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Originally posted by LeeTheDestroyer
The United States of America is going down. For the last century we have bled our nation dry in order to aid countries both for our benefit and in the name of democratic monopolization. Yet as we give and take from the world, internally everything has been seized and taken away so that soon there will be nothing left, there will be no country left.
This nation fights wars, invades countries, and generally tends to make a mess of things in the name of capitalism, profit, and prosperity for everyone, so long as it fills the wallet. We cannot be expected to survive this way forever. As tyranny grips nations abroad, naturally we intend to destroy such tyranny, yet at the same time tyranny has taken root within our own country, living and thriving in broad daylight, hiding under the banner of the “amended constitution”. There is nothing that we can do, our system of living will always lead to this, will always compel us to aid, and at the same time ignore our own blemishes, and until eventually they become one in the same.
We are a broken country that needs refreshment, needs to leave the world alone and regain our own health, needs to fix our own problems, and needs to stop worrying about global power, money, and national influence. But how can that happen? It can’t. Not now that we have tasted the fruit of outsourced labor, international trade, exploitation of natural resources abroad. When we strip the land of another nation, it is not our problem; it is swept under the rug known as the media. How hard is it to change when our consumerism is so easily tolerated by a world that cannot push us into submission?
We cannot change, we will not go quietly, and this country will go down in flames before we have to give up this lifestyle that we have gained. Yet the world acts like it is the individual fault of every member of this country. Let me tell you this here now. Most people just want to be left alone to pursue their own wishes. We do not want to make hard decisions, we do not want to exploit other nations, but guess what, it happens. Somewhere down the line, someone has to make the hard choices, someone has to take action, and someone has to take the blame. Otherwise this lifestyle could not exist, it could not sustain itself.
What do you expect? What empire on earth has ever peacefully fluttered out? The United Kingdom cannot judge us for hanging onto this crazy ideal, for they do the same to this day. They know what it is like, what globalization feels like, and they know how hard the fall is. That empire is all but gone, and yes, it went down in flames, flames that are still burning to this day. How could one assume that ours will not do the same in due time? There is no alternative, there is no escape. The American empire is doomed, just the same as every empire that came before it was also doomed from the beginning.
We ride the wave, for there is nothing else that can be done.
What is the real reason for the US being in Iraq
Originally posted by ucalien
reply to post by zatara
What is the real reason for the US being in Iraq
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'Cos Iraq is placed over the remains of Sumer, the ancient empire raised by bearded giant humanoid aliens that used watches in their wrists, half-millions years ago???
Originally posted by AlreadyGone
To get a new perspective of the world, take a map and turn it upside down and then look at the countries and their relation to each other.
Originally posted by Neo__
What is the real reason for the US being in Iraq?
In a word I would say "imperialism", with the threat of terrorism and oil being the justifiers.
Originally posted by OLD HIPPY DUDE
A strategic location?
The theory goes futher back than you realize.
TOP 10 OIL RESERVES * COUNTRY TOP 10 OIL PRODUCERS #
and year
oil discovered
1 * SAUDI ARABIA 1 #
1938
8 * RUSSIA 2 #
2 * CANADA N/A
N/A NORWAY 3 #
3 * IRAN 4 #
1908
4 * IRAQ N/A
1927
5 * KUWAIT 7 #
1938
7 * VENEZUELA 5 #
6 * U.A.E 6 #
1936
10 * NIGERA 8 #
9 * LIBIA N/A
N/A MEXICO 9 #
N/A MEANS IT'S NOT IN TOP 10.
So before the end of WW II and before the establishment of Israel, the USA and England knew where all the worlds major oil reserves were.
So after the war where could the USA and England establish a foot hold in the middle east to get to all that oil and under what pretext ? They would need access to the sea,also.
Check your map and tell us where do you think ?
[edit on 26-3-2010 by OLD HIPPY DUDE]