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Originally Posted by Lanny_MacDonald
Something being lost here is the reasons for America to be in Iraq. Would anyone like to take a kick as to WHY they are there? Someone care to outline the real reasons for being there?
Also, on a related and slightly different angle, why did Al Qaeda do what they did? Why did they attack the WTC? What was their motivation? Was it related to?
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http://www.calgarypuck.com/forum/sho...875#post327875
http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/ne...430-psab01.htm
in an earlier post in an earlier thread, al-quaeda has always stated its goal as forcing the US out of saudi arabia, and guess what happened.
as for america's reasons to be in iraq,
http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2006/0...e_of_the_.html
keeping white trash down where they belong
http://www.newamericancentury.org/Re...asDefenses.pdf
keeping AIPAC happy
keeping the price of oil nice and high
keeping strategic foothold
keep terrorists in business
drain the people of tax money, stright into the right pockets
maybe even spark a next wave of terror attacks on the US, that'd be groovy!
as for the oil bourse thing (iraq selling oil in euros, not dollars) - put that one down as a maybe, i'm not sure the 5% top of american aristocracy would be so bad off if the economy collapsed, the brunt of the old money would be fine.
there's millions of reasons to invade iraq, and not one of them makes america, or anyone, safer.
and really, if you're put there by lobbyists, and kept there by fear, why NOT invade iraq?