Darwoth wrote:also i never cared whether there were wmds or not and for all you know there could have been a highly credible reason to suspect there in fact were, i also agree saddam should have been left in place to keep the warring groups of ***** in check as i am sure everyone back then that made the call now does as well. hindsight is 20/20 however and he was unwilling to play ball with the oil, wars have been fought over natural resources since the dawn of human civilization and i have no problem with that. making sure gasoline does not spike to $10+ a gallon is a hell of a lot better and realistic reason than to "liberate the iraqi people" anyway
problem is the liberal idiots in this country would have all collectively choked to death on their starbucks latte under such blunt truth, the country would have ground to a halt without cheap gas, and the enviro nazis were attempting to make it so drilling here would have been just as expensive if not more on the scale needed.
so yeah, saddam got *****. oh well.
Yes, that's mostly correct, the problem I have with it, is for one part, that the evidence for wmds was faked, to hide the true reason.
Then after Russia annexes the crimea and invades east Ukraine, Kerry says something like "a superpower in the 21st century must not invade a foreign country with arms under false pretenses",
and people still take him seriously...
And all the refugees flood Yurop and no one remembers the reason why there is war they are fleeing from...
Murica spying on their "friends"... no one remembers...
Snowden... wait, who was that again...
I see there is no one going to take murica to court for things like that, but why do they need to "forget" suchs things instantly?
Not to speak of all the hypocrisy...