2/10 Powell's going to burst a vessel, Rumsfeld won't know what to do,
and Bush won't say anything until Friday at the earliest. I bet
they didn't expect Putin to publicly back France/Germany on expanded
inspections.
\_ Bush does not care what any of these countries think, why should he?
We will be at war with Iraq in six weeks, tops.
\_ France and Germany have already admitted Iraq has WMD. To them,
the question is one of economics and their trade relationship with
Iraq. This is what happens when Greens involve themselves
in international affairs.
\_ Wait, kind of like the Union Banking Corporation (director
Prescott Bush, grandfather of current president) financing
Nazi industry in WWII? The only reason US companies aren't
complaining is because of Sept 11 and bad PR.
\_ This analogy makes no sense at all. So you, as an anti-
corporate Chomskite, are the arch public relations
corporate Chomskyite, are the arch public relations
officer for the entire Fortune 500 and speak
as their representative? I guess we are fortunate to
have you on the motd.
\_ Both of these arguments carry little weight. I could
just as easily argue that Republican Texas-raised Bush
and his old cronies seek control over a major oil
source to counter OPEC. After all, Dubya's National
Security Adviser has an oil tanker named after her,
\_ The US doesn't care about the WMD either.
from where she used to work.
\_ Not "work"; she was on the
board of directors. Hardly
the same thing.
\_ And triangulating the Saudis would be a bad idea?
We can't go after them directly.
\_ The US doesn't care about the WMD either. It is all about
economics on both sides.
\_ I thought it was more about the US having a huge, costly force
commitment.
\_It's all about control that extra 8% (whatever) of oil
reserve. It's all about expanding the sphere of influence
into that region. In the long run, controlling these oil
reserve worth a lot more than billions of dollars we
dump... at least what is what the president-I-didn't-vote-
for think. This is pure US aggression, imperalism at
it's finest since the Opium War 150 years ago.
\_ Right... the U.S.'s blatant history of
naked aggresion and military / economic
subversion of its sphere of influence.
Anyways, its much better to let the Soviets
brilliant histoy of allying itself with militant
militant Islam for example.
or EU control the region. Take France's
brilliant history of allying itself with
militant Islam for example - we need more of
this. Enforcing UN resolutions is
imperialism now is it?
Where were all of you sanctimonious pacifists
when Clinton wanted to do the exact same thing
in 1998 or when we saved the EU's ass in the
Balkans.
\_ You tell em! Nader in 2004! Four more years!
\_ Wasn't the Opium War by the British? |
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