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Originally Posted by THEMASKEDRIDER
sure there is a civil war, the thing is if we leave, then the side we dont want to take over, will, and our administration doesnt want that
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Either we stay there forever to prevent this or it is inevitable.
Only other 2 options are:
1) NUKE the entire region - the entire middle east - then when the radiation level allows, go in and get the oil
2) Bring Saddam back from the grave and put him back in power. Sure he was evil but he sure knew how to keep his people in line. The shit that is happening now did not happen with him in power. The majority of the Iraqi people have only know living under a ruthless dictator. Without that, it is like somebody left the keys to the Candy Store open and all of the adults have left town, leaving the kids to do what they will.
It's a fuck up situation and there is no good choice left. If we stay, more of our troops will die for nothing. If we leave, the wrong people will get in power and the Middle East will be fucked as usual. Can't win. But if we stay, we will be in it for a VERY long time and at $2 million a day - we cannot afford it.
I forgot to mention, with that $2 million a minute that we would save by pulling out, come up with as many alternatives to oil that we can come up with and invest in that so we don't care what happens in the Middle East anymore (biofuels, coal to oil, electric cars, plug-in hybrids that get 160 MPG, solar, geothermal, algea into biofuels, etc). We could be energy independant in 5 years if we spend $2 million a minute getting to that point.