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Originally Posted by Azure
And because of those comments I can look upon what you read and approach it with an open mind. But the minute someone starts hammering out conspiracy theories or "blood for oil" nonsense, I quit reading it.
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Agreed. One of the things that bothers me about this debate is that it seems like either one is in favour of the Bushies' foreign policy, or one believes in a vast global conspiracy of the powerful, which is a bit goofy. That's not to say "mini-conspiracies" don't exist, but the extreme left's "blood for oil" angle on this conflict doesn't (if you'll forgive the expression) hold a lot of water.
But on the other hand it's pretty clear that Wolfowitz and the New American Century folks wanted into Iraq for years before 9/11--and saw that attack as the opportunity they needed to create the right political environment to make this war possible. I think they're now learning that their actual objectives are pretty far off, though--it's more incompetence than a conspiracy.