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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Omega: [QB] *GASP* You mean he formulated an energy policy with the advice of people who [i]knew something about energy[/i]!? How DARE he! Just who do you suggest [i]should[/i] have been on that committee, instead? [i]Because it is a decision based on (corporate) greed?[/i] Again, baseless. This is all hypothetical, of course, seeing as there [i]are[/i] many obvious differences between Korea and Iraq, but IF there weren't, and IF we operate on the false assumption that [trying to turn a profit == greed == bad], just what's wrong with corporations trying to make money? Just how do [i]you[/i] think the vast majority of the people in this country get paid? How do you think this or any other economy, including the future Iraqi economy, exists? Because, horror of horrors, private companies organize peoples' skills in an efficient manner, use those skills to make money, and pay those employees for their services! What you call greed is actually legitimate economic activity. What alternative do you propose, anyway? That the oil goes forever undeveloped, and that all the potential increases in living standards it could bring to the Iraqi people never happen? 'Cause unless you have another option, that's exactly what's going to happen if you get what you seem to want. [i]Then the quest to liberate the people of Iraq appears to become secondary[/i] Again, baseless, and increasingly absurd. We already control the oil, and we're still moving towards Baghdad. And before you ask the obvious dumb question, "Why did we save the oil first?", it's because the oil was under immediate threat from Hussein, and the civilians in Baghdad aren't. [i]So do you agree that the decision for war was based on oil then?[/i] No. Only in a hypothetical universe that has nothing to do with reality, as I stated. [i]Yes, maybe Saddam would have been closer to building a WMD before North Korea is. But surely the U.N. would have found something to signify this.[/i] Like all those SCUDs they found? The inspectors were utterly useless, and Sadaam himself proved it better than we ever could. Deal with it. [i]A Communist nation to keep another Communist nation in check? Now that's interesting. Especially from a guy who dislikes (and distrusts) the Chinese government. Now THAT'S a baseless argument.[/i] And that was rather incoherant. If there's some great brotherhood among so-called communist governments, somebody'd better go back in time and tell the USSR and PRC that. And further, what does my trusting or liking the PRC have to do with anything? Of course I don't trust the Chinese government, to do what they say they'll do, to keep the peace, to just generally be a decent government from any possible perspective. But I trust them to be who they are, and they don't like North Korea. I thus trust their presence on Kim's ass to keep them in check to some degree. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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