Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head

Depends on who you talk to and what you believe. I believe we are in both locations for no other reason than to secure that region until the last drop of oil is pumped out. After that, we will pull out faster than a 16 year old kid scared of parenting. My problem with that lies not in what we are doing, but the way we went about doing it. We can't be upfront and public about invading other countries for oil, so we create "situations" to rally patriotic support of the public to invade under a lie.

Anyone with the ability to reason can easily figure out we are not sacrificing our soldiers and spending billions upon billions to look around the Afghani countryside for one man. That is utterly ridiculous and insulting to anyone over the age of 2. And it's not because we give a shit about the Afghani people and their "plight" with the Taliban. Look how fast we ditch countries that have nothing to offer us: Somalia.

Iraq is no different. We aren't in either location to "win the war". We are there to secure property. Nothing more, nothing less.