[arete]

I followed you up until the "war for more power" line.

Well what I'm saying is that Saddam is an easy target and he makes it easy for the propaganda machine to villainize him. We are focusing our attention on Iraq because it will be easy to grab their oil under the cover of a terrorist threat. It is an economic war. If you want to talk terrorism, then I think we should be looking at the biggest sponsors of terrorism like Iran. You could go on with Egypt and the Saudis. Really, how many Iraqis were on the 9/11 planes? This raises more questions in my mind as to where our concerns are and I believe that it is more about oil than terrorism right now.

Richard W.

[steveegg]

Who has chemical and biological weapons, an active nuclear research program and the willingness to spend cold hard cash to help further the Islamist cause? While Saudi Arabia has the finances (and the House of Saud IS, IMHO, Al-Qaeda), it doesn't have the chemicals, the bios or the nukes to give the puppet terrorists.

If it were the oil, we would have arranged a coup in Venezuela by now because they have almost as much oil as Iraq, and it's MUCH easier to get the oil here from Caracas than Basra.

My prefered method of warfare west of Iran is to form up in Turkey and march south until we hit the Indian Ocean (thus taking care of Saudi Arabia and Yemen). At the same time, we secure Pakistan (the only current Islamic nuclear power), then form up and march west until we hit the Euphrates.