I'm going to quote what one of a poster said on another forum []I don't know what democratic country everyone thinks they're living in, but I live in a capitalist country. Money dominates all government decisions. As a small background on this, we do not have national healthcare, even though it would greatly help the people and lower everyone's cost on healthcare a month. We do this because America doesn't help the people UNLESS it can make them money. Homelessness is another issue. The programs set up to assist are put together sloppily and need to be centralized in an agency. Since the homeless won't contribute enough however, it will not be taken care of.
Now let's enter the Iraq situation. Saddam Hussein has not been any more of a danger to us than he has been for the last 15-20 years. A few years ago, weapons inspectors during the Clinton times reported that Iraq had dismantled so many weapons, it was unprecendented in history. In addition, Iraq has been destroying weapons ever since then. They are of little danger to us. That argument is out the window.
The treaty is another story. While I believe we could have given more time to the inspectors, as progress was being made, I do see the point in this. It's been too many years since the treaty took effect, and something needs to be done about it.
Thirdly, the freeing of Iraqi people. While Bush's argument of Iraq gassing it's own people at Hablaja(sp?) has been proven false, Hussein is still an evil son of a bitch. If this war will bring about peace in Iraq, then at least something good will come out of it. I don't believe we're here for that however, because if we were, we wouldn't be waiving the Massive Ordnance Air Blast around in a threatening way. There's no way we'll waste them on small bases, they were made to hit cities, as they have the explosion of a nuclear blast, minus the radioactive fallout.
The reason I first mentioned capitalism is because I believe we're in Iraq for three main reasons, all money producing. The first two are pretty well known.
1) Military funding-self explanitory
2) Oil-well known, don't be a fool. Everyone knows we have this agenda.
3)water-very unknown but legitimate cause for war in Iraq
I have to get to sleep, but I'm going to follow this up tomorrow with details on all three reasons for going into this war capitalistically. I'll also discuss our "freedoms" that will change in the new Patriot Act 2, that is waiting for the next terrorist attack to be passed. Someone already presented pieces of the first Patriot Act in this post, stating how the fourth amendment right has been done away with. Just remember people, open up your third eye. Everything isn't always as it seems on the surface.
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