I hate the bully mentality our leadership seems to have.
We dislike Saddam cuz he's a jerk and he doesn't do things like us. They have oil. We want oil. Let's devise a way to take it. Leaders in the past have been re-elected for starting and doing well in wars. We want to be re-elected. War helps the economy. We like that. Also gets us re-elected. The weapon thing might get people in a rage. Everyone has weapons, but nobody likes them so nobody wants them to have weapons. Let's use that.
It'd be nice to think that perhaps they were acting on some intelligence information that they can't tell us, but I kinda doubt it. We're just bullying to get stuff and to control other people, and then trying to rationalize it (poorly). Not cool.
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Date: 2003-03-17 04:09 pm (UTC)We dislike Saddam cuz he's a jerk and he doesn't do things like us.
They have oil. We want oil. Let's devise a way to take it.
Leaders in the past have been re-elected for starting and doing well in wars. We want to be re-elected.
War helps the economy. We like that. Also gets us re-elected.
The weapon thing might get people in a rage. Everyone has weapons, but nobody likes them so nobody wants them to have weapons. Let's use that.
It'd be nice to think that perhaps they were acting on some intelligence information that they can't tell us, but I kinda doubt it. We're just bullying to get stuff and to control other people, and then trying to rationalize it (poorly). Not cool.