Reply #7: Blame AIPAC and give a free pass to Big Oil, Halliburton, Saudi Arabia, and the Miltary/Industrial.. [View All]

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Complex. AIPAC does not determine U.S. policy. For sure it goes along with what these other groups promote in order to maintain a connection to the regime currently in power. However, it is ludicrous to think that AIPAC could change American policy if it contradicted what Big Oil, et al. had already planned on doing.

Israel knew that Iraq had no nuclear capability since Israel had destroyed Iraq's nuclear facility in the early 1980's. In fact, Reagan/Daddy Bush criticized Israel for this action, since Reagan/Daddy Bush were supplying their good buddy Saddam with WMD's. Israel was more concerned with Syria and Iran and their incursions into Lebanon, than they were with Iraq. The invasion of Iraq was pure and simple a Bush/Cheny grab for Iraq's oil plus a chance for companies like Halliburton to make huge war profits.

Concentrating on AIPAC as the source of American foreign policy fiascos instead of placing the responsibility where it rightly belongs (Big Oil, Halliburton, Military/Industrial complex, Saudi Arabia) is giving the groups actually responsiblea a free pass on their chicanery.