[quote]wetdrmscap wrote:
I think we were not only right in going into Iraq, but I think we should have taken care of it the first time we were in the area. Now, I hear most of you say: “Oh, the oil, all we want is the oil” all while holding pictures of Bush and Cheney with their Haliburton contacts, etc…
All things aside, let me pose a question to you all to see what you think: Would the Iraqi people be better off had the U.S. never Bthe U.S. arrived, Sadaam Hussein and his tyranny had complete control over the country, and showed no mercy to his own people. The accounts of torture, abuse, murder, genocide go on and on. Most of the country had NO running water before the coalition got there. Before the war, 25% of the countries hospitals were up and running, now, 100% of them are operational.
Living in this country we take for granted things like, being protected by our government/country, instead of the thousands upon thousands being gassed, like the khurds were by Sadaam. The athletes in the country no longer have the pressure of “Win, or die!” that was a hallmark of Sadaam, and his son’s… Almost every city thoughout the country did not have a fully functional police force, or none at all. Girls are NOW, for the first time allowed to attend school in Iraq…Oh yeah, and about the oil???
For all those liberal, tree-hugging protestors out there, the first thing we secured was the oil fields!!! What was our first move you ask? We handed their control over to the Iraqi government, and proceeded to assit them in getting the pumping stations running to produce THEIR oil, in order to generate THEIR money, to help THEIR country! In fact, Iraq just had it’s first 2 billion barrel producing month…The United States is profiting $0.00 on Iraq’s oil so I don’t know what all these people are talking about. We are setting up a legitmate government for the first time in decades, instilling rights among the people, and ridding the region of terrorists that prey on their own innocent civilians. We will look back in 20 years at this thing and reflect upon how vital a free, democratic Iraq is to the enitre middle east and rest of the world for that matter. The ones benefiting MOST from the United States’ involvement in Iraq??? The Iraqi people!
-Cheers[/quote]
to be frickn frank i don’t know jack about politics but from what i know about the war this stuff right here bugs me more than seein’ foulke in the 9th inning. point being: i don’t give a flying fuck about iraq or any of the people over there. and i don’t believe anyone does unless they’ve got iraqi friends or relatives. so everytime i hear the bad news i keep wonderin’ what the frick we’re doing over there gettin’ killed and spending good money ? and when i hear the good news about hospitals and electricity and sewars and schools i think big frickn deal what are we, that means me and the rest of the whole frickn u.s.of a., getting out of this ? i got no frickn idea how you know what the future’s lookin’like in twenty years there swami, but i can tell you when i look back on the last twenty years, which is about as far as i can look back, i remember growing up with sports programs at every level. today my high school can’t afford even a varsity football team, let alone j.v. or mod-a. they just sent me a letter asking for a donation . so again why should i give a rat’s ass for anyone in iraq and where’s the frickn return on our investment ?
