02-23-2003, 07:15 PM
Quote:I can't do that if the arguments presented are wrong, based on falsehoods, or illogical.
True. Your opinions certainly do not become much more clarified by misrepresenting my arguments and then attacking them in a blind rage. I don't know what that says for my arguments, only that you clearly have a bone to pick with the peace movement.
Kandrathe :
Quote:My prediction is that you will be wrong, and that the French and the Russians will get the oil contracts they've already signed.
That's interesting. So, if people are attackinh the French/Russians and so on for being in on the money, what exactly are they afraid of in that the deals will hold? That's an interesting point. Actually, to back you up...
Quote:Meanwhile, outraged Iraqi exiles report that there won't be any equivalent of postwar de-Nazification, in which accomplices of the defeated regime were purged from public life. Instead the Bush administration intends to preserve most of the current regime: Saddam Hussein and a few top officials will be replaced with Americans, but the rest will stay.
So, essentially the same government will remain in power post-war, and you're probably right, the deals with that government will remain much the same. However, the oil in the north I'm then not so sure of...
Quote:Turkey has reportedly been offered the right to occupy much of Iraqi Kurdistan. Yes, that's right: as we move to liberate the Iraqis, our first step may be to deliver people who have been effectively independent since 1991 into the hands of a hated foreign overlord. Moral clarity!
I'm just quoting a source here, though. These are new facts for me.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/21/opinion/21KRUG.html
Blech.