++ [ originally posted by Tom ] ++
we're not overwhelming anybody. Removing a ruthless dictator and trying to assist in setting up a new Democratic Iraq, free from fear of persecution. That's what we're trying to do. God knows why we bothered though.
If you believe that tripe then you and Tony Blair have the same weedman.
The greatest crimes in humanity have had some noble ideal as their public cornerstone, but the real motives have always been economic or imperialist.
The European powers claimed they were coming to civilise Africa, that they were taking God to the Godless, whereas they were actually coming for their own empire building exercises, and cheaper resources with which to fuel the Industrial Revolution. America went into Iraq claiming weapons of mass destruction were targeted at America, and so they had to go in to protect themselves. When they saw that that pig wouldn't fly if you pushed it out of a plane at 60,000 feet, they changed their tune. Suddenly they began singing about how they were taking democracy to the democracyless. Afterall, self-preservation is avarice, but to lay your life down for an ideal, and another man's "freedom", now there's a cause.
The real motive for the Iraq War is and will always be
oil. The least you people can do is be honest for fuck's sake.