--------------------------------------------------------------------------Originally Posted by DJD
OK I answer the questions.
After 911 I would have attacked Afghanistan and invaded parts of Pakistan with or without their approval. Bush said that anyone that harbored the 911 terrorist planner was with the terrorist and not our friend.
Well he said that but would not sent troops into Afghanistan.
We need to wipe out the Taliban and destroy the poppy fields while we are at it. We should render that land growing poppy infertile and keep it that way. Poppy and heroin production is being used as a weapon against our kids this country and should be wiped out totally. By any means possible
I would not have invaded Iraq. We have Saddam Contained and we should have never let him get permission to fly helicopters over Southern Iraq after the first gulf war over Kuwait.
It's for certain that we went to war with Iraq over their oil. I mean that's so obvious to me. There are other countries that are far more dangerous to the USA that Iraq. North Korea for one which now has nukes but no oil.
As for why the price of oil is so high after we invaded Iraq. Well there are many reasons I can think of. Cheney is the main reason. How much money has his old company and friends taken from the US Tax Payers. We have spent 4 trillion dollars on this war so far. People working for bush were fired when they projected the cost of the war in Iraq to be more than a few tens of million dollars.
I don't know who's getting the money from the sale of oil in Iraq. If the Iraqi Government is getting that money they why do we have to pay for this war with our tax money? I remember when Cheney said that the Iraqi Oil would fun the war in Iraq. Well that's obviously not happening as Cheney/Bush keep coming back to Congress every few months asking for another 200 billion dollars to keep the war funded.
Someone has to be getting money for the oil coming out of Iraq. We sure don't hear a lot about how the OIL production is going in Iraq. You can be sure that our Military is protecting that oil. We drove north to the oil fields in the first weeks of the Invasion of Iraq. And our navy seals were on the Southern Oil Platforms long before the war got hot. The first thing we did was take over the Oil Platforms off the Coast of Iraq. There is not doubt in my mind that the oil was our prime reason for that war.
As to why the price of oil is so high now is something I too am asking myself. If Iraq has 25% of the world PROVEN oil Reserves and we have the production facilities up and running then we should be able to dump more oil on the worlds market and drop the price of oil significantly. Bush is in charge of this countries army so I think that is a question that we should ask him. Where is the money going from the sale of Iraqi Oil. And if it's going to the Iraqis then why are we still funding this war instead of the Iraqi Government. The guys getting this money from the oil should be trillion-airs right now with the price of oil being so high. So I say let the Iraqi fund this war not the US Tax payers.
Getting out of Iraq is going to be as easy as getting in. We may not get all our heavy equipment out without loosing some. But we should be able to get most of our stuff out of there. It won't be a rush like what happened in Vietnam. First off the Iraqi army is not existent and we don't have to worry about an large organized army attacking us like what happened in Vietnam.
We can secure the roads to move our forces out of Iraq. That should not be as difficult as some are making it out to be.
We also should leave sufficient forces in the region to go back into Iraq if Iran starts to try any funny stuff. We don't need to pull out of the area completely. But we should not be the ones patrolling the streets of Baghdad and getting killed by IUDs. We can always move right back into Iraq is things go sour. We did that already back in 2003.
Heck if we wanted to we could move our tanks and troops from Iraq into Kuwait in a matter of months.
After all we drove into the heart of Iraq in a matter of a few days or was it a couple of weeks.
The logistics may be tough but I am sure that if we can get all those troops into Iraq in a few weeks we can surely bring them back out in a few months or even a couple of years.
Our planes and Helicopters could fly out in 24 hours. The Abrams takes and Humvee could be driven across the desert in a few days too.
Until we pull out the Iraqis will never stand up for themselves. Even under Saddam they quickly raised the white flags when our drone planes came over head. They don't fight well. But they are going to have to learn to fight if they want to keep Iran out of their country.
I personally see Iran as much more dangerous than Iraq ever was.
Iran,Persia, has alway been a super power in the past.
Now did I miss anything?
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