Afghanistan, Iraq and maybe Iran: always the same story.
By andben
@andben (1074)
Italy
February 26, 2007 3:57am CST
They repeat always the same words, they have to go to that country to save that people because they are oppressed by that dictator.
There are many countries governed by a dictator, for example Cuba and some countries in the South of America, why these countries aren't considered?
According to me the reason is simple: Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran has a thing in common: oil.
We know USA spend a lot of oil because USA people has car with big engines that consume very much oil, and USA hasn't sufficient oil for its consumption, so USA tries to make agreements with other countries to buy oil and when USA can't succeed attacks countries to conquer its oil wells.
4 responses
@MrNiceGuy (4139)
• United States
27 Feb 07
The US does have enough oil. We may use the most because of our dependence on cars, but our oil is about 2-3 times cheaper than that in the UK.
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@Smith2028 (797)
• United States
26 Feb 07
They also have one other thing in common that Cuba doesn't bring to the table yet... terrorism. Each of the countries we have liberated from terroristic regimes were violently opposed to the US. They were willing to use violence and fear to obtain and keep power.
Castro and Hugo Chavez may despise the US, but they aren't going to extremes to keep his powers and enforce his views.
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@FrancyDafne (2047)
• Italy
26 Feb 07
I agree with you Andben.
U.S. and European countries attack only for the same reason: economical reasons. There are never humanitarian reasons, so, why Bush Senior, when attacked and defeated Saddam, did't save Kurds? Because he attacked only for defending Kuwait, only for economical reasons. And his son Bush junior did the same, he knew that Saddam had no mass destruction weapons, and yet he attacked because Saddam had just decided to use Euro currency not dollar currency anymore. It's the same dirty story: economy rules, nothing else.
@tatzkie (644)
• Philippines
26 Feb 07
Oil... black gold... indeed is the reason for the recent years invasions of the middle east countries. Sad but the people of world are made to believe that such campaigns are done in the name of democracy... but the fact is ... it wealth and profit that is the main impetus of these wars. And after all war is the best business for the powerful nations as far as the devil's theory is concern in international studies.
