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genderhazard · 08-09-2008

Iraq was unfinished business. I don't know why people try to tie Iraq to 911 beyond they were state sponsor of terrorism.

On 9/11/2001 Our troops were tied up with enforcing UN resolutions, while the UN implement oil for food programe was undermined by the U.N. itself.

The Oil for Food program suffered from widespread corruption and abuse. Throughout its existence, the programme was dogged by accusations that some of its profits were unlawfully diverted to the government of Iraq and to UN officials. These accusations were made in many countries, including the US and Norway.

It is estimated that as much as $10 billion to $21.3 billion went unaccounted for and/or was directed to Saddam Hussein and his government in the form of kickbacks and oil smuggling.

Russia, France, and China were the lead violater of the programme giving kickbacks to Iraq.

Not surprizing then that these UN Security council countries supported of efforts to lift the UN-imposed sanctions against Iraq and were also against the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq. Since there no votes prevented a UN collition from dealing with Iraq.

Once Iraq was defeated we should have taken out Syria as well.

Iran is responsible for the IED's that kill our Peacekeeping force now in Iraq. There is no question that Iran needs to be dealt with. And they are going to be if not by the US than by Israel at which point all hell will break loose in the region. (Which is one reason we need to drill for oil here.)

The problem with the War is we did not maintain SHOCK and AWE, We went into Iraq with Shock and Awwww.

We are a very kind people. We give out enemy every advantage. We go to great lenghts and expense to avoid injuring innocent people. We could make very devistating low cost dumb bombs and Carpet Bomb, like we did in Germany and Japan. Heck we could just Nuke'em from here. But we don't.

We could overrun Pakastan, the mountains pose a problem, but poison gas would wipe out anyone hiding in the caves. But we respect there borders. Saudi Arabia would probably be the last to be attcked, I'm sure it was hopped that by being in Iraq in a War situation would draw out the Saudis who wanted trouble into Iraq. Yet one more reason to have it be a staging ground.

I know copypasta tl;dr -

Don't let facts get in your way TrunKated.

liveordie83 said Bush and Chenney are billionaries because of this war. Clearly that is Untrue.
I demostrate that with Data not opinion.

You think we went to War with the wrong Country, I'm fair minded. What is the right country you want us to kick the crap out of?

08-09-2008	#42
genderhazard Spell I bought is work'n Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 4,095	Re: McCain bashed by Paris Hilton Iraq was unfinished business. I don't know why people try to tie Iraq to 911 beyond they were state sponsor of terrorism. On 9/11/2001 Our troops were tied up with enforcing UN resolutions, while the UN implement oil for food programe was undermined by the U.N. itself. The Oil for Food program suffered from widespread corruption and abuse. Throughout its existence, the programme was dogged by accusations that some of its profits were unlawfully diverted to the government of Iraq and to UN officials. These accusations were made in many countries, including the US and Norway. It is estimated that as much as $10 billion to $21.3 billion went unaccounted for and/or was directed to Saddam Hussein and his government in the form of kickbacks and oil smuggling. Russia, France, and China were the lead violater of the programme giving kickbacks to Iraq. Not surprizing then that these UN Security council countries supported of efforts to lift the UN-imposed sanctions against Iraq and were also against the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq. Since there no votes prevented a UN collition from dealing with Iraq. Once Iraq was defeated we should have taken out Syria as well. Iran is responsible for the IED's that kill our Peacekeeping force now in Iraq. There is no question that Iran needs to be dealt with. And they are going to be if not by the US than by Israel at which point all hell will break loose in the region. (Which is one reason we need to drill for oil here.) The problem with the War is we did not maintain SHOCK and AWE, We went into Iraq with Shock and Awwww. We are a very kind people. We give out enemy every advantage. We go to great lenghts and expense to avoid injuring innocent people. We could make very devistating low cost dumb bombs and Carpet Bomb, like we did in Germany and Japan. Heck we could just Nuke'em from here. But we don't. We could overrun Pakastan, the mountains pose a problem, but poison gas would wipe out anyone hiding in the caves. But we respect there borders. Saudi Arabia would probably be the last to be attcked, I'm sure it was hopped that by being in Iraq in a War situation would draw out the Saudis who wanted trouble into Iraq. Yet one more reason to have it be a staging ground. I know copypasta tl;dr - Don't let facts get in your way TrunKated. liveordie83 said Bush and Chenney are billionaries because of this war. Clearly that is Untrue. I demostrate that with Data not opinion. You think we went to War with the wrong Country, I'm fair minded. What is the right country you want us to kick the crap out of?