Re: [OT] Cr*ppy Belgium
well, i probably shouldnt start talking about my ideas on politics. regarding the situation in Mesopotamia though, yes Iraq has weapons of mass destruction. we gave them to them to use against the Iranians to defend against their "human wave" attacks, a trick that they probably learned from the Russians. or maybe its just a timeless oldie.
Regarding justification for war, no we dont need any more. But no one gives a **** about Iraq, its weapons, or its human rights abuses. Just like no one cares about the human rights abuses in the Congo, or anywhere else. People care about money, oil, and power. now dont get me wrong, i like those things. our economy runs on money, and we get alot of that from oil. sure, a utopian paradise could do very well with alternate fuel systems, but we dont live in one of those. so its time to get used to it. the people in power like oil, and use it to get more money and power. sometime, it might dry up. but right now, its worth spending alot of money and lives to control. thats just the way it goes.
no one fought in south east asia for good an right, we did it for rubber, and money, and power. Im tired of all the global policeman make-believe. the people of all the other countries in the world think we are a bunch of dicks. their governments support us because they have to, not because their people want them to. if we are going to start this globalization / imperialist / hegemony stuff, lets stop kidding arround and just do it. no one is falling for the propaganda anyway.
lets slap some "Standard Oil" logos on the tails of our fighter jets, and get this over with.
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