Then where is it?

Why would we go to war in Iraq when we have trillions of barrels here?

darwin on December 7, 2012 at 10:12 AM

Then where is what? Saddam invaded Kuwait over claims that they were slant drilling into Iraq’s oil fields (among other oil-related affairs, such as charges of over-production). We went to war over it. We weren’t invaded, we weren’t attacked, but we went to war over it.

How is that not about oil?

I don’t advocate standing by and watching; I advocate that the United States cease its immoral policy of interventionism and do nothing. If other nations wish to intervene, that’s their business.

Dante on December 7, 2012 at 9:06 AM

I agree. We take the hard earned money of American taxpayers and waste on nonsense. We never seem to be able to leave these countries we go to war with. We are still in Japan, still in Germany, still in Kuwait, still in italy,… And when they heck are we going to allow South Korea to guard its own borders? We have about 60K soldiers on their border with North Korea, why don’t we allow the S. Koreans to protect themselves and put those 60K on our southern border.

The war was all about oil, and nothing else.

Dante on December 7, 2012 at 8:55 AM

Then where is it?

Why would we go to war in Iraq when we have trillions of barrels here?

Ayeah, I’m not an isolationist coward like Dante, I’m just sick and tired of us ALWAYS having to be the ones that Do Something. If absolutely nothing else we’re broke…

MelonCollie on December 7, 2012 at 9:39 AM

I did 10 years in the Marine Corps, to include 3 tours in Iraq. These debacles have nothing to do with preserving and protecting the US Constitution or our homes. Not one…NOT ONE single marine or soldier is worth the lives of Syrians or Egyptians – or other countries. Let the Europeans deal with it, the the Chinese deal with it – I don’t care – but we are broke, and we still have Americans getting killed in that debacle called Afghanistan. I don’t know if Dante is a “coward” but there is a huge difference between non-intervention and isolationism.

I don’t advocate standing by and watching; I advocate that the United States cease its immoral policy of interventionism and do nothing. If other nations wish to intervene, that’s their business.

Dante on December 7, 2012 at 9:06 AM

So. You’d advocate to stand by and watch as Assad used Sarin on his own population ?
I advocate someone else deal with this crap for once, someone that isn’t the USA.

MoreLiberty on December 7, 2012 at 9:07 AM

This may just be the case. Clinton has met with the Russians. They are none to pleased with Syria’s behaivior recently. As they has more knowledge of Syria, they may be better equiped to “prevent” Assad from cutting loose.
Frankly, I am fine with that.

Say…how did Syria get chemical weapons in the first place? Wasn’t someone (the UN *cough* *cough*) supposed to be watching the world to make sure nations didn’t develop programs of mass destruction?

Or maybe they were smuggled from somewhere else?

Mitoch55 on December 7, 2012 at 9:39 AM

IIRC, Syria is one of but a few countries that HAS NOT signed on to the UN document that controls the manufacture and/or use of chemical weapons.
And, yes. There is much speculation that Iraq’s goodies ended up there.

Ayeah, I’m not an isolationist coward like Dante, I’m just sick and tired of us ALWAYS having to be the ones that Do Something. If absolutely nothing else we’re broke…

MelonCollie on December 7, 2012 at 9:39 AM

No, you’re just a coward who says the ME should be nuked into a parking lot.

And you don’t know the first thing about non-interventionism versus isolationism.

Say…how did Syria get chemical weapons in the first place? Wasn’t someone (the UN *cough* *cough*) supposed to be watching the world to make sure nations didn’t develop programs of mass destruction?

Or maybe they were smuggled from somewhere else?

Mitoch55 on December 7, 2012 at 9:39 AM

That is curious.

I don’t advocate standing by and watching; I advocate that the United States cease its immoral policy of interventionism and do nothing. If other nations wish to intervene, that’s their business.

Dante on December 7, 2012 at 9:06 AM

Um, that’s like the same thing.

I advocate someone else deal with this crap for once, someone that isn’t the USA.

MoreLiberty on December 7, 2012 at 9:07 AM

Ayeah, I’m not an isolationist coward like Dante, I’m just sick and tired of us ALWAYS having to be the ones that Do Something. If absolutely nothing else we’re broke…