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snot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-02-06 03:17 AM Original message |
We Must Ask: What DO They Gain by Prolonging the War? |
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Vexatious Ape (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-02-06 03:22 AM Response to Original message |
1. They gain nothing at all. |
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greeneyedboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-02-06 03:22 AM Response to Original message |
2. i think it ha$ $omething to do with co$t-plu$ contract$ for their friend$ and donor$ |
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ConsAreLiars (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-02-06 03:30 AM Response to Original message |
3. They are madmen. Ideologues who think the world is a chessboard |
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bobbie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-02-06 03:45 AM Response to Original message |
4. This is important to understand--Rich moguls get richer during war |
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JohnnyLib2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-02-06 03:48 AM Response to Original message |
5. holy war in some's minds |
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Norrin Radd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-02-06 03:49 AM Response to Original message |
6. The answer is in this doc, Iraq For Sale: |
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raysr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-02-06 03:51 AM Response to Original message |
7. Oil, oil, OIL! |
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MGD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-02-06 03:52 AM Response to Original message |
8. No nation has ever benefitted from a protracted war, so says Sun Tzu. |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-02-06 04:24 AM Response to Original message |
9. They hope to keep people in fear, and therefore stay in power. |
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radfringe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-02-06 04:50 AM Response to Original message |
10. power and money |
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Jacobin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-02-06 04:52 AM Response to Original message |
11. postponing loss of face |
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izzie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-02-06 05:15 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. I sort of like this one. Bush can not get out. It is his ego. |
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casus belli (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-02-06 05:05 AM Response to Original message |
12. Google: Halliburton, Lockheed Martin, Bechtel and Aegis, then follow the money. n/t |
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Johnny Appleseed (120 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-02-06 05:10 AM Response to Original message |
13. They will start bringing them back in '08 before the presidential |
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Matariki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-02-06 05:16 AM Response to Original message |
15. It's called 'raiding the treasury' son |
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leftchick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-02-06 06:16 AM Response to Original message |
16. The Kurds have asked for a US base in the North |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-02-06 06:17 AM Response to Original message |
17. Profits |
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MiniMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-02-06 08:27 AM Response to Reply #17 |
20. Exatly, Bush enriches his friends however he can |
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Auggie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-02-06 06:27 AM Response to Original message |
18. It's not what they gain, it's what they lose. |
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JCMach1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-02-06 08:00 AM Response to Original message |
19. Oil companies and Arms Suppliers and contractors |
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shah269 (21 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-02-06 08:41 AM Response to Original message |
21. A perpetual boggy man to use for re-election! Works like a charm! |
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newportdadde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-02-06 08:53 AM Response to Original message |
22. We will be there till the last drop of oil is pumped out. |
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