Reply #15: Thanks...what's amazing is, that it can seem so simple, but when the RW [View All]

[KoKo]

and war supporters get ahold of it, they can distort it so, that we start to question the "simplicity of the idea" that now that Iraqi's are relieved of Saddam, shouldn't they be able to be free to get on with their own lives with just a little humanitarian aid from UN. After all they lived under UN sanctions for over a decade, and survived.

They have Engineers, Lawyers, Contractors, Businessmen, etc. who are highly educated and should be perfectly capable of negotiating their own contracts with companies of "their choice" and paying for work with their oil revenue which was controlled by UN with sanctions. Now that Shrub says the Oil Wells are secure and outputting more than with Saddam why can't the Iraqi's be trusted to deal with their own interests?

Why do we get caught up in this propaganda that they are "brown people" and therefore somehow educationally and mentally inferior to us?

How???