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grahamhgreen

(15,741 posts) Wed Jun 18, 2014, 10:18 PM Jun 2014

Can anyone give a positive reason to escalate in Iraq? Anyone?

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Can anyone give a positive reason to escalate in Iraq? Anyone? (Original Post) grahamhgreen Jun 2014 OP

Could it drive up oil prices, or affect who has access to it, and how reliable that access is? arcane1 Jun 2014 #1

I don't even have that. 840high Jun 2014 #2

Good for the munitions and casket businesses. JEB Jun 2014 #3

because it's rope-a-dope! (somehow...) nt MisterP Jun 2014 #4

Well we could make the rich richer. JaneyVee Jun 2014 #5

We'll be greated as liberators! Chan790 Jun 2014 #6

Nope, but I feel sick for the decent people there Armstead Jun 2014 #7

To steal more oil and murder more innocent civilians AgingAmerican Jun 2014 #8

arcane1

(38,613 posts)

1. Could it drive up oil prices, or affect who has access to it, and how reliable that access is?

Reply to grahamhgreen (Original post)

Wed Jun 18, 2014, 10:22 PM

Jun 2014

If so, it could be seen as "positive" for the very small number of people who profit from such things.

That's all I got.

840high

(17,196 posts)

2. I don't even have that.

Reply to arcane1 (Reply #1)

Wed Jun 18, 2014, 10:40 PM

Jun 2014

JEB

(4,748 posts)

3. Good for the munitions and casket businesses.

Reply to grahamhgreen (Original post)

Wed Jun 18, 2014, 10:42 PM

Jun 2014

MisterP

(23,730 posts)

4. because it's rope-a-dope! (somehow...) nt

Reply to grahamhgreen (Original post)

Thu Jun 19, 2014, 01:03 AM

Jun 2014

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)

5. Well we could make the rich richer.

Reply to grahamhgreen (Original post)

Thu Jun 19, 2014, 01:08 AM

Jun 2014

Haven't they suffered enough.

Chan790

(20,176 posts)

6. We'll be greated as liberators!

Reply to grahamhgreen (Original post)

Thu Jun 19, 2014, 01:15 AM

Jun 2014

If we keep saying it, it'll be true eventually.

Right?

right?

[font size="1"]right?[/font]

(Nope. I got nothing.)

Armstead

(47,803 posts)

7. Nope, but I feel sick for the decent people there

Reply to grahamhgreen (Original post)

Thu Jun 19, 2014, 01:18 AM

Jun 2014

Nuthing we can do to stop the assholishness that is destroying their country, as it has in so many places.

But it sucks.

AgingAmerican

(12,958 posts)

8. To steal more oil and murder more innocent civilians

Reply to grahamhgreen (Original post)

Thu Jun 19, 2014, 01:44 AM

Jun 2014

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