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Now on to the larger issue at hand:
1) Is this war about oil?
a) last time we fought there Saddam started burning the oil wells/fields. How much do you think would be left?
b) saying this potential war is about oil assumes that we'd occupy Iraq afterward and control all the wells for ourselves. You think the rest of the world is going to just let us become the 100% owner of Iraq? Best that can happen here is we can help put a democratic government in place and buy the oil from them.
2) Does this war prevent the next Hitler from happening?
I think we already know Saddam does horrible things, as do many leaders around this world. But which of those leaders can build nukes and more importantly biochem weapons? Which of them would gladly hand them to terrorists? It isn't just the weapons guys, either... it's the development of the virus strains themselves... one coffee can of Anthrax dumped out over NYC from say the top of the Empire State Building would kill a whole lot of people.
So yeah, maybe he'd never build weapons with the range to launch against distant enemies, but all he has to do is start producing enough biotoxins to hand off to the same fucking whackos that would land a plane in a building.
The biggest question here is how do you determine which "evil" leader(s) are that one that would go too far and you have to stop before it happens and which ones are just a Castro type who keep their evils mostly homegrown...
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