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Originally posted by Cal
http://nytimes.com/2002/10/11/opinion/11KRIS.html
http://nytimes.com/2002/10/11/opinion/11KRUG.html
For those of you who feel current US policy is not financially motivated. Here's another quote from a Times article on current US plans for Iraq:
"It would put an American officer in charge of Iraq for a year or more while the United States and its allies searched for weapons and maintained Iraq's oil fields. "
full article:
http://nytimes.com/2002/10/11/international/11PREX.html
The perceptions of those outside of the US that our country is driven purely by greed are, at the moment, pretty much correct. Our freedoms as businesspeople and citizens are dictated almost entirely by the wealthy and powerful. Currently we do enjoy a good amount of leeway, but how long will it last?
C.
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anyone who believes that a country does not act out of self interest first is pretty naive
i notice there is not much talk about Russia, China and France and their financial motivations for being against a regime change. Iraq owes Russia something like 8 Billion dollars and are major trading partners, same with china and France. A regime change could mean losing all that money.
anyone who thinks America is the center of all evil and their own government is squeeky clean is a complete fucking idiot. EVERY COUNTRY HAS BLOODY HANDS - the ONLY arguement can be whose hands are more bloody, whose hands are least bloody, who helped who get blood on whose hands are pretty rediculous arguements. For every bad thing you can say about the US (with the exception of bombing Japan) can be said about almost any other country in contemporary history.
all of which are pretty redundant arguements. the obligation of every countries government is to protect the interest of itself first as well as the safety, security and prosperity of its people.
its fine to question Bushs motivations... US motivations etc... but it does not change the fact that arguements about motivations are irrelevant to the facts of how this situation came to be.