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Termyn8or -> RE: Budget surplus (8/6/2008 6:50:40 PM)
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Hold on thar. First of all Saddam did not neglect Iraq. Their infrastructure might not have been quite what we have, but it was working. They had electricity, television, water, that is until we came along.
They were also selling to countries who did not participate in our sanctions, otherwise why switch to euros ? After 1991 when we destroyed a good piece of their oil infrastructure, they were not happy about that.
In fact Saddam planned to drive the dollar down after the switch to euros, and that is exactly what I would do in light of the bombings and the sanctions. US forces siezed BILLIONS out of Iraqi banks, and it was all in US dollars. They would have flooded the market and the dollar would be worth probably around what it is worth today, but sooner.
The neocons were stupid not to let it happen, then they would have a bad guy. They could even claim that to attack our economy in that way can be considered an act of war. But the way they did it, they got the money, and they really didn't need it.
As George Carlin put it; we got shitty politicians because we got shitty people. Those suits have only one thing on their mind, quarterly profits. They are stupid compared to the Chinese, Isrealis, Arabs, about half of Europe, Russia, Iceland, the list goes on. Sometimes it seems that they think only five seconds into the future. Others think long term, and that is why they are not starting trouble.
Another point though, is that most of them would see the true cost of war should they wage it. Unlike us who seem to have a credit card with no limit.
Even after 1991 Iraq was doing pretty well. They had schools and hospitals and roads.
People have a big misconception about pre-war Iraq. And if you want to show me pictures of certain places in Iraq where people lived like animals and had nothing, I shall have to point you to the streets of some of our US cities. Under some bridges, things like that. But our infrastructure is working. A foreign power did not come and destroy it.
And if the need is so great in Iraq and they just sit on all that money, then it is the people we installed who are neglecting Iraq. In fact we installed Saddam in the first place. Remember the Iran-Iraq war ? Remember what we called hostages when Iran siezed our embassy there ?
Remember Oliver North ? We have been stirring that pot long enough. Money would have been good enough, so oil really wasn't the reason. I'll not say the reason in the open forum. But it is true.
The truth does come to he who waits, but he must remember. If one does not remember history, no matter what you post or cite is nothing but a disconnected fact. But if you remember you can see the pattern, and you can then arrive at conclusions not impelled by Fox news.
People have very short memories, that is the problem.
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