Moonlit_Angel
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The world: making money off of dead people since the beginning of time .
The US government invaded Iraq to take over the oil reserves with the excuse of the potential existence of WMD's in Iraq. It was a tactic used by the Bush family to keep up the revenue of oil so that their oil businesses wouldn't fail. Yet, there's a lot of people that don't buy into that argument and don't take those facts as facts.
Why didn't the US invade UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, or any other developed oil-rich nation in the Middle East? Iraq was the answer because it seemed as an attractive oil-rich country, but yet poor along with a lot of political, civil, and economic instability.
At the end of the day, the main motivator for any government action is money; not safety, defense, or social responsibility, like large portion of conservatives think.
financeguy said:Largely accurate, but I was considered a "conspiracy theorist" for pointing out these facts back in 2005.
As do some people that promote the 9/11 conspiracy theories. The whole 9/11 thing was a made up story by the government directly linked to the invasion of Iraq.Largely accurate, but I was considered a "conspiracy theorist" for pointing out these facts back in 2005.
As do some people that promote the 9/11 conspiracy theories. The whole 9/11 thing was a made up story by the government directly linked to the invasion of Iraq.
Oh! We got terrorists that have weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that just attacked us, let's make up a story about how a group of terrorists that had 3 hours of flight training hijacked planes and flew them into the towers, that way we can use that as an excuse to go and get rich from Iraq's oil!
No Boeing 757 ever crashed the pentagon, nor the hijackers ever did what they did to the WTC. That fabricated story by the government in less than 24 hours is called a fairy tale.
As do some people that promote the 9/11 conspiracy theories. The whole 9/11 thing was a made up story by the government directly linked to the invasion of Iraq.
Oh! We got terrorists that have weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that just attacked us, let's make up a story about how a group of terrorists that had 3 hours of flight training hijacked planes and flew them into the towers, that way we can use that as an excuse to go and get rich from Iraq's oil!
No Boeing 757 ever crashed the pentagon, nor the hijackers ever did what they did to the WTC. That fabricated story by the government in less than 24 hours is called a fairy tale.
9/11 conspiracy theories are a lie
Before I go on, you are saying you think that 9/11 was orchestrated by the government?
Is it easier to expose your eye to the light or to bow your head and pray?9/11 conspiracy theories are a lie
Dfit00 said:Is it easier to expose your eye to the light or to bow your head and pray?
As do some people that promote the 9/11 conspiracy theories. The whole 9/11 thing was a made up story by the government directly linked to the invasion of Iraq.
Oh! We got terrorists that have weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that just attacked us, let's make up a story about how a group of terrorists that had 3 hours of flight training hijacked planes and flew them into the towers, that way we can use that as an excuse to go and get rich from Iraq's oil!
No Boeing 757 ever crashed the pentagon, nor the hijackers ever did what they did to the WTC. That fabricated story by the government in less than 24 hours is called a fairy tale.
you are an idiot.
Is it easier to expose your eye to the light or to bow your head and pray?
Christians Under Threat as Radical Islam Spreads in 'New Middle East'
Attacked by mobs and terrorists, repressed by the growing popularity of fundamentalist Islamic law and cut off from crucial business ties, Christians are fleeing the Middle East in an unprecedented exodus.
More than half of Iraqi Christians — an estimated 400,000 people — have left that country over the last decade as power has fallen in the hands of increasingly hostile Shi'a Islamic leaders.
In Egypt, home to at least 8 million Copt Christians — a number that exceeds the populations of Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, and Tunisia — at least 95,000 Christians have emigrated since March 2011. The number could reach 250,000 by the end of this year, reports the Egyptian Federation of Human Rights.
"At the present rate, the Middle East's 12 million Christians will likely drop to 6 million in the year 2020. With time, Christians will effectively disappear from the region as a cultural and political force," reports Daniel Pipes, a leading scholar of the Middle East.
The most popular destination for fleeing Christians was the United States, which took in an estimated 42,000 of the Egyptian Copts. Other destinations included Canada, Australia and western Europe.
Afghanistan destroys last Christian church
Posted by LTIA on October 12, 2011
“There is not a single, public Christian church left in Afghanistan, according to the U.S. State Department. “The last public Christian church in Afghanistan was razed in March 2010, according to the State Department’s latest International Religious Freedom Report…“There is no longer a public Christian church; the courts have not upheld the church’s claim to its 99-year lease, and the landowner destroyed the building in March [2010],… also … there are no Christian schools in the country.
“[Private] chapels and churches for the international community of various faiths are located on several military bases, PRTs [Provincial Reconstruction Teams], and at the Italian embassy.
“Freedom of religion has declined in Afghanistan, according to the State Department.
INDY500 said:Christians Under Siege as Radical Islam Sweeps 'New Middle East'
While I'm all for self-determination--this is what we're fighting, and dying, and paying for? An absolute disgrace and this is one conservative who supports the president pulling out troops as quickly as possible.
Actually, yes.
There certainly was violence under Saddam against Assyrians/Chaldeans, most of whom lived in the Kurdish areas targeted by the regime in the late 80s. It should be noted though that, like the persecution of the Kurds, that violence was ethnicity-based, part of Ba'athist "Arabization" policy (well, that and control of the oilfields). Granted, in practice it can sometimes get difficult to distinguish ethnic from religious persecution and that might pertain to some degree today also, but at any rate, if one were looking for examples of specifically "religion-based persecution" in Iraq, Saddam's violence against Assyrians/Chaldeans wouldn't be a very good example.
Daniels was responsible for estimating the cost of the invasion of Iraq, Operation Iraqi Freedom. The operation was estimated to last six months, and did not include a projection of the long-term cost of maintaining a military presence in the region after its immediate occupation.[25] In 2002, Assistant to the President on Economic Policy Lawrence B. Lindsey estimated the cost at between $100–$200 billion, much higher than Daniels' estimate. Daniels called Lindsey's estimate "very, very high" and stated that the costs would be between $50–$60 billion.[26] President Bush ultimately requested $75 billion to finance the operation during the fiscal year, and according to a 2010 Congressional Research Service report, the first fiscal year of the war cost $51 billion.[27] The failure to provide long term cost estimates led opponents to claim that Daniels and the administration had suggested the entire war would cost less than $60 billion.[24][25]
I have absolutely no idea what the hell we're supposedly fighting for anymore in any of the countries we've gone into in recent years.