is in there for the oil? I am, unfortunately, a middle of the road libertarian married to a hard core Republican. He says that Bush is NOT in there for the oil, but I think he is. Unfortunately, I am stupid enough that I have nothing to back this up, I just feel it, which is the unfortunate inheritance of sensitive people. He says that *all* that Bush went in there for was to take down the Saddam regime. I don't believe that. The Saddam regime was there for decades, and they didn't care about it before, did they? Originally, we had the war on Afghanistan to stop Osama.. and now they could care less about Osama, and they are after Saddam. There were NO WMD found, and now.. what the heck? Now our guys are getting blown up left and right from suicide bombers for NO REASON. We have NO REASON to be there anymore. THe people of Iraq are perfectly able to take care of their own government: they have been doing it for thousands of years. The US has NO business being there, none at all, except to help them rebvuild a country that WE have devastated. Good God. Will our President ever get a clue and find out that we WANT to get along with people? We don't want to get in fights. We fought what we had to fight for two hundred years ago: freedom of speech, religion.etc. When we had a REASON to fight, we fought hard and long and we won. We should let OTHER countries fight their OWN fights against oppressiveness. They will, when they get fed up with it. There's HUNDREDS of countries that have human rights abuses.. but we don't go get into it with THEM.
CG