big jon's 240 wrote:
Oh, and freakmech, people who think that this whole think with the middle east is over oil is just plain ignorant! Trust me i know this for a fact.
Not for nothing man, but why else would the U.S. have been involved in that part of the world for over a decade now? If they really wanted to get rid of saddam, they could've been done with it a long time ago. Why would you make an entire country pay for the actions of one man? I lived in Jordan during the gulf war, we're neighbors with Iraq, and some of the stuff the refugees had went through was just monstrous. If you want saddam, go for him, instead of periodically bombing the country and placing sanctions on Iraq, because ultimately its the Iraqi people that suffer, not saddam. The only other reason I would think of U.S heavy u.s. involvment in the area would be israeli security, but c'mon man, it's all about the oil. North Korea already came out and told everyone that they DO possess nuclear weapons, and the u.s isn't really doing anything about that. This might all sound like biased b.s to some of you, but I'm just saying what I saw when I lived there.