Reply #17: But it's all for such a GREAT CAUSE!

[LynnTheDem]

"US troops are not in Iraq for the Iraqis...They are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating a region on which the energy supplies of the industrial democracies depend."
-Kissenger
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?section=opinion&xfile=data/opinion/2007/january/opinion_january62.xml

"I know some Americans don't think that is a threat. I view it as a threat because — and the reason it's a threat is I can conceivably see a world in which radicals and extremists control oil. And they would say to the West: You either abandon Israel, for example, or we're going to run the price of oil up."
-George W. "I'm a rightwingnut stupid MFer" bUsh
http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/story?id=2594541&page=2

It's worth uniformed US citizens dying to protect OIL!
George w. bush says so!