Right War, Right Place, Right Time

[Comrade_Stalin]

@mofangongren

The only problem, of course, is that the Iraq war was all about oil, Halliburton and Kristol & Wolfowitz’s looney “Project for a New American Century.” I want my money back.

Your nickel’s in the mail. Don’t spend it in one place.

[politbureau]

@Tigerman

. . . after all, the 911 terrorists were all from SA.

Well, not quite. Fifteen of the nineteen were – but that’s close enough for now. You’re a work in progress for us, Tigerman, so we can’t be too hard on you. I must say though I’ve noticed encouraging signs of progress in you lately.

Here’s your next assignment should you choose to accept it. Repeat fifty times slowly while contemplating your navel:

Invade in haste. Repent at leisure.

[Tigerman]

@spook

You’re a work in progress for us, Tigerman, so we can’t be too hard on you. I must say though I’ve noticed encouraging signs of progress in you lately.

I will never turn to the Dark Side, spook… never!

I’m the kind of guy who always sees the beer mug as half full… never is it half empty.

[Flipper]

@mofangongren

Before the war, there was an awful lot of talk about how the oilfields were going to get Iraq back up and on its feet in no time. The fact is that the equipment was in worse shape than was anticipated and we’re getting oil pipelines blown up all the time because the Bush administration absolutely misjudged the attitude of the Iraqi people. The fact that the Bush administration is a bit top-heavy on oil people and very secretive about its dealings with oil people is well established. Add in the Project for a New American Century materials and the involvement of key administration officials such as Paul Wolfowitz, and I think there are good reasons to tie the Iraq war in with oil.

it’s funny that you can write so much and yet say so little. you are throwing around disjointed arguments that end up contradicting each other.

iraqi oil money can be used to pay for iraqi reconstruction. uh, ok. so the us went to war in order to use iraqi oil to pay for the war? interesting argument.

and then you throw out the “oil people” line. lol. what does that mean, exactly? why would an oil exec advocate a war in the middle east??? the BEST way to profit is to get in tight with dictators and swing some sweet contracts. you say the bush administration is full of oil people who know more about oil than you ever will and yet you are so sure that you were smarter than they were when it comes to oil. your argument comes down to: bush is surrounded by experts on the oil industry, but they were all wrong and i’m right! :loco:

[Flipper]

@mofangongren

In contrast, based on the substance and quality of many of your posts, I would probably be more correct in guessing that you started posting on this board to practice English.

english is my third language…so what’s your excuse for your failure to grasp elementary logic?

[cake]

deja vu, as usual tax payers money vanishes…

WASHINGTON – About half of the roughly $5 billion in Iraq reconstruction funds disbursed by the US government in the first half of this year cannot be accounted for, according to an audit commissioned by the United Nations, which could not find records for numerous rebuilding projects and other payments.

One chunk of the money – $1.4 billion – was deposited into a local bank by Kurdish leaders in northern Iraq but could be tracked no further: The auditors reported that they were shown a deposit slip but could find no additional records to explain how the money was used or to prove that it remains in the bank.

Auditors also said they could not track more than $1 billion in funds doled out by US authorities for hundreds of large and small reconstruction projects.

–Bryan Bender, The Boston Globe, October 16, 2004

[jplowman]

[quote=“Tigerman”]
So, mofo, do you think that we should have invaded SA instead?[/quote]

Why not? The world would be “better off without” a dictatorial monarchy where women have no rights and people get their hands cut off for stealing wouldn’t it? Isn’t that the reason we invaded Iraq, because the world was “better off without” Saddam Hussein? I expect we will be invading Russia shortly.