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- inactive, on 07/07/2008, -13/+313And this is a surprise why?
- chadwalters23, on 07/07/2008, -10/+200Here, if you have a country, and I have a country, and I have a straw. There it is, that's a straw, you see? You watching?. And my straw reaches acroooooooss the world, and starts to drink your country... I... drink... your... country!
- Thrilltone, on 07/07/2008, -5/+100We overthrew Saddam after he stopped using Dollars as the currency for trading in oil.
Iran has already done it for petroleum based products and crude is next.
They already demand that the Japanese pay in Yen.
This practice will expose our house of cards, if it spreads, hence the coming Iran invasion.
When the dollar was named the world reserve currency in 1944, our economy skyrocketed.
When the dollar is unpegged from oil and other commodities, all Hell will break loose in the U.S. - inactive, on 07/07/2008, -8/+80Hey and it only cost us about 4500 soldiers lives, and the permanently disfigured over 20,000 more troops, and created the largest debt that any country has ever acquired in the history of mankind.
Thanks President Bush. - felman87, on 07/08/2008, -5/+74Mission Accomplished!!!
- acbrimm, on 07/07/2008, -8/+73Just another reason why we need to take our country back from these tyrants that control everything behind the scenes. But I'm sure any type of rebellion will be sifted out with wire tappings taken care of and covered up. And the downward spiral continues with the once again terrible nominees for the presidency; why is it always the choice between the lesser of two evils?
- mshtml, on 07/07/2008, -5/+60Joe six-pack thinks the war on terrorism is real. He believes you can declare war on a tactic and fight it. The tactic's stronghold is currently located in Iraq, the central front of the war. If you suggest the war is about oil or anything else the conditioning he's been exposed to on every tv channel, radio station and print article kicks in and he'll resist all that you tell him.
- jezsik, on 07/07/2008, -3/+49I read that the original name for Operation Iraqi Freedom was supposed to be:
Operation
Iraqi
Liberation
(I suppose someone suggested they should be a bit more subtle.) - Shadow57, on 07/08/2008, -3/+47Based the price of gas, if we went to Iraq solely for oil, we failed miserably.
- inactive, on 07/07/2008, -5/+43"I don't think it was so GWB could enrich his buddies"
Yeah. That was accidental.
Right. - Surferess, on 07/07/2008, -3/+36Who could have seen that coming? I am just Shocked and in Awe!
- inactive, on 07/07/2008, -10/+42It had more to do with serving Israel, though the oil kleptocracy was glad to go along for the ride. Remember, it was Israeli spies like Douglas Feith and David Wurmser that were cooking the intel to lie the public and lie congress into war.
- shutaro, on 07/07/2008, -11/+42In Soviet Russia, country drink you!
- inactive, on 07/07/2008, -5/+34I misread that as "electric chair." Either way.
- MasterThief117, on 07/08/2008, -4/+33In other news, water is wet, and ice is cold.
- NomortaL1, on 07/08/2008, -2/+29Try reading the article. I know it's a lot of words and all that, but persevere till the bitter middle and you will find:
"Israeli warplanes bombed a reactor project at the site in 1981. Later, U.N. inspectors documented and safeguarded the yellowcake, which had been stored in aging drums and containers since before the 1991 Gulf War. There was no evidence of any yellowcake dating from after 1991, the official said."
In case your memory needs refreshing, the first US vs Iraq war was in 1991 and there was great worldwide support for it. The next US vs Iraq war was in 2003 and there was not much support for it worldwide (I'm sure you still wonder why).
I bet the most US people seeing the headlines will think a similar way - "Hey Bush was right".
So it's going to be yet another wonderful "mission accomplished" by the "news people". Like shooting fish in the barrel.
Thanks media alright. - Marijuana, on 07/08/2008, -2/+28Sad but true.
- killerofkiller, on 07/08/2008, -1/+25http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20 ...
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Operation Iraqi Liberation - peestandingup, on 07/08/2008, -1/+23"They hate us for our freedoms!"
- kavutu, on 07/07/2008, -7/+28The Chinese are pumping and getting the oil from the lower half of Iraq. what does this tell you? Until we take back our out of control goverment we are getting exactly what we deserve. take action my fellow Americans!! Arise, march on DC, revolt, pillage and plunder until the beltway bandits understand we are fed up with being sold a bill of non existent goods! Arise! Fight! Win! Show ya have a pair!!
- minox, on 07/08/2008, -5/+25So it was an America, Dutch, French, and English conspiracy all along!
- FatherDEath, on 07/07/2008, -2/+21but think of all the amazing sand mmmmm yummmy thats what it was realy for sand our children's sand boxes have been getting low to the point we have been using wood chip substitutes
- JBmtk, on 07/08/2008, -0/+17For good reason...everyone around is a dumb ass
- ghaib, on 07/07/2008, -5/+22No *****, Sherlock!
- SoulGrub, on 07/08/2008, -0/+17Today a digger commented that the US invaded for the good of the iraqi people. This is still news to a lot of people.
- trghpy, on 07/08/2008, -2/+18Surprise? no.
Pissed off I'm not getting an Iraqi oil check, Yes. - Kakcoo, on 07/07/2008, -13/+28Someone should have hooked the Bush up to a lie detector.
- pixelguru, on 07/08/2008, -3/+18FTA: Israeli warplanes bombed a reactor project at the site in 1981. Later, U.N. inspectors documented and safeguarded the yellowcake, which had been stored in aging drums and containers since before the 1991 Gulf War. There was no evidence of any yellowcake dating from after 1991, the official said.
This is your justification for war? THIS??? A bunch of decades old barely radioactive dirt? I would have loved to see the Bush administration go on the air to sell us a war over that. No, instead he lied to you, and beat that lie into your head so many times that you still believe it to this day - that Saddam Hussein was going to make a nuclear bomb and use it to kill you. It was a lie. A complete and total lie. - speakafreaka, on 07/08/2008, -3/+17Do you think your average Joe Public would care about what was happening on the other side of the world right now if it meant $1 / gallon gas?
You'd be hard pressed to find anyone who cares about anything outside their family circle these days - speakafreaka, on 07/08/2008, -3/+16http://lh4.ggpht.com/speakafreaka/SHLdGHTxqDI/AAAA ...
Americans.
They will drink your milkshake - inactive, on 07/08/2008, -13/+26This article was full of lame speculation and absolutely no proof.
- inactive, on 07/08/2008, -10/+23So they cite the fact that oil companies are making record profits as reason alone to justify such a ludicrous claim.
Yeah because it's not like world demand isn't at an all time high or anything..
And don't let the fact that only ONE company listed was American affect your POV.
I guess logic won't work here, this is Bush bashin' time! YEEE HAAAA!!! - Fast05GT, on 07/08/2008, -5/+18Only took you nearly 6 yrs to realize that?
- alwilson, on 07/08/2008, -1/+13You mean McCain?
- Asianwaste, on 07/08/2008, -0/+11If you factor oil out of the equation, there are so many reasons why it was a bad idea to go in there in the first place. Militaristic stand point, the job wasn't done in Afghanistan and would thus spread ourselves too thin. Also if I remember correctly, Saddam Hussein wasn't in the best terms with Islamic extremists... let alone Al Qaeda and Osama. Politically we weren't supported by too many of our allies on this one and half the country thought it was a terrible idea. Yet we still did it anyways... so yea.. was it about oil? ***** duh!
- Mude, on 07/08/2008, -0/+11I was with you until you said "pillage and plunder." Take back control of our government, but wreck some storefronts and steal some TVs first! I don't think so.
- il2k3, on 07/07/2008, -1/+12Keep digging, Watson.
- SpeedSteamBoat, on 07/08/2008, -1/+12Last I checked the oil companies where posting record profits, and they didn't give a ***** what YOU paid at the pump. Now this has happened.
Newsflash: The war being "about oil" doesn't mean it was "about oil for make benefit of the great American public." It means Bush and all his friends have been ***** deep in the oil industry for decades, and, as a direct result of all of this, they stand to gain greatly financially when they almost certainly return to that industry next year.
I'm no extremist. I won't say this was "the plan" from the beginning and the sole motive for starting the war. The sad truth is that almost NO ONE can tell you why we started this war. But just as surely as I reject the idea that oil was the sole motive I reject the naive notion that it had absolutely nothing to do with it and never crossed the mind of anyone in the saintly Bush admin.
When men involved in oil plan to invade one the most oil rich nations in the world for any reason of course oil would be a part of the discussion, and by all reasonable analysis of the evidence it's completely fair to say it was likely part of the motive as well. - Derelict267, on 07/08/2008, -1/+12WHY DONT I OWN THIS?
- danthemanhan, on 07/08/2008, -3/+13there will be blood was the best ***** movie I've ever seen.
- inactive, on 07/08/2008, -0/+10Thats why Im buying Spam by the case.
God I feel depressed visting digg at times - swrostmore, on 07/08/2008, -2/+12That is a fact, although I wish somebody could come up with a screencap of it on CNN to head off the revisionist history that is surely headed our way. It was not only "supposed to be" O.I.L., the name was actively used by the Administration and their Pentagon propaganda force for about a week prior to "shock and awe."
- JBmtk, on 07/08/2008, -2/+12You must have registered early on digg to get that user name
- MetalCharms, on 07/08/2008, -0/+10This is why I can't have nice things!
- NomortaL1, on 07/08/2008, -0/+10sorry, heres the news story that i got that from,
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080706/ap_on_re_mi_ea ... - ericmerrill, on 07/08/2008, -0/+10Yeah, we need that oil to power our computers.
- Jarden, on 07/08/2008, -1/+10That does not, however, excuse him.
- DiggDuggDugged, on 07/08/2008, -0/+9The machine would cease to exist, in a violent implosion. Kinda like a robot after being presented with a logical paradox, sans logic. Or, picture Satan touching the holy cross if that iconography suits you.
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