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Originally posted by Phoenix-D:

I'll ask this, intead of berating you like I want to.

If it is about oil, and everything you mentioned, why Iraq? Most of the 9/11 hijackers came from Saudi Arabi, which is only marginally friendly to the US and has more oil.

Phoenix-D

I am not sure what the mystery is it's not about 9/11 - if it were W would attempt to solve the Israel/Palestinian issue (for instance) because that conflict is the main recruiting tool for terrorist. It's not about WMD because there are more dangerous countries that have these and we aren't doing anything about it.

All you guys sound so Naive I just read today that we will keep a couple of HUNDRED thousand troops in Iraq for at least two YEARS if not more.

All you gamers out there think about - I know (if I were playing a war game and some of those games are based on reality) I would want a huge protection force on top of MY most precious commodity. Fortunately for us Iraq gives us an excuse to just move them there.