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Re:current events - whats your opinion
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Date: 2008/03/26 16:36
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By: Halfandhalf491
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It seems rather redundant to comment on some aspects of our occupation of Iraq so i will attempt to bring some new ideas and facts to the table. Obviously our motives for entering the nation were in no way to liberate a people suffering under a totalitarian government but rather to fulfill the bush administration's personal vendetta. In all seriousness the Weapons of Mass Destruction as false as they were, were apparently fabricated by Hussein himself in order to show a little muscle flex to the rest of the Arab world. However, this in no way is reason enough to invade a nation, but rather a stepping off point for speculation. If the United Nations was permitted to finish its weapons inspection they would have found that there were no long range missiles but only the weapons that the members of the United Nations (including the US) had provided Iraq with years before, in the hopes of gaining an edge in the stand off against Iran. Unfortunately, living in a nation that has a character of expediting things, we found ourselves in a war, of course with the help of an absent-minded congress and a belligerent and uninformed administration. Ironically despite the whole weapons of mass destruction situation, somehow people seemed to forget that Bush Sr. was the reigning president during our first Gulf War, in which he had pledged to rid the Iraqi nation of Saddam however only found himself capable of crushing the country's military forces in Kuwait. Now isn't it just plain uncanny that his son would seem to continue the same policy in his administration. Surprise, surprise, however we cannot blame the American people for failing to realize this for our nation was plagued with a fear of terrorism after 9/11. We were a angry, hurt, and vulnerable, who were susceptible to lies and extreme actions from our government. We allowed the government to go to extremes because they used the slogan of 9/11 to justify their actions. We believed in them for we had been a nation thrust into a world struggle in which he had been for so long separated. On a final note i cannot finish without of course giving credit to oil the source of modern life. Despite all the progressive reforms of the 1900s we still remained tied to the industries in our highest levels of government. Therefore, another cause for this war was oil, black crude oil. There is no hiding it, for as a nation, it is a fact that we are dependent on it, and for the nation to spend millions of taxpayers dollars and to send thousands of our own Americans to Iraq to put their lives on the line, oil is the only justification. Overall, the whole situation is a hot mess, in which there is no simple solution in sight.
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