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Originally Posted by YankBro
American's as a whole are fighting the war, not just GOP senators or the Bush family. A few thousand US troops being killed is really a miniscule percentage of war-time losses when looking at the grand-scale objectives at hand. As I remember only one person voted against allowing Bush to use force as a response to 9/11. This included Republicans, Dems and Indies.
The only issue I have with the Iraqi conflict is that we declared open warfare over way too quickly in order to start the gravy train for GOP corporate supporters before the last election started. Soldiers are dying everyday while serving as private security guards for Haliburton (etc) goods and services. I think we could still use a little more bombing and shooting and a little less 'democracy-spreading' if you ask me.
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I beleve the the reason that we were forced into going into open conflict with Iraq so quickly was that France, Germany and Russia were very close to closing their deal with Saddam to begin trading in PetroEuros, as opposed to PetroDollars, which would have deeply hurt the US economy.
As the the Haliburton issue, what people seem to ignore is that Halliburton is the ONLY US corp capable of taking on a project of this magnitude. There is no other in the US that has the resources, needed to rebuild an entire country's infrastructure. This is the same reason that Halliburton was also awarded the contracts after we invaded Kosovo under Clinton.
