Reply #21: Democrats won't touch this issue because they want to get [View All]

[paulk]

as far away from this sort of conspiracy mongering as possible.


First off - as another poster points out - you can't put Afghanistan and Iraq into the same basket. Afghanistan was invaded to bring down a regime that was harboring a terrorist organization that had attacked the United States. Why do you need some other, darker motive? Putting a friendly regime in Afghanistan was just a bonus - but if the motive was to keep that regime in power - why has the Bush administration totally neglected Afghanistan and allowed the Taliban to make a comeback?


And isn't the neocon craziness in Iraq enough? This idea that overthrowing Saddam would lead to democracy and a stable government - and that this example would spread across the entire middle east? And who, at this point, believes that WMD was anything other than an excuse? That's a red herring.

I'm sure oil was a motive, in that the US has always wished for stability in that part of the world - to the point of supporting several corrupt dictatorships to get it. That, in it's own way, is bad enough - you don't need to tack this "oil grab" conspiracy theory on top of it.