what is the war in Iraq about????

SamFisher · Oct 25, 2006

real_egal said:

BTW, it's Schadenfreude
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Maybe in mandarin it is but I'm using the hakka transliteration...

real_egal · Oct 25, 2006

SamFisher said:

Maybe in mandarin it is but I'm using the hakka transliteration...
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Nah, in Mandarin, it would be a four-word-phrase, representing a story happened 500 years ago, involving an old wise man.

mc mark · Nov 6, 2006

Three years ago at the beginning of the war people who suggested that the war was about oil were laughed at and scorned as conspiracy theorist whack jobs.

Well look at what Bush's excuse is these days for staying the course.

As he barnstorms across the country campaigning for Republican candidates in Tuesday's elections, Bush has been citing oil as a reason to stay in Iraq. If the United States pulled its troops out prematurely and surrendered the country to insurgents, he warns audiences, it would effectively hand over Iraq's considerable petroleum reserves to terrorists who would use it as a weapon against other countries.

"You can imagine a world in which these extremists and radicals got control of energy resources," he said at a rally here Saturday for Rep. Marilyn Musgrave. "And then you can imagine them saying, 'We're going to pull a bunch of oil off the market to run your price of oil up unless you do the following. And the following would be along the lines of, well, 'Retreat and let us continue to expand our dark vision.' "

Bush said extremists controlling Iraq "would use energy as economic blackmail" and try to pressure the United States to abandon its alliance with Israel. At a stop in Missouri on Friday, he suggested that such radicals would be "able to pull millions of barrels of oil off the market, driving the price up to $300 or $400 a barrel."
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110506Z.shtml

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