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Originally posted by Memalvada
Im against all wars, specially one fought over oil. Open you eyes. Just look at how the military was eager to secure oil fields, but did nothing to try and stop looting until a few while back.
Free the Iraqui people? Yeah right...
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"It's the oil stoopid?" This a moot point - this has been beaten to death on the old board and even those most against the war fianlly, at least to a point, agreed that this is not about oil. There was tons of material to substantiate this. There are two reasons we tried to protect their oil fields:
1. To try and prevent an ecological disaster
2. It is their oil, their countries wealth - wealth that has been enoyed by a priviledged few while the majority lived in poverty or worse.
Looting, while distasteful always occurs after a dictator of oppressed people is overthrown - It was expected and would have been impossible to stop. Granted, it is a shame that sites such as the museum were looted but it now appears this was an inside job and much of it took place earlier than when the mass looting by the populace took place. Law and order will be restored. The Iraqi people are intelligent enough to take care of their own problems as soon as influence from the past disappears.