Response to "Individualisti Liberalism?"

Submitted by Rich Leonardi (United States), Jan 14, 2003 at 18:09

Ms. Cansime's tired assertion that action in Iraq is about oil is almost worth ignoring--almost. If oil is what the U.S. wanted, we would be massing troops along our border with Canada, sending the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt toward Western Africa, and getting ready to dispatch marines to Venezuela.

Please, Ms. Cansime et al., end the nonsense about "war for oil." Your ilk said the same thing in '90 and '91 and the U.S. seized not a single oil field despite the presence of 500,000 troops in the Middle East.

And the argument against targeting Iraq because the world is full of other dangerous regimes can just as easily be used to expand our war efforts, not forfeit them.

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