Yes, lets just go in there, spend loads of money taking down this tyrrant and then leave, not even looking in the direction of all that lovely crude black......mmmmmmmm...oil.Originally posted by Hotpoint
I don't really buy the idea that's this is part of a US conspiracy to control Middle-Eastern Oil supplies
Never assume malevolence when rank stupidity explains the situation just as well
To be honest if any prior administration was doing this I'd have little trouble buying the idea it was a front to get lots more US military muscle into the Gulf, but the idea of Dubya as a Machiavelian schemer just doesn't ring true. He's made far to many elemental mistakes in Foreign Policy for me to see him as anything more than a blundering amateurOriginally posted by Silentbob
Yes, lets just go in there, spend loads of money taking down this tyrrant and then leave, not even looking in the direction of all that lovely crude black......mmmmmmmm...oil.
Are we talking about the same United States??
You forgot - also provided you don't drive a car or ever fall ill!Originally posted by Jones the Paint Magnet
[BAs for Blair TJ, you have to admire how he hides that collar and leash under the business suits. But aside from the endless parade of idiots he appoints to be in charge of things in the UK, he's relatively harmless. (provided you don't travel on the trains, go to school, work in the health service, teaching profession, farming or armed forces or fly.)
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