Nitro the Guru said:
Disarming them of illegal bio/nuclear weapons. Why do you ask where they are, do you think they are searching a house? maybe a small city? or perhaps an entire country covering thousands of miles... think about it for a little bit. On one hand half of you claim that we gave them WMD in the 90's, the other half of you ridicule the government for invading the country when there are no weapons. How can both be true? Did IRAQ use the weapons they once had? Did they sell them to terrorists? Why isn't the location of these weapons documented? Perhaps, if we KNOW they have weapons we gave them, yet we CAN't even find those, it's safe to say there are plenty of undiscovered parts of that country.
the Bush Admin has been claiming that WMDs is the reason why we went to war in the first place. THat is what they been pushing, and were very certain. The fact that they were pushing that for the fore most, and yet we haven't found anything...hmmmm
come on, your analyze of iraq is some what laughable.... "Why do you ask where they are, do you think they are searching a house? maybe a small city? or perhaps an entire country covering thousands of miles... think about it for a little bit."
give me a break....the Bush Admin has been pushing, with NO EVIENDENTS before or after the war. remember those Picture Powell used in the UN? with the trucks, u know what those were? hint: not BIO weapons.
" On one hand half of you claim that we gave them WMD in the 90's, the other half of you ridicule the government for invading the country when there are no weapons. How can both be true?"
oh boy, do i detected hypocrisy on your part?
you ask me to dug deeper on this subject, becuase you assume that i dont know shit about it and you were the all knowing.
yet you ask me this stupid question.
Both are believe by the opposition, but i guess you dont pay attention..... DO U NOT BELIEVE in both parts?
the first gulf war was successfuly in disarming Saddam, but more effectivly in disarming iraq were the weapon inpectiions. The main weapons inpectors in iraq, Hans Blix (sp) will tell you this in his reports, and will state that he doesn't believe iraq has such weapons.
weapons inpections were effective.
Nitro the Guru said:
Really, the last I heard the people of that country were praising Americans for saving them, I saw it with my own eyes. Sadaam has been commiting crimes against humanity his entire presence in office.
the last you hear must have been when US forces won the 'war' on saddam, loong time ago, did you even notice the protestors? check the numbers. again re read my statement:
liberating iraqis? if you believe in this, why were you not saying shit when saddam was our ally? when he was killing oppisition in iraq. Apparently he committed his wrost crimes when he was our ally. US knew about the opposition, they let Saddam kill them ... With this said, this can't be a reason.
Nitro the Guru said:
A change of mind you say. Could it be something like, I once was lost, but now im found? If I showed you undeniable PROOF that sadaam was a killer and was developing unbelievable amounts of WMD's, would you not have a change of mind? Would that make you a bad person because light was shed upon you? I don't know that this was the case with the CIA, but I would believe they were shown something that pursuaded them to believe sadaam is a threat.
another nitro reason.
"i once was lost but now i'm found"? LMAO, do u talk like this in public?...ok enough of that.
you believe they were shown something that pursuaded them? wait one minute here, the Bush admin has be pushing for a war on iraq, what other dept can they get info on iraq, isn't that the job of the CIA?
Nitro the Guru said:
I won't acknowledge it because I have heard nothing of it. Maybe FRESNO is the only US city to not know about IRAQ'a connection to 9/11, because if you ask anyone here, you will hear them talk about afghanistan. It was highly publicized that none of the terrorists were from IRAQ, that it was Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda that masterminded everything.
nope, that was a nationwide poll, check the link provided.
Nitro the Guru said:
"Britain co-sponsored a Security Council resolution that gave back IRAQ control over it's oil revenues. "
Does that? Ladi-Freakin-Dah
i dont understand what you are implying...i'll get at it later in the post.
Nitro the Guru said:
I believe it when you say you dug through the roots, but how much bias was there? No matter how creditable the source, no matter the great amount of articles published and not published, no matter the crystal clear proof that everything going on is in some way justifiable, you will look past it all for one small unknown source criticizing this government. Im not accusing you of this, but this is what I have come to believe after dozens of posts from you "Anti-Americans", as you have so been labeled.
what i'm saying is what the left have been saying, again by scholars, intellects, etc....that is who i'm been following.
my sources are not unknown, its from the same source the ppl protesting the war were following. HOw many ppl were that? in the US, and all throughout the world
where have i ever stated something "anti america" on this thread? you cant prove it, becuase you pick up on what other have labeled me, you dont want to look past the "unkown source criticizing" ME.
Hypocrisy?
lets me refresh your mind.
nefar559 said:
America's primary interest in the Persian Gulf lies in ensuring the free and stable flow of oil from the region to the world at large. This fact has nothing to do with the conspiracy theories leveled against the Bush administration during the run-up to the recent war. U.S. interests do not center on whether gas is $2 or $3 at the pump, or whether Exxon gets contracts instead of Lukoil or Total. Nor do they depend on the amount of oil that the United States itself imports from the Persian Gulf or anywhere else. The reason the United States has a legitimate and critical interest in seeing that Persian Gulf oil continues to flow copiously and relatively cheaply is simply that the global economy built over the last 50 years rests on a foundation of inexpensive, plentiful oil, and if that foundation were removed, the global economy would collapse.
Today, roughly 25 percent of the world's oil production comes from the Persian Gulf, with Saudi Arabia alone responsible for roughly 15 percent -- a figure expected to increase rather than decrease in the future. The Persian Gulf region has as much as two-thirds of the world's proven oil reserves, and its oil is absurdly economical to produce, with a barrel from Saudi Arabia costing anywhere from a fifth to a tenth of the price of a barrel from Russia. Saudi Arabia is not only the world's largest oil producer and the holder of the world's largest oil reserves, but it also has a majority of the world's excess production capacity, which the Saudis use to stabilize and control the price of oil by increasing or decreasing production as needed. Because of the importance of both Saudi production and Saudi slack capacity, the sudden loss of the Saudi oil network would paralyze the global economy, probably causing a global downturn at least as devastating as the Great Depression of the 1930s, if not worse. So the fact that the United States does not import most of its oil from the Persian Gulf is irrelevant: if Saudi oil production were to vanish, the price of oil in general would shoot through the ceiling, destroying the American economy along with everybody else's.
But the United States is not simply concerned with keeping oil flowing out of the Persian Gulf; it also has an interest in preventing any potentially hostile state from gaining control over the region and is resources and using such control to amass vast power or blackmail the world. And it has an interest in maintaining military access to the Persian Gulf because of the region's geostrategically critical location, near the Middle East, Central Asia, eastern Africa, and South Asia. If the United States were denied access to the Persian Gulf, its ability to influence events in many other key regions of the world would be greatly diminished. (Much of the air war against Afghanistan, for example, was mounted from bases in the Persian Gulf.) The tragedy of September 11, 2001, finally, has demonstrated that the United States also has an interest in stamping out the terrorist groups that flourish in the region.
iraq's oil :
"Tony Blair complained in Parliament that "people falsely claim that we want to seize" Iraq's oil revenues, adding that they should be put in a trust fund for the Iraqi people administered through the UN. Britain should seek a Security Council resolution that would affirm "the use of all oil revenues for the benefit of the Iraqi people".
Instead Britain co-sponsored a Security Council resolution that gave the US and UK control over Iraq's oil revenues. There is no UN-administered trust fund.
Far from "all oil revenues" being used for the Iraqi people, the resolution continues to make deductions from Iraq's oil earnings to pay in compensation for the invasion of Kuwait in 1990. "
source:
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=3915
imperialism: The policy of extending a nation's authority by territorial acquisition or by the establishment of economic and political hegemony over other nations
the above, is that not IMPERIALISM?