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Originally Posted by Willravel
I'm in the SF Bay Area echo chamber, so I mostly hear progressive views on the wars (namely that they're wrong and we need to stop getting involved in other countries' civil wars and concentrate on fixing things here). I can't really speak for elsewhere.
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Well, I can't say that Iraq is off the radar here. I just remembered I read a Canadian magazine article last month detailing how certain oil companies are making quite the killing in Iraq: high risk = high reward.
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