god you people piss me off... There are alot more interests in the region than oil (Israel anyone?) but that's not the point. You act like oil is something bad to protect, like we could go on living our lives with oil. I've got news for you buddy, oil is important, **** IMPORTANT. If some like ohh OPEC for instance decided to **** with us (because we have grown weak and flabby b/c of people like you) and double or triple the price of our oil we'd be screwed. Not just because it would cost two or three time the cash to go drive and see grandma. It would be the massive cost-push inflation, job losses, higher heating costs. It might even kill people in places like the north east where oil is used for heating....oil was the only us interest we were protecting //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif
god you people piss me off... There are alot more interests in the region than oil (Israel anyone?) but that's not the point. You act like oil is something bad to protect, like we could go on living our lives with oil. I've got news for you buddy, oil is important, **** IMPORTANT. If some like ohh OPEC for instance decided to **** with us (because we have grown weak and flabby b/c of people like you) and double or triple the price of our oil we'd be screwed. Not just because it would cost two or three time the cash to go drive and see grandma. It would be the massive cost-push inflation, job losses, higher heating costs. It might even kill people in places like the north east where oil is used for heating....
For god's sake, OIL IS WORTH FIGHTING OVER.... especially since the hippies have deemed the lives of some caribou more important than human life.... or the pristine views of the ocean more important than human life... or the whiney bitches who got the government to stop building nuclear power plants.... If we where allowed to find our own oil and energy by reasonable means we might not be in this war.
Sigh, you are so narrow minded. The WMDs were a sales pitch, and a perfectly good reason to invade. Why would we invade Iraq? Well because it's right smack dab in the middle of Syria and Iran, two countries that are way more important to have a tight chain on. The oil doesn't hurt, but if we where just in it for oil all we would have to do is lift the embargo, but we are too principled for that, we actually care about human rights and such.we invaded iraq because our leaders thought (or told us they did anyway) he had weapons of mass destruction. north korea has been saying for years they intended to make these weapons, and now they have them, yet we do nothing but as you say "watch them."
how about iran, they dont seem to be very friendly lately? did your usaf colonel uncle inform you that saddam actually agreed to our terms before we invaded?
I guess you don't really understand geopolitics //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gifi saw no threat from iraq.
wow... just wow. people actually intelligent enough to see through SOME of our governments bullshit, yet stupid enough to support what they're really doing?
It's always really easy to tell who really takes freedom for granted.
You consider you being able to fill up your gas tank withFreedom has to be truly threatened to justify invading another soveriegn nation.
yah, some of what they do is bullshit... but that doesn't stop them from being one of the best, most fair, least corrupt, and effective governments on the planet. You don't even know what real corruption is because you have blinders on from living the cushiest life available on the planet... even if you are the poorest of Americans.wow... just wow. people actually intelligent enough to see through SOME of our governments bullshit, yet stupid enough to support what they're really doing?
//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif :laugh:even if you are the poorest of Americans.