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Originally Posted by dlssmith
This is an excellent point. Politicos have always said that we must keep the oil flowing for the sake of the world economy, etc. So we went to Kuwait and kicked butt there. But, I counter by saying that the oil will flow no matter what because the oil producers want money. So why do we bother mixing it up in their politics?
I do believe that Israel has a right to exist and that we should give succor there when necessary, but it's a small strip of land that our Navy can defend with relative ease.
I am a conservative person, a republican at times, but I don't think this war has been good for the country. It's hard to identify the good guys sometimes and in the ME it's damned near impossible. So who do we kill?
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I for one, believe that Bush revealed the administration's intentions all along when he recently proposed a substantial and indefinite presence in Iraq ala S. Korea. Yes, it's certainly about oil, but more importantly, it's about empire. I cannot conceive of anything further from the basic tenets of conservatism than empire-building. It's time for the madness to stop.