Fundamentalism (General)

by Walter, Friday, November 07, 2008, 12:49 (5861 days ago) @ Carl

Both David and Carl have misread my post. I was the one who mentioned oil (which many sources have identfied as a major factor behind the invasion). After that I wrote: "...or, according to Carl, to take revenge against one man." Your actual statement was: "It appears the only clear objective of the Bush/Cheney administration was revenge against Saddam." - The argument that Saddam already had WMDs was clearly ridiculous. Ask yourselves if you would attack a country led by a brutal dictator who you thought had WMD which he could launch against you within 45 minutes? The only evidence they had was falsified. The so-called "dodgy dossier" typified the UK government's determnation to go ahead, regardless of the truth. As for Al-Quaeda, there wasn't a shred of evidence for that either. So ask yourselves why they made the claim in the first place? - As regards oil, David says the USA only gets 20% of its oil through the Middle East, which he regards as "strong evidence that oil was not the reason." Its not evidence of anything. Iraq has the world's second largest reserves of oil, behind Saudi Arabia. Do you honestly think your goverment didn't consider that? Are they that naive? Or are you? - Whichever way you look at it, downright lies or gross incompetence on such a scale that it would demand immediate resignation if not prosecution, the invasion was a crime against humanity of gigantic proportions. The American and UK governments were told beforehand that it was illegal (log onto 
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6917.htm) 
and they could be charged with war crimes, but they went ahead. And now Bush and Blair ride off heroically into the sunset, leaving a trail of blood behind them.