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Tue Jan-18-05 09:50 AM
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According to a Bachelor's thesis, there have been 25 different rationales for the iraq war, and 23 that can be attributed directly to the administration. The list is here: http://watchingthewatchers.org/index.php?p=262~A! |
| KurtNYC
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Tue Jan-18-05 09:55 AM
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| 1. Thats a resource - thanks |
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Tue Jan-18-05 11:07 AM
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I was getting a lot of emails asking me to dig it up, so I did. Thankfully someone else had done the hard research ahead of me, and I only had to glean it. The thesis itself is fantastic.
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Tue Jan-18-05 09:57 AM
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| 2. They missed "petrodollar hegemony"... oops!. |
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Edited on Tue Jan-18-05 10:03 AM by BlueEyedSon
The backstory is that if OPEC or any big oil producer moves away from the dollar (to the euro, say) it will damage the dollar's role as a reserve currency.
Saddam was (or was about to) trade oil in euros. Plus, with Iraq - and it's world's-second-largest oil reserves - under the contol of a US puppet, we have a big seat at the OPEC table.
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Tue Jan-18-05 11:06 AM
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| 3. That's information I didn't have |
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Thanks, I never even thought about that. Wow.
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Tue Jan-18-05 11:40 AM
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| 5. Here are some links. (Is that your thesis?) |
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