| Why should people in a defeated autocracy have fair and equitable distribution of a natural resource when we in the United States don't?
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Posted on 05/10/2003 5:29:55 PM PDT by Ranger
How many times during the war did we get reports of soldiers coming across stockpiles of suspicious chemicals that initially tested "positive?" These chemicals were said to be undergoing additional tests...and we never heard the results.
I think things are being kept under wraps until all the chemicals are accounted for.
Your response was:
We aren't a defeated autocracy.
Why should people in a defeated autocracy have fair and equitable distribution of a natural resource when we in the United States don't?
Yeah, well I'm not one of them. I say we need to find the stuff. Not to justify anything, but to make damned sure some Iraqi colonel doesn't dig it up five years from now when we're long gone, and make himself a quick million bucks by selling it to the Atta boys.
Somebody in that country knows where a lot of it is, and that same somebody knows it's worth a lot of money to some people. We didn't fight a whole war to let that happen.
You: We are not socialist/communist.
Can you tell me why our policy for Iraq is so different from domestic policy? The joke is fair and equitable distribution of the oil in Iraq, nothing about our economic system is fair and equitable.
I hear no protestations from Rumsfeld, Bush, Powell, or others from the inner circle. The silence is deafening. Do these gentlemen not care of their reputation? Do they not care of the credibility of the US in foreign relations? Evidently not.
| Why should people in a defeated autocracy have fair and equitable distribution of a natural resource when we in the United States don't?
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You: We don't do utopian leftism here. We don't even debate it. The world is full of utopian leftism; this is a haven from it. If that is what you wish to do, I'm sure we can arrange to have our helpful and friendly Viking Kitties point you in the right direction. This is not that direction.
No debate, the definition of a Free Republic. Why does the oil of Iraq belong to the people when the oil of the United States does not?
| Why does the oil of Iraq belong to the people when the oil of the United States does not?
I do know that there are serious think-tankers working on this. For you or me to design this here on an Internet forum is nuttery; it's way too complicated a problem for that. But there are private enterprise guys on the case, and they are working with the Administration to come with something. It may be that the assumed socialism is simply the media reporting the only thing that makes sense to them, given that they know nothing. I hope that is the case. These kinds of reallocations to "the people" have happened here as well, and under much the same circumstances, i.e. after wars, revolutions, land rushes, etc. Somewhere in Oklahoma there is oil baron whose ancestors were on the border in their covered wagon the day the Oklohoma Territory opened up. At that point Oklahoma belonged to "the people," and so did the oil, even though nobody even thought about oil back then. One guy's ancestor settled in a place that turned out to have oil under it. Lucky him. |
none have been found the us govt now says 'we may never find the wmd'
Care to take a drink out of the Tigris or Euphrates River???
"Eliminate the paranoid & emotional response."
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We don't do utopian leftism here. We don't even debate it. The world is full of utopian leftism; this is a haven from it. If that is what you wish to do, I'm sure we can arrange to have our helpful and friendly Viking Kitties point you in the right direction. This is not that direction.