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"I see statements like this all the time and I still don't understand how the war in Iraq and Afghanistan is about the freedom in the United States? What freedom is threatened?"
I read a few years ago that the reason china didn't start a war with the US is due to strategic oil reserves. china could 'field' their military for 3 days on the reserve that they had on hand while the US could go for 6 months.... now think about that in terms of control of oil fields etc...or suppose we stepped out and Russia and china took control of the oil feilds... how much do you think oil would cost he US? how long do you think it would take for the stuff to come crashing down and Iran to exerting 'religious' pressure in the area? and believe me I'm totally in favor of telling the whole middle East to fuck off and speak to us again and lose our phone number. I think with what we spend on that fucked up area of the planet it would be cheaper to pay $300 a barrel for oil myself.
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