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Originally Posted by August
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Originally Posted by Skybird
Wake up to reality, August. You are still dreaming, hoping the dream will last forever. It won't.
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And what dream is that Sky? I don't think anyone, except the Europeans, ever thought our intention was to make Iraq the 51st state.
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No, not a 51st state, but a stronghold of American influence in the centre of global oil production, and a dominant role of american oil companies in the Iraqi business, as well as trying to start a chain reaction that would spread democracy - in the exclusive american definition - in the region: again, of course dominated by american power, in a way so that it's presence would appear to be inevitable and in the best intrest of the loacal people, so that they would not even think to question about the US presence. If you are seen as a welcomed guest, it is less likely you will be critizised as an imperial power, even when bringing the oil industry under your control by influencing coinstitutions nand laws that would maximize economical advabatges for the Us, but leaves losses and risks to the Iraqis and minimizes the benfits their society would gain from these incomes.
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I've said it here more than once. If Iraq comes out of this as a functioning democracy then great, but I was happy with just removing Saddam and his henchmen from power.
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And obviously you do not care a bit of how big the price of that is. Maybe because you do not need to pay it. The misery of the Iraqis is not your concern. And when in the longrun the Iraq war will feed back with more open terror than it has ever prevented, it will not be the US being struck first, for you are far away in the other side of the globe, safely guarded by two big oceans on both sides of your country. Europe will catch up the blast first (as if we do not already have anough trouble with the many bad consequences we trigger ourselves...). You wanted your Saddam-removal party, but others behind you need to do the clean.
Your happiness is no reason for war. What your president before gave as reasons for war, and what it has come down to today, and that you "happily" accept to trigger even more violance by your simple presence (although meanwhile it has been made very clear that the majoiirty, the clear majority, of both Sunnis and Shias do not want you to stay) although you have no more chance to reach all what you claim so proudly you want to reach - stability, security, etc etc etc - this is what it is about in the present. Beside that, you risk the life of countrymen of yours all for nothing - by sticking to illusions. Every soldier's ego is hurt to admit he has been defeated, directly or by a mission lost. but it is the case. The objectives can no longer be reached, not this year and not in five years and not in ten. you lost. Your prize is an Iraq that sooner or later will fall the major Shia orhtodox influence, Iran, will be destabilized increasingly (even when being split), will turn into a second Lebanon, and then will be what Bush said in 2003 it already were, but as a matter fo fact was not : a sponsor and major source of international terrorism. You have reached all that you wanted to prevent. You haven't reached any of the official objectives given before the war, escpeically with reagdr to WMDs. Situation is detoriating constantly. When was the first time I said it is detoriating? Must be roughly two years ago. Since then things went down. Iraqis try to flee the country by the thousand. The saudis are building a fence to keep out the masses of refugees they expect in the future. high ranking US militaries having serbed in Iraq have indirectly critised the Iraq policy over the last six months. highest ranking British general today has openly attacked the reasonability of the Iraq war and it'S objectives. the place is a chaos, a place of civil war (you don't acdcept that term, too, don'T you?). Religious extremism and Shia orthoxy is rising faster than you can run. Iran is strengthening it's basis in Iraq. But all that you more or less ignore, and insist on finishing the mission, and leaving not before your socalled objectives are acchieved.
Have I made myself clear what I mean when I said you are dreaming?