Updated Title: World Revolution 2011

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Originally Posted by Tiggwin

well Ruhskins while your comment at face value is true... we did invade an oil producing country... but underneath you are blatantly incorrect. We didnt invade with the intent to conquer/colonize... we invaded under the threat of WMD's and we liberated a people from a brutal dictator. If we had wanted to conquer and colonize we would be controlling their oil... but instead being the "Freedom" loving nation that we are we let the Iraqi people bid out their oil rights to the highest bidder... we didnt "Take" their oil.

Please tell me that you do not believe this obsolete propaganda.

Iraq had no WMD's. Iran and N.Korea did in 2003. So if we were going to invade to dismantle WMD's, we invaded the wrong place.

As for "brutal dictators," by 2003 Saddam had been thoroughly neutered by UN sanctions and did not really control 2/3 of the country. So in 2003 he was still "brutal," but hardly a powerful dictator. But there were other brutal dictators who were more powerful. If we just wanted to dismantle the rule of a brutal dictator, we picked the wrong place.

Apparently you are not aware that the Iraqi oil industry was rebuilt by Halliburton, Cheney's company. So while we did not colonize Iraq or steal their oil, Cheney made a mint off of the invasion.

Further, both Bush and Cheney are heavily invested in several military industries. Every bullet and every shell that we fired in Iraq lined Bush and Cheney's pockets. Remember when the Halliburton subsidiary KBR was caught red-handed charging outrageous fees for meals, laundry, etc., for soldiers?