Dear Redmanfms,
No matter how much you call me numbskull, which is not very mature btw, I still refuse to believe the propaganda US army feeds us.
I can read, so I know the official reasons for Afhgan War. Bush would have never been re-elected without 9/11 attacks so he had to begin the war against terrorism. Tough call. CIA knew about the attacks but US war industry needed a new opponent after the Soviet Union fell to keep the wheels and dollars rolling.
What comes to Iraq, legal based attack etc. is what US government told the press to get acceptance to the attack from the world. Bush Jr. wanted to finish what his father Bush started. First US financed Iraqis in their war against Iran and after they couldn’t control Saddam.
At the start of the war, U.S. officials argued that Iraq and its alleged weapons of mass destruction posed an imminent threat to the interest of the United States, Europe and the other nations of the Middle East. The intelligence was supported by British intelligence, as well as given tacit support by Russian and German intelligence. But the intelligence was also criticized by others and weapons inspectors found no evidence of WMD. After the invasion, the Iraq Survey Group concluded that Iraq had ended its WMD programs in 1991 and had no active programs at the time of the invasion, but that they intended to resume production if and when the Iraq sanctions were lifted. Although some earlier degraded remnants of misplaced or abandoned WMD were found, they were not the weapons for which the coalition invaded. Some U.S. officials claimed Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda had been cooperating, but no evidence of any collaborative relationship has been found. Other reasons for the invasion stated by officials included concerns over Iraq’s financial support for the families of Palestinian suicide bombers, Iraqi government human rights abuses, spreading democracy, and Iraq’s oil reserves, although the latter has been denied by other officials.
The war in Iraq looks strongly like an offensive war, no better than the German invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1938. It is an invasion to guarantee oil rights. I don’t care about the gasoline prises in US. This oil thing goes WAY beyond that. US lost Venezuelan oil fields after Chavez came to power and US sorely needs to control the flow of oil to have their share of the oil markets. US gasoline money is pennies compared to the oil needs of the rising dragon of China!!! China is one big reason for huge rises in the oil prices and of course US owned oil companies want to keep their share of profits. If you can count 1+1 you can see the connection here…almost half of China’s oil come from the Middle East and the consumption is on the rise.
I quite believe what the original text says, patriotism and loyalty drives young people to serve in the US Army. You must hate Michael Moore but in his document about 9/11 he claims that drafting is most effective in areas with high unemployment rates, among people with no clear future. Fancy schools tend to produce officers and special troops. The poorer folks do most of the basic fighting.
