems in the ME. Especially if they can function by themselves.
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I guess I'm of the opinion the US could truly care less about actually implementing a working democracy in Iraq... Which is the assumption you make in your argument. IF the intensions you believe are the case
were the case, the situation would be different. This war is about allowing the US to pillage the Iraq's 125 billion barrels of oil... Everything else is a PR screen. I thought this was common knowledge by now.
The US stands behind their 'spreading democracy' platform and uses it to justify the invasion. I'm sorry, but there's nothing that could be brought forward to nullify the massive coincidence that the US went into a country with the world's second largest oil reserves to 'spread democracy'.
I'm hardly touching on the complexity of the situation, but it's important to understand America's intensions if you're going to argue a long term occupation in Iraq is the best plan for the Iraqi people.
The BBC did a story 2 years ago based off a strategic plan they obtained from the US State Dept. It's worth a quick read through:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programme...ht/4354269.stm
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Questioned by Newsnight, Ms Jaffe said the oil industry prefers state control of Iraq's oil over a sell-off because it fears a repeat of Russia's energy privatisation. In the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, US oil companies were barred from bidding for the reserves.
Ms Jaffe says US oil companies are not warm to any plan that would undermine Opec and the current high oil price: "I'm not sure that if I'm the chair of an American company, and you put me on a lie detector test, I would say high oil prices are bad for me or my company."
The former Shell oil boss agrees. In Houston, he told Newsnight: "Many neo conservatives are people who have certain ideological beliefs about markets, about democracy, about this, that and the other. International oil companies, without exception, are very pragmatic commercial organizations. They don't have a theology."
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