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I was really caught up in this story and the effort involved until ... "I wonder if these techniques caught on, could this reduce or eliminate US war for oil?"
by jebblue 12y ago
I was really caught up in this story and the effort involved until ... "I wonder if these techniques caught on, could this reduce or eliminate US war for oil?" and then "If I wrote this article 20 years ago might we have never gone to war with Iraq?".
Iraq was _not_, repeat, NOT, N O T, about oil. Iraq was about stability, about a nut case leader who terrorized and killed his own people, who let his sons terrorize people. It was about all the terrorists caught who had evaded worldwide, WORLDWIDE authorities for decades in many cases, found hiding out in ... Iraq.
Hussein disregarded Bush elder, Clinton and Bush junior, covering 3 US Presidencies, both major US political parties. He shot missiles at the very ally planes charged with making him keep his army at bay.
He plotted to kill the very US President (Bush elder) who forced him to back out of Kuwait:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/iraq/timeline/062793.htm http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/iraq/tim...
- jtheory 12y agoVoted down, then responding in case you don't know why: this is a discussion about micro-heaters. Yes, it's a bit disagreeable to run across even minor, aside comments that disagree with something you believe strongly, but please just deal with that on your own time. Because of course your comment will be unpleasant for people to read who feel just as passionately that you're wrong, and some of them may be compelled to post wall-o-text comments here to rebut your claims. Here, in this discussion about micro-heaters.
- jebblue 12y agoThe article was about saving energy using a specific approach _until_ the article's author took the side trip into world politics.
- jebblue 12y agoPS, this, "Voted down, then responding in case you don't know why" is passive aggressive.
- jtheory 12y agoSorry, it's not the intended vibe -- people complain when they're voted down w/o explanation, so I'm trying to avoid that. I mostly want to improve future discussions, not scold/shame people; my own posts aren't always on-topic and informative, though I like the goal.
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- jebblue 12y agoYou mean, the ones that _did_ exist according to Clinton: http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/wmdquotes.asp http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/wmdquotes.asp http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/12/16/transcripts/clinton.html http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/12/16/transcript...
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