Re: [Goanet]Seb thinks the US invaded Iraq for oil!
Seb, Why don't you try and rebutt what I said in my posting on the subject, with some facts and opinions of your own? Why haven't you explained why the US left all that mid-east oil in 1991 and went home? What you have cut and pasted below says that strong countries have more options than weak ones. How does it make your point that the US liberated Iraq for oil? Where does it even refer to oil? You are right that Iraq is worse off - for the minority Sunnis and Saddam Hussain, whom you seem to have so much sympathy for. They were murdering the majority Shia and Kurds previously to subjugate them, and are now killing them to deny them the freedom and democracy they desire. --- Seb dc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mario, I guess you need more bedrest. A never > thought! check your post > below, thats what you said. Even a one liner would > have done. I don't need > to read your long bashan. You can give that to > people who follow your > ideology. > > Anyway thanx all the same. > > PS: Btw you do good cut and paste work. > > ** > Earlier: "Mario Goveia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote. > > > > Basically, countries do what serves their > perceived > > interests. The strong ones have far more options > than > > the weak ones, who are left to accept the status > quo > > because there is nothing much they can do about > > anything. > > > > ----- Original Message - > From: "Mario Goveia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 7:30 PM > Subject: Re: [Goanet]Seb thinks the US invaded Iraq > for oil! > > > > --- Seb dc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Does this mean; US invaded Iraq for Oil??? Sorry > to > >> say, but thats how it sounds to me ! > >> > > Mario replies: > > Seb, I'm sorry, too, but it sounds the same to > many > > people who know nothing about world affairs, and > about > > who needs oil and who doesn't. These people also > seem > > to know nothing about what Iraq was like under > Saddam, > > Iraq is no better now either!!!
Re: [Goanet]Seb thinks the US invaded Iraq for oil!
Mario, I guess you need more bedrest. A never thought! check your post below, thats what you said. Even a one liner would have done. I don't need to read your long bashan. You can give that to people who follow your ideology. Anyway thanx all the same. PS: Btw you do good cut and paste work. ** Earlier: "Mario Goveia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. Basically, countries do what serves their perceived interests. The strong ones have far more options than the weak ones, who are left to accept the status quo because there is nothing much they can do about anything. - Original Message - From: "Mario Goveia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 7:30 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet]Seb thinks the US invaded Iraq for oil! --- Seb dc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does this mean; US invaded Iraq for Oil??? Sorry to say, but thats how it sounds to me ! Mario replies: Seb, I'm sorry, too, but it sounds the same to many people who know nothing about world affairs, and about who needs oil and who doesn't. These people also seem to know nothing about what Iraq was like under Saddam, Iraq is no better now either!!!
Re: [Goanet]Seb thinks the US invaded Iraq for oil!
--- Seb dc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does this mean; US invaded Iraq for Oil??? Sorry to > say, but thats how it sounds to me ! > Mario replies: Seb, I'm sorry, too, but it sounds the same to many people who know nothing about world affairs, and about who needs oil and who doesn't. These people also seem to know nothing about what Iraq was like under Saddam, especially for the Shia and Kurds, or they were supporters of the Saddam Hussain regime and are sorry to see him brought to justice. I don't know where exactly you fit in, but let's see if you can follow this. First of all you should know that some of the largest economies in the world import all their oil, so a disruption of mid-East oil would harm Europe, China and Japan, among others, far more than the US, which imports only a portion of the oil they use. Without the free flow of oil there would be a worldwide recession, Seb. I hope you don't want that. Second of all, I hope you remember as far back as 1991, when Saddam Hussain invaded Kuwait and threatened Saudi Arabia. Did you criticize Saddam for invading Kuwait for oil? I doubt it. Anyway, the US led a coalition to remove Saddam from Kuwait and did this within a few days, operating mostly from Saudi Arabia. At that time the US controlled pretty much all of mid-east oil. Yet they left all that beautiful oil and went home. What did you say at that time, Seb? People who say it's all about oil always conveniently forget to mention 1991. Finally, it seems like you don't know this either, but the oil being produced in Iraq today is being sold by the Iraqis and the money is going to Iraq's Treasury. So, when you say it sounds to you that the US "invaded Iraq for oil", what the heck are you talking about? >