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The Iraq War article

CRACKPIE
24-10-2004, 17:52
I recently received this article from a paranoid friend of mine. I know her logic is faulty, I just dont know where. help, please.

I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but I believe that the Iraq war is the result of assertiveness by a few key people and a most unfortunate (or fortunate, depending on who you are) event inflicted upon the United States. Information that is public and widely known was used by my colleagues and myself to arrive at a very possible (and frightening) conclusion, which I will explain below.
Its is commonly known that most of the hijackers responsible for the terrorist attacks that took place on the day of September 11 2001 were born and raised in Saudi Arabia, currently the world’s largest distributor of fossil fuels. The Saudi Royal family is the wealthiest group of people alive. They wield the economic force of a small, military-capable first world country. A large portion of those assets (over a trillion dollars worth) is invested in companies within the United States. Everything from food production to toy manufacturing, the Saudis get a major chunk of it all. Another trillion lies in the vaults of American banks, a trillion that many banking corporations rely on heavily. If the Saudis were to retrieve this money within a 24-hour period, it would send American economy into a tailspin the likes of which has never been seen anywhere, ever.
The Saudis also provide the vast majority of fossil fuels used in the world, America (all of it, south middle and north) rely very heavily upon them, especially the United States.
Which leads to the inevitable question: If someone holds the plug to your iron lung, do you strike them? Do you strike back at them? If the Saudis are so crucial to the United States, if they hold the power to cripple it, does that not give them the ability to crash a few planes and fear no counterattack?
Maybe, just maybe, we should look into the Saudi status as extremely radical in their Shiite beliefs of Islam. At how pissed they inevitably are at western military action in Muslim holy land. At the twisted sense of guilt they must feel in being responsible for the upkeep of the invading infidels. Guilt they had to relieve by throwing a few planes into a few buildings, knowing that offensive actions against them would never occur. So they contacted an old, angry Muhajadeen fighter in Afghanistan. A man whose health, both mental and physical, was deteriorating rapidly. A man who, coincidentally, was still listed in the CIA books as a U.S asset. Osama Bin Laden-Salem Bin Laden’s largest heir-was an old trading partner of the Saudis, one with a big chip on its shoulder about the military bases his ex-employers had placed in Muslim land
So, the Saudis aid in training Al-qaeda, Osama crashes the planes and the Americans get the shaft, as they struggle to blame someone with no Connection to the royals, at least that was the plan. But they never expected to have both Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz in a militarily significant position, aided by an American oil magnate who pretty much controlled the president. All of these people had an urge to Invade Iraq and get their hands on some of that sweet Texas tea, now that their plans for drilling in Alaska had been frozen solid by the environmentalists. After the attacks on Afghanistan, however, Osama was driven-by the Americans and by his kidneys- into the only place where he would be protected, the Saudi palace.
The Saudis had no choice but to welcome one of their largest trading partners, and, again, the United States gets it up the ass, right? Not really, not as long as there is a crazy despot with control over large deposits of oil and a remote possibility of possession of weapons of mass destruction. If this situation is added to greedy oil magnates heading the government and professional warmongers itching to bomb Saddam, you get the current Iraq war. Because dethroning Hussein would just not be enough, Cheney needed a government that was extremely America-friendly, so much that Halliburton could just waltz in and literally take control of the country. Not hard with their main man Richard having his hand halfway into the presidents rectum.
So, if my logic is not faulty, I can arrive to this conclusion: the Iraq war is not only Bush’s fault, it is everyone’s fault. It’s the Democrats for not allowing the drilling in Alaska, its Bush and his family for allowing the Saudis to take their oil companies from their hands. It’s the liberal’s fault 20 years ago for stopping the progress of nuclear energy, and the Republican’s fault long, long ago for putting Saddam and The Saudi Royals in power. Its Chavez’ and the Venezuelans’ fault for limiting oils trade with the United States (stupidly, since it offers the largest profit margin) and It’s Congress’ fault for not humoring Chavez and just buying his oil. It’s the Texans’ for exporting their oil when the United States needed it more than anyone, and it’s somehow Strom Thurmond’s fault, I just don’t know why. Yet.
CRACKPIE
24-10-2004, 20:44
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CRACKPIE
24-10-2004, 23:37
nobody wants to read it??
Ashmoria
24-10-2004, 23:49
well i read it darlin' but i didnt really undestand it.

so the saudis got pissy one day and like a child in a tantrum, they decided to fly planes into the wtc then realized what they did and went OOPS we better grab that binladen kid and hide him here at the palace?

and because our govt is run by texas oilmen they gave the saudis a pass, knowing that it was, in the end, a good thing for them because they could twist it into a reason to invade iraq and steal THEIR oil?

and in the end its eveyones fault except those who thought it up, paid for it, and executed it?

i must be spacy today, it didnt make much sense. maybe you could sum it up for me.
THE LOST PLANET
25-10-2004, 00:25
Well it's not very well written, kind of rambling and incoherent in places, but there is something to the assertations. The Saudi connection is very real, not just to the events of 9/11, but to the Bushes, western energy companies, and American economic issues. Saudi Arabian money accounts for somewhere between 5-10% of US buisiness assets. Thats a lot of clout, it can make things happen and hide a lot of bodies. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there's nothing to fear.