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Originally Posted by Jesus H Christ
Kane, we went there for 2 reasons. First, to secure a vulnerability in the world oil price fixing market. In short, did you know the overhead (2006) for a barrel of oil shipped to the US from Saudi Arabia is $3.85? The rest is profit.
Second, was to pick the battlefield to fight Islamic fanaticism. I actually thought this was a brilliant plan because all the weekend jihadists poured into Iraq to fight the infidels and we didn't have to chase them around the world or make deals with other governments.
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Your second argument, I've always found, is the weakest of them. "We are fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here."
That is such total BS when all it takes is 19 guys with box cutters to bring us to our knees. After that we had the shoe bomber(1 guy), the DC sniper (1 guy and a kid), the Virginia Tech shooter(1 guy), the anthrax mailer(1 guy) and many more. It has always amused me when people put that argument forth. It's even more amusing and even scary when people say that there weren't any terrorist attacks on us during Bush(WTF?! as if 9/11 never happened and Bush wasn't the president during the worst attack on us. See: Cheney, Liz Cheney, Hannity, Rudy, et al).