Shahter wrote:
@Shock: whether you will admit it or not, there's only one global economy, regardless. as long as one side can simply print as much money as they please it doesn't really matter who does actual business, produces stuff and turns the profit - the only important thing is that everybody gets involved.
Then why go after oil fields at all if they were already selling their wares in dollars (ergo being part of the global US led evil empire economy)? You're not making much sense shahter.
AussieReaper wrote:
Intel indicators must be different to actual intel. Because there was never any concrete evidence and most countries didn't believe Iraq had WMDs.
Most countries?
Pretty much the majority of the western world did believe so. I can't speak for what the Chinese or Russians believed.
What is it really you're trying to say? That the evidence was 'doctored'? That all the hundreds or thousands of intelligence agents that were involved in the gathering of this information were actually all part of this evil plot to remove Saddam just because? Hurrdurr evil muricah?
I believe the major problem you people have is thinking the government is completely infallible. That mistakes cannot be made. That it is wholly impossible that the top officials who declared war on Iraq did so because they actually believed the evidence provided was accurate.
Surely it cannot be the case that errors were made (by humans no less)?
Now that we've been granted our 20/20 hindsight vision it's very easy to state that "Saddam never had any WMDs!" but if you just for a moment consider the pictures, the facts around his chemical, biological and most importantly nuclear research and do this with the period of 2001-2002 in mind it suddenly isn't so strange anymore to imagine that people were (rightfully) highly suspicious of Saddam, even to the point where war would be considered to stop him. Given his history, for anyone who actually read up on it, it makes a whole lot of sense. I doubt you or Dilbert did actually read anything though because you just like to talk shit about topics you know fuck all about.
Last edited by Shocking (2012-03-05 11:18:46)