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OT: Political IQ Test [message #67476] Thu, 19 February 2004 19:58 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
jorge the man
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Maybe the bush administration should stop and think before we go to war. See, if you look at past wars, in which countries have tried to impose a government on a people, just because the government works for them things have not ended up pretty. Take ww2 for example, the Nazis try to take over, and impose their communist gov't on the world. Didn't work. Now the Nazis are considered evil, But maybe in the Nazis opinion they were doing the right thing, and trying to convert the lesser gov'ts.

As a metaphor Africans were considered heathens for hundreds of years, because their religion was muslim, and the whites in power were christian. Slave traders brought them over to utilize their labor, and convert them to christianity. They thought that they were doing the right thing, and saving them from the heathen land. Now racists are considered evil.

We go into Iraq to take out the leader who is corrupt, but also to change the government to a democracy. We go over to utilize oil, and convert the gov't. We are considered evil over there because maybe, just maybe what works for us does not work for them. Where one form of democracy works for us (republic), it might not work for them. We say gosh, i wonder why they are mad at us. Hmmmm... maybe it's because they don't want their country to be taken over, and converted into a democracy, maybe its because we haven't been able to do what we tried.

See a similarity between the examples and the war on iraq, maybe there is a reason they hate us. Could it be that we think we are better than them, and the rest of the non democratic countries, and want them all to be a democracy, so that everyone will just get along.

Of course we are going to try and act like the good guys, and try to "rebuild the country" This means rebuilding buildings that WE bombed, possibly setting an economy that was not perfect when we arrived, but was a lot worse after we killed thousands, and dropped hundreds of missles. What we don't have to do is impose our government in their country.

Reasons for going to war with iraq:

To take out Saddam
To rebuild the government into a democracy
To rebuild the economy
To rid of Al queda links
To rid of WMD's

First thing we did when we arrived:

Took over all the oil mines to make sure that they were not harmed.

Well, golly, I didn't see "make sure that the oil supply for the US was safe, so that we could drive or eight mile to the gallon SUVs." First we make sure that the oil mines are not harmed at all, saying that it is an important strategic factor in the war, and that it is a key factor to rebuilding their economy. Then, we bomb the crap out of the capitol, kill hundreds of innocent people search for WMDs, take over Bahgdad, search for WMDs, capture saddam, search for WMDs some more, finnally tell the world about the false intelegence, blaim it on the CIA. Man... i don't know about you guys but this war to me seems to be just a little bit faulty, and a benefit to us more than Iraq. That's just possibly ironic, seeing as the war was started for "the Iraqi's well being."


Just becasue my name is jorge doesn't mean that i am an illegal immagrant.
 
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