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Originally Posted by Icon
I agree. It's only too bad that Iraq will be pillaged for resources and left to fend for themselves. If all proceeds were to be re-invested into Iraq, this would be a VERY different affair. Unfortunately, this nation is being sold off in chunks. Ultimate model (Manifestation?) of privitization. where does that leave the citizens? Naomi Klien wrote a very insightful article in Iraq about the reality - Factories cannot get materials, workers are laid off, 'insurgents' (people who want dignity and food) rise. you can't leave citizens out of the process. by allowing outside people (Haliburton and other multinationals) to set up shop and exclude the very people they 'set free'.
But I agree. Bush did what he said he would. I wish he hadn't lied about the reasons.
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Christ. More ill-informed drivel.
The country is not going to be "pillaged" as you say. Nor are the Iraqis going to be left to fend for themselves. Iraq has never had a major manufacturing base. "Insurgents" are not looking for dignity and food - they want to install an Islamic Caliphate in which women are oppressed and Jews and Christians are made into virtual slaves.
The main reason for the invasion was regime change. This was not given as the main reason, because the Governments calculated (rightly, as it happens), that a large part of their populations would be too dumb to understand.