You cant kill a feeling Options

[Noodles]

Well we call it a war on terror, but it will never end. terror is a feeling people recieve therefore it wont go away so i believe this is a pointless war, or as I like to call it Vietnam 2. there have been more deaths over there since weve been there. there wouldve been way less if we just kept to our selves. countries need to help themselves before they can help others.

[Genocide Junkie]

Hellfighter :"And get this sorted too; those of you who also believe in the popular myth the French are fence sitters- 2000 French troops are in Afghanistan"

Do a little research into the French and Russian involvment in Iraq regarding arms trade as well as the oil for food program. Then ask yourself why wouldnt France and Russia want to oust Sadam? They clearly were not sitting on a fence. They were on the other side collecting riches. Follow the money..... that usually answers most questions.

For your reading pleasure in case you don't want to research yourself.

http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20040321-101405-2593r.htm

From Wikipedia regarding terror link to program and thus Iraq and Sadam

The scandal engulfing the United Nations Procurement Department and the Oil for Food Programme involved IHC Services and Al-Qaeda finance operations. IHC was investigated in the summer of 2005 after FOX News broke the story that IHC was involved with Alexander Yakovlev, a Russian official in the UN Procurement Department, who later resigned and pled guilty to corruption charges. One of the shareholders of IHC's holding company was Engelbert Schreiber, Jr., who has been linked to Ahmed Idris Nasreddin, a man designated as a terrorist financier by the US and the UN. The UN has named Nasreddin as a man "belonging to or affiliated with Al Qaeda." IHC also had connections to Saddam Hussein's former regime through Petra Navigation Group, a company that advertises itself as IHC's agent in the Middle East. Petra Navigation was on the blacklist of firms blocked from doing business with the U.S. for sanctions-busting activities designed to help Saddam's regime. [14]

I don't have time to find sources about Russian weapons in Iraq but I believe that there has been a link between the two. I know for a fact that Russia was fighting to have sanctions lifted from Iraq before 2003 so that they could sell military equipment. For a country that has very little to feed itself with it comes as no surprise that they would look to sell the one thing they do have plenty of.....


So to say that France and Russian among others did not participate in Iraq simply because they didnt agree with the politics of it is short sighted. They were making money hand over fist illegally and didnt want the gravy train to end. Also while there is no direct link from Sadam to Osama there are clear ties from Iraq to terrorist who sponsor al qaeda.

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