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first of all, many of us had read those papers before the war. And we were the ones explaining to people that the posturing Bush was doing was immaterial--we were definately headed for war.
And we cited those papers as our evidence that the war plans were drafted and waiting for an opening.
Secondly, the way mojo described the war for oil situation is not contrary to leftist positions. He just wants it to be, because it happens to be correct. Depending on how many threads this current version of TFP still has, one can run a search on my name and find a similar, although more in-depth, exposition of the left's position in regards to "war for oil."
I don't know if he lifted those thoughts from that thread, but he certainly didn't appear to agree when many of us posted those same assertions long ago.
In any case, I'm very interested to see the data on freshwater bodies in Iraq. I find that tidbit more interesting and problematic than oil reserves.
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