What if Bush had been right about Iraq all along?

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Originally Posted by dissention

It's not so much that it's because they're Muslims, it's that the United States sees nothing to gain from helping them. If they don't benefit, they want nothing to do with anything. Look at Sudan. We did nothing there to stop the genocide. Look at the dozen other police countries around the world other than Iraq. For Bush and his administration to even claim that we were invading Iraq to free the people is beyond absurd. What do you tell the citizens of the other police states like, as you pointed out, Uzbekistan? That you're sorry you can't help them because they don't have enough oil or because helping them couldn't have won you the election? It's sick.

Exactly, we go where our "interests" lie, and they lie with money, all cuddled up in bed with it.

Could someone tell me WTF was up with the purple finger thing? I keep hearing about purple fingers. Why have they desecrated my favorite color???? And the staged Iraqi voter/Mom of dead soldier moment really makes me ill. No doubt their affection for each other is genuine but they were planted.