All this by Rove just to create a "war president" and flag waving

[AlinPA]

for the election in '04.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2954716&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
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-- A new national survey paints a devastating portrait of life in Iraq: widespread violence, torn lives, displaced families, emotional damage, collapsing services, an ever starker sectarian chasm — and a draining away of the underlying optimism that once prevailed.

.....Eighty percent of Iraqis report attacks nearby — car bombs, snipers, kidnappings, armed forces fighting each other or abusing civilians. It's worst by far in the capital of Baghdad, but by no means confined there......

The personal toll is enormous. More than half of Iraqis, 53 percent, have a close friend or relative who's been hurt or killed in the current violence. One in six says someone in their own household has been harmed. Eighty-six percent worry about a loved one being hurt; two-thirds worry deeply. Huge numbers limit their daily activities to minimize risk. Seven in 10 report multiple signs of traumatic stress.
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[bryant69]

1. I don't know - there's also the Oil,

And the fact that they ideologically believed that they had a duty to remake the Middle East.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Toots]

3. Kind of all blends together like the Crack epidemic during the Contra wars

Smuggle Cocaine into the USA and make it dirt cheap by freebasing with baking soda and calling it crack then distributing it to people that are in a hopeless situation then launching a national drive to arrest and convict on felony charges mostly in black neighborhoods. A felony takes away their right to ever vote and on top of it all, they are paying to expand the Contra killings. Their scams are quite complex, of that there is no doubt but they are also quite evil in all regards..

[gatorboy]

4. The Bush admin wanted the oil.

Bush himself wanted to be seen as a war president. The right has been obsessed with this since the only REAL war president we've had was Roosevelt., a Democrat.

[emulatorloo]

5. "they had a duty to remake the Middle East" -- What gets me is we ALREADY knew the "domino theory"

was bogus from the days of communist histeria. Why anybody bought this "Middle East Democracy Domino Theory" is beyond me.

Unless you are cynical like me and see a money motivation behind it all.

[TwilightGardener]

2. Really, when I read this, I think of how dangerous

it is to continue to put more soldiers into Baghdad. Civil unrest is going to eventually be directed toward our occupying soldiers, and then it won't just be a civil war and some insurgents making trouble--it will be the average Iraqi on the street turning on us there.

[emulatorloo]

6. And you forgot unlimited profits for Dick Cheney's Halliburton and KBR eom