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Originally posted by whomod:
Man, you two don't get it, do you?

It's not about suppporting dictators or appeasing the enemy or anything. It's about the perception of the common Arab in the street and the safety of our troops!

You think siphoning Iraqi oil to Isreal is going to sit well in the Arab street, dictatorial, theocratic or otherwise??

Don't you think that by giving their oil to Isreal, the average Arab is going to be further inclined to listen to radicals like Osama Bin Laden and wage jihad against us over there???

Hey, we've just radicalized thousands more moderate Arabs, I guess we'll be needing more troop divisions now.

Again, i think you just don't give a fuck. 100, 200 body bags, who cares. All that matters is the neocon agenda suceed no matter the price in american (or Arab) lives. Kill em all and let God sort em out, eh?

It's just bad judgment.

I just can't stop thinking about the United Fruit Company for some reason....

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funny.

http://www.ucomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2003/09/20/
First of all, it sounds like a proposal to send oil to Israel for refining, NOT an ironclad plan, if it's not just an unsubstantiated rumor.

Second, if we do any trade with Israel at all it seems to be resented and used as a rationalization for hatred,
If there's to be an independent Palestinian state, then doesn't logic suggest Arab trade between Israel and its neighbors, INCLUDING Iraq ?

Meanwhile, no matter what the U.S. or Israel does, it can be spun with conspiracy theories that rationalize Muslim violence.
If we send them food and medicine, they'll say it's laced with mind-control drugs to conquer them.

Related to the Turkey link I posted above, two bombings of mosques in Turkey over the weekend, which exploded almost simultaneously, are believed to be the work of Al Qaida.

Interesting in many Muslim bombings, how many Muslims are killed in the Jihad for Islam. Muslim terror groups not only kill the "infidels" (i.e., any non-Muslims), they kill and intimidate any Muslims who would cooperate with Americans or Jews. And many innocent Muslim bystanders as well.

A man I know from Bangladesh (a Muslim) told me there were dozens of Bangladeshi/Muslim workers in the World Trade Center on 9/11 who died.

There were also many Muslims killed in the Al Qaida bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.
An Al Qaida terrorist who turned witness for the United States, interviewed on 60 Minutes said this indiscriminate killing of Muslims by Al Qaida (the 1998 bombing in particular, which he helped plan, and then saw firsthand the outcome)is what made him leave the organization.

I hasten to add, Whomod, you're once again rationalizing the violence of the enemy.