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offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2003-04-13 11:13 [#00648218]
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2842.htm


 

offline Morgoth from Stella-town (Belgium) on 2003-04-13 11:18 [#00648231]
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Interesting.

You know what really bothered me?
Rumsfeld!
Yesterday he was talking that media was bad because they
mentioned the chaos in Iraq. The media should focus on the
liberation of a country according to him. He was also
minimalising the chaos, saying that it was only marginal.
I've seen images enough not to believe Donald.

And one more thing, yesterday belgian television showed
which buildings were protected by the army. No ministery was
protected, besides the ministery oil.
It makes my believe stronger about what the real reason for
this war was...


 

offline xigoo from United Kingdom on 2003-04-13 11:26 [#00648238]
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the truth will out :)


 

offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2003-04-13 11:27 [#00648241]
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i've heard enough orwellian doublespeak come from donald's
mouth not to take anything he says without a big brick of
salt.


 

offline nlogax from oh, you must be the brains (Norway) on 2003-04-13 11:30 [#00648247]
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if oil was the purpose of war in this matter, the us
gov/world/whatever could just have withdrawn their sanctions
against iraq, and get their oil that way - sounds a hell of
a lot easier and cheaper to me to buy their oil at market
price rather than to launch a full-scale war which most
likely costs more no matter how you look at it.

I don't believe the oil-theory for a second - it's just a
logical consequence of it all.


 

offline Morgoth from Stella-town (Belgium) on 2003-04-13 11:33 [#00648250]
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It appeared to me the US wanted not to buy it cheap, but to
control oil industry.
But actually enough has been said about this matter here,
there's plenty of topics about it elsewhere, each and
everyone has their opinion which we probably will not
change...
I'm actually sorry I brought it up again.


 

offline nlogax from oh, you must be the brains (Norway) on 2003-04-13 11:35 [#00648253]
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yeah, to be perfectly honest, I don't know what I'm talking
about, so I should probably put a sock in it :)


 

offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2003-04-13 11:36 [#00648255]
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sorry to continue the topic, but my opinion is that it's not
so simple as a single motivation. i'm sure the oil was a
single motivation on top of others, including the fact that
bush truly believes in this war.


 

offline Morgoth from Stella-town (Belgium) on 2003-04-13 11:37 [#00648258]
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You're right, oil in itself probably was not enough, but as
ngolax said: we don't know enough about it I guess.


 

offline pachi from yo momma (United States) on 2003-04-13 11:39 [#00648260]
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yeah. it's undoubtedly quite a complex situation, but we all
have the right to express our concern.


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2003-04-13 11:40 [#00648261]
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We'll know how successful the Saddam-ousting was in a couple
of years when another couple of large American buildings
fall down go boom.


 

offline danbrusca from Derbyshire (United Kingdom) on 2003-04-13 11:52 [#00648277]
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Fraud my arse. The marines hardly have the square blocked
off, people can be seen entering and/or leaving bottom
right. In fact, having watched the whole thing on TV I can
say I saw people wandering in and out of the area all the
time.

The language to the right of the main image is disengenuous
too. It says 'The toppling of the statue was promoted as a
massive uprising'. Was it fuck. It was reported as a bunch
of people toppling a statue.

There would be no point in saying it was an uprising when at
that stage it was clear the Iraqis weren't going to put up
much of a defence. There was nothing for them to rise
against.

It's also worth noting that the square in question never
used to have very many people in it at the best of times, so
that photos is actually very busy compared to usual times.

Could the toppling have been instigated by pro-US militia?
Absolutely, but that's no surprise and the Iraqis would have
done it sooner or later anyway.


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2003-04-13 12:27 [#00648307]
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by going into this war america:
1) stimulated the weapons industry
2) gained control of the oil resources in iraq... as opposed
to having to buy them
3) whipped up america into a hateful frenzy which has
allowed them to crack down on civilian protestors without
fear of reprieve
4) gained territorial position for future conflicts with
Syria, Iran, etc.
5) gained a foothold in the gulf... as far as i know, the
intention is to build a pipeline that runs to the gulf,
where oil will be shipped to china: a country of over a
billion people who are becoming more and more oil dependant
6) further distracted Americans from horrendous economic
problems
7) stimulated further enmity with various anti-american
groups, which will hopefully cause another terrorist attack
on American soil, so that they can pass Patriot II
(http://www.dailyrotten.com/source-docs/patriot2draft.html)


 

offline AMinal from Toronto (Canada) on 2003-04-13 12:30 [#00648310]
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....i think the point is just that these kinds of events are
more staged than most poeple like to think and than the
media portrays them as...
i mean, likening it to the berlin wall is ridiculous..
but that site has its own very strong bias too..


 

offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2003-04-13 15:08 [#00648512]
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what is important is that this event was reported being in
the misdst of streets absolutely packed with iraqis and it
was supposed to represent the feeling of the larger
population of iraq. it was reported in various words that
this event = proof that iraqi's were mostly overjoyed, when
in fact the group was not that big. it was conmpared to the
berlin wall!


 

offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2003-04-13 15:10 [#00648515]
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what is important is that this event was reported being in
the misdst of streets absolutely packed with iraqis and it
was supposed to represent the feeling of the larger
population of iraq. it was reported in various words that
this event = proof that iraqi's were mostly overjoyed, when
in fact the group was not that big. it was conmpared to the
berlin wall! i'm sick of so much damned spin in "real
journalism." all the major american media sources are
misrepresenting everything surrounding this whole war.


 

offline etched from charlotte (United States) on 2003-04-13 15:22 [#00648521]
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well, that's how you become "american"
swallow all the propoganda they feed ya


 

offline X-tomatic from ze war room on 2003-04-13 18:34 [#00648734]
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I found it funny how the tearing down of yet another statue
was hailed worldwide as if it was Saddam himself that was
being pulled down. I also wonder what they promised the guy
who was holding up this picture of today's satan, bush or
did they solely film Kurdish crowds to make it look like the
whole of Iraq was suddenly welcoming and cheering the
unbelieving dogs that were the Americans not too long ago
according to the Arab world.


 

offline nacmat on 2003-04-13 18:51 [#00648749]
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at this stage I just dont know what to fucking believe


 

offline jupitah from Minneapolis (United States) on 2003-04-13 20:26 [#00648806]
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me too. i don't hands down just buy this hoax hypothesis,
but it bugs me that i can't remember seeing any coverage of
the statue scene from a distance that would prove the size
of the crowd that was claimed.


 

offline zaphod from the metaverse on 2003-04-13 20:59 [#00648822]
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the plot thickens


 


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