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  • What really scares me about USUK aggression

    First off I'd like to say that this thread is for those that will not waste all our time by discussing the irrelevant propaganda-issues put out by USUK leadership regarding weapons of mass destruction or the evilness of Saddam or 45-minutes or World security or any of the other chewing-gum-topics divulged for the benifit of the voting public.

    The US and UK invaded Iraq to gain control of the oil supplies of the second biggest oil producer after Saudi Arabia, they did this because industrial society runs on oil, it's as simple as that.

    What I want to discuss is what you think we should be more afraid of:

    The lies, cynicism, brutality, and willingness to bend/twist/manipulate/manufacture and forget the truth and history, as practised by the US and UK leadership- so that they could invade an entire country, destroy it's infastructure, and render all the protests from within their 'democracies' irrelevant, and causing all the 'serious debate' in the West to confine itself to made-up issues that have nothing to do with their [USUK leaderships] real motivations, while the soldiers and oil-men plod on with doing what they're really there to do (occupying the land and contracting-up the spoils of war)

    or

    That the Leadership of the US and UK think that it is necessary to do these things, because they beleive that controlling the Oil is worth it... because when the oil supply to the West runs out, Industrial society will end, and it would run out/be prone to impossible levels of manipulation sooner, had they not invaded Iraq.
    In decades agriculture and translocation will buckle under the price of energy, people will starve, people will freeze, economies will crash. Without energy, or with overly expensive energy, even America could become like a 3rd world country, and California-class energy failures will become more widespread. Perhaps the men who run the US and UK, were actually taking very sobre steps to prevent the end of the world as we know it... perhaps the real reason they went to war- to secure the vast energy reserves we depend on to run the 'modern world', is justified?

    Discuss...

    Personaly I don't think it is justified, the modern world could find or build the infrastructure to derive alternative energy sources, but as things currently stand, energy is refined/transported and processed by a select few, an 'Energy Elite'.

    The oil-moguls and their cousins in the military/industrial/corporate conglomorate aren't interested in finding alternate sources of 'sustainable energy' as this would take the power from their hands, and lead to the 'democratization of energy'. Imagine everybody having their own rooftop solar-plant or bio-waste methane plant! The horror! Therefore their lobbies will continue to support the worlds dependance on non-sustainable high-yield oil-energy because it keeps them rich and powerful, even though it is finite, and running out.

    And because the oil is running out we will see more energy wars launched by the US (a very energy-hungry beast) disguised as humanitarianism or anti-terrorizm or WMD-control in the future.

    The whole thing is merely an extension of the Kissinger plan first floated in the mid-seventies concerned with 'seizing Arab oil supplies', thereby placing the US in a position to 'control the worlds economies' (China, Europe, Russia and the rest).
    Last edited by problem_child; October 3, 2003, 08:36.
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    First off I'd like to say that this thread is for those that will not waste all our time by discussing the irrelevant propaganda-issues
    You're right; it's about spewing out the same mindless garbage over and over again.

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    • #3
      You're Polish... so what's your angle in detracting from the discussion?
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      • #4
        The US and UK invaded Iraq to gain control of the oil supplies of the second biggest oil producer after Saudi Arabia, they did this because industrial society runs on oil, it's as simple as that.
        No offence, but its only Guardian reading students, and the loony left and greens in general who think that it 'all about oil'.

        The US Gets most of its oil from OTHER PLACES, ie, Russia, LAtin America and so on, they get a rather tiny fraction from the middle east.

        Also note, there is more going on then just oil. Not everything is about oil!
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        • #5
          Originally posted by problem_child
          You're Polish... so what's your angle in detracting from the discussion?
          No, I'm Texan.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by The Andy-Man The US Gets most of its oil from OTHER PLACES, ie, Russia, LAtin America and so on, they get a rather tiny fraction from the middle east.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by The Andy-Man


              No offence, but its only Guardian reading students, and the loony left and greens in general who think that it 'all about oil'.

              The US Gets most of its oil from OTHER PLACES, ie, Russia, LAtin America and so on, they get a rather tiny fraction from the middle east.

              Also note, there is more going on then just oil. Not everything is about oil!
              Iraqi oil costs 1$ a barrel to process, Russian oil costs 6$ a barrel to process. The US get's only a tiny fraction of its oil from the Middle East... the worlds biggest oil region... and you don't think they are interested in changing this state of affairs?


              Beleive me, oil is the most important resource in the modern world, and it is naive to think it's not worth going to war for, my opinion is that maybe it is worth killing for... killing thousands of people for, and that's my question, what's more scary, the killer- or his desperation?
              Freedom Doesn't March.

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              • #8
                Does anyone really think that if OPEC get difficult and the oil price quadruples then 280 million Americans (or however many it is now) or 60 million Brits are just going to say "That's OK, we'll pay the extra and we don't mind having the power turned off 8 hours a day".

                Governments are elected to keep the lights on, the traffic moving and all that. Not doing those things loses elections. Invading other countries doesn't if you can find a good enough excuse.

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                • #9
                  Actually if you don't like it you can vote for a different government, it's the whole point of democracy.
                  Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
                  Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
                  We've got both kinds

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                  • #10
                    Whats all the fuss about oil anyway? the windfarms will take up any slack in lost oil production, maybe we should invade a windy country next?

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                    • #11
                      Cerberus, that's not what the likes of Tony Blah have been saying, they say it's because of WoMaDs and humanitarianism and such like, I am disturbed by a government that can lie with such an earnest expression... George W Bush looks like an honest upstanding individual where at least you know what you're getting compared to the diabolical slimeyness of Tony Blair.

                      MikeH, after this I've lost my faith in democracy. I don't beleive dictatorships or Communism is the way to go now... but 'democracy' seems to be just a way of handling the masses of tax-payers so that they don't interfere with the objectives of those that rule. If politicians are the herdsman, then who is the landowner?
                      Freedom Doesn't March.

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                      • #12
                        The problem with democracy is that people don't care about what happens as long as they can buy a nice TV and eat ok.
                        Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
                        Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
                        We've got both kinds

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by MikeH
                          The problem with democracy is that people don't care about what happens as long as they can buy a nice TV and eat ok.
                          True, I know its small minded but mortgage interest rates are of more concern to me than whether we find WMD in Iraq

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                          • #14
                            No, I disagree. In some parts of the world people take democracy very seriously indeed. The same parts of the world that people get 'disapeared' and where the press is tightly controlled and where the CIA run around in the shadows handing out money and guns etc.

                            In the West, a 'Crisis of Democracy' is when people actually start paying attention to things and protesting and so on. If people accepted that GW2 was about Oil, then the least of US governments problem would be looking as predatory as it is... people might start thinking :

                            'Well if oil is that important to the survival of our society, and the manner to which we are accustomed... then maybe we should find alternatives to being so dependant on it'

                            I think the 'landowners' that run the energy industry for instance, and other military/industrial influencers wouldn't like that at all. The real reason we were lied to about the invasion of Iraq, and the invasions to come, isn't because it makes our governments look bad, but because it would make us realise how unsustainable the current world order is.
                            Freedom Doesn't March.

                            -I.

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                            • #15
                              First off I'd like to say that this thread is for those that will not waste all our time by discussing the irrelevant propaganda-issues put out by USUK leadership regarding weapons of mass destruction or the evilness of Saddam
                              Good plan. If you ignore the main points of your opponent then you will be freer to endless drone on about it being "all about the oil". We wouldn't want you to bother actually responding or refuting the other side's arguments. It’s much better to just keep repeating the same tired old claim which has been proven to be false.
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