[rextorres]

Actually they sent special forces into the oil fields to guard them before the bombing started - that's how they were able to disable the boobie traps.

A senior administration official admits that Iraq was important because of the oil. Bush and Cheney are oil men and most of their political contributions came from the energy industry which has a huge interest in getting Iraqi oil contract.

It's been admitted that WMD were just an excuse - they've caught most of the senior people that would know of the weapons plus all their underlings and despite huge monetary rewards they all say there were no weapons.

If it was for humanitarian reason their are plenty odf countries with EXTREMELY worse humanitarian records -than Iraq and Bush and Co. ignore it - so I don't buy that argument.

I suppose it goes against the vision of the world that some people want to have of the U.S. as the good guys, but historically wars for the most part have been fought for resources.

[ June 05, 2003, 20:45: Message edited by: rextorres ]