Yet Saddam paid the families of Hesbolah terrorists in Israel.
The major lucrative gains we will receive from our Iraq engagement are rebuilding contracts. Do you really think the world will stand idly be as we siphon all of Iraq's oil to us at no Iraqi profit? We are not going to get enough oil for a good enough price from this situation to REALLY make a difference. That's just an exaggerated, if not fictionalized, rally-cry from the anti-war left.
Our oil business in Iraq will be so heavily scrutinized that we will be able to do nothing but handle it in a way profitable to Iraqis. The exploration of Iraq's oil reserves and the expansion of the Iraqi oil business will profit them more than us. Anyways, we get by far most of our oil from places like Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela.
The original post in this thread was stupid.
Just a few rebbutals of the original points:
Bush is in almost no way responsible for the economic downturn. Let's face it: Clinton was president during the dot-com explosion, thus the stock market was incredibly high. It was already on its way down when he left office. Enron and Tyco happened under Clinton's term -- the CEOs didn't siphon money off overnight as soon as Bush was elected. Recently, the stock market has made RECORD increases and the Dow Jones is over 10,000.
To even insinuate that Bush was somehow responsible for 9/11 is unbelievably stupid.
Clinton engaged in two military actions in his presidency, both skirting the UN in some way (as far as I recall). Neither areas presented any iminent threat to us. He was president during the Somalia debacle. He allowed himself to be blackmailed by North Korea, and look how well that worked out. Whenever I claim that he was a terrible president, people scold me for being stupid enough to think that 'getting a little head' is wrong. In fact, I think he was LUCKY that that scandal distracted from and replaced his other missteps in his legacy.
If nothing else, you must admit that Bush acts out of conviction and has a vision for the United States. If you ask me, we need more polititians like that.
