[Dems2008] Re: Why a get out now strategy doesn't work

I've heard that, but I don't think Bush is smart enough to find Iraq
on a map, so I've assumed that Cheney thought up, and sold to Bush,
this war, and that it's premise is PRIMARILY to aid Halliburton and
other cronies' companies.

--- In Dems2008@yahoogroups.com, Carol Roberts <carolroberts1@...>
wrote:
>
> I thought we went in there to take over the oil fields, which may
have
> been a consideration, but after reading Woodward's books on "Bush
At
> War" I've decided that littleBush had to do it to show Daddy, and
> probably for no other particular reason. It is definitely going to
be
> UNAmerican to suggest that our brave boys and girls are dying for
> nothing but corporate profits. Instead, they are dying to bring
> "democracy" to the heathens, which is impossible. Democracy is
only
> interesting to an educated, business-oriented middle class, and
Iraq
> does not have that class, or if it did the middle class disappeared
with
> deBaathification. Now we've got a country of the poor,
underprivileged
> and uneducated lower class, with a group of ex-patriot upper class -
the
> ones with enough money to get out before the US could kill or rob
them.
> Iran is the logical inheritor of Bush's War. I don't think we
can
> get out of it at all without making a deal with the mullahs of
Iran...Carol
>
> citation502 wrote:
> > If we were not there just to line the pockets of U.S.
Contractors, we
> > could probably SELL Iraq to Saudi Arabia, and then get the hell
out of
> > there. We are there to line businesses' pockets, and from Bush's
point
> > of view everyday we stay is another day of cost-overruns and more
> > benefit to the contractors.
> >
> > WHY will no one make that point in these campaigns, in the media,
in
> > the public conversation about Iraq? Is it because it's not
> > politically correct to suggest that our soldiers are dying for
money
> > alone?
> >
>

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