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[QUOTE="Headbanging%20Man:1117385"][QUOTE="RiiidddasofDooooommmkhed:1117367"][QUOTE="MillenialKingdom:1117331"]At least we made the progress of leaving one country. Iraq is no longer considered a combat zone. All the offensive strategies are being focused on flushing out the Taliban in Afghanistan. [/QUOTE] you drink the military kool aid only reason we went to Iraq was so Sadam didn't nationalize the oil fields (like Iran did when we went in and tried to overthrow them) only reason we went to afganistan was proven true this year when they found those massive mineral deposits...guess who will benefit from the trillions of dollars of resources they just found there... and the reason we are leaving Iraq is so we can invade Iran or maybe Venezuela, for, you guessed it, both countries are top oil sources. [/QUOTE] Greg Palast makes a pretty good case that Iraq part 1 was less about Kuwait than a massive American debt collection action, on the part of Saddam's Saudi creditors... And that Part 2 was particularly urgent to the oil mafia, who had benefited from Iraq playing the role of "under producer" in OPEC. Saddam was threatening to pull out of the cartel, having been stuck in the less-lucrative Asshole chair for years, which allowed OPEC as a whole to gouge the hell out of the oil/gas market. Our entanglements with the Saudis are easily just as bad as with Israel; I think there's a good chance that the US presence in Yemen may be a precursor to broader involvement across the whole Arabian peninsula, all to keep the House Of Saud hand-holdin'-happy... As for Afghanistan, I think the mineral wealth will certainly serve as a strong enticement for the corporate community to forget all that "Graveyard Of Empires" mumbo-jumbo, and support Obama's surge in "Af-Pak"... But I'm sure at the heart of it, it's still about this: [IMG]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Qm2i8mXTjhs/SnlelAPyAAI/AAAAAAAABnc/RkyJS8eMlVQ/s1600/CASPIAN-MIDDLE%2520EAST_OIL%2520%26%2520MILITARY%2520PRESENCE.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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