BartSimpson BartSimpson:
Zipperfish Zipperfish:
All wars may be about power--that doesn't make all wars morally equivalent. This was an agressive war aimed, among other things, at removing an irritant to the US, expanding US hegemony in the area and securing access to oil for the US. Itw as sold as a philanthroipic war dsespite the fact that it is ebidenbt mnow that the war was based on a bunch of lies. It's just sad that the American people, for all their talk of their vaunted freedom, are as easily manipulated by their masters as the Chinese.
Who the hell are you and what did you do with Zip?
Seriously, I've never expected you to start filling your posts with talking points from the psycho ward of the left.
The majority of Iraqi oil still is parcelled out according to the contracts extant on this 2004 chart so I'm unsure where you got the idea that the US invaded to secure oil for ourselves. The USA is the #26 recipient of Iraq oil according to the UN.
Not only that, my post was completely garbled (I was on my way out the door). Anyways, psycho left stuff though it may be, I've never really changed my position that the Iraq War was based on lies and was never meant to benefit the Iraqi people.
And keep in mind that it's not only the left that is irritaed with George Bush and his cadre of liars and incompetents, but the right as well. After all, war is not a private enterprise. It comes out of the pockets of US taxpayers most of whom, I'm sure, could have put to other uses the thousands of dollars that Bush took from their pockets to wage a war for his oil buddies. Not to mention his attack on freedom in the name of security and his generally wastrel ways with taxpayers' money.
As for it being about oil--I'm in good company. Alan Greesnpan said as much last September. I wasn't aware that Alan Greenspan was a member of the loony left. The war clearly was not about Al Qeada or WMD. Reconstrcution contracts went solely to supporters of the Iraq invasion--and that's done wonders for Halliburton stocks. But the reason isn't so much instant access to Iraqi oil as it is a permannent military presence near the Strait of Hormuz.