Originally Posted by crockett

I could support what we are doing in the middle east, if it was being done for human rights reasons. I don't think any people should have to live under an oppressive govt of non elected officials.

I mean some of these countries over there do some pretty fucked up shit, chopping of people heads, hands and so on.. Stoning people to death, I mean that shit rivals what was going on in mid evil Europe. So I can totally support regime change if it done to protect the people and to give them freedom, but the people have to want the change.

What we are currently doing in the middle east has nothing to do with people, freedom and human rights, but only about money and power. What is happening in Iraq is nothing short of plans to keep the US as the main world super power.

The one who controls oil, controls the world. As it sits oil can only be sold in US dollars, which means all countries have to use the US dollar to buy oil. This keeps the US dollar as the defacto currency world wide. Iraq was attempting to sell oil in Euros which would have opened the door for other countries to use the Euro instead of the Dollar. Which would have slowly caused the US dollar to lose power world wide.

Notice the first thing that happened when we took over Iraq, was to change Iraqi oil sales back to US dollars.