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i don't know will, leaving the ethics out of it...if we simply wanted to know sadaam's guy off the totem pole and put some pretty well fortified military bases on iraqi soil...i'm not so sure that our pnac administration didn't accomplish precisely the minimum and main thing they wanted / felt they needed to accomplish. i think a lot of the other things were not thought to be immediate future objectives by the serious planners of this. i think it was to mainly get our foot in the door, wearing an ironshod boot. we're there. we're not leaving. i don't care if we pull our troops back to reduced levels, we're going to be there. we've got proximity to many big suppliers of oil, and we can respond militarily from close quarters if and when shit breaks down over there.
i mean, india and china are on the move with increasing consumption of oil and output of co2. there might not be a lot of oil remaining at current or increased consumption levels, but having access to that resource is absolutely critical if the united states wants to retain anything even remotely like its current standard of living.
then, when the ethics bit comes in...its sort of a 'oh fuck. but we can't do that....wait wait wait...we'll do that, and call it this. classic bait and switch. at least that's my take.
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