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Island of course WMD cause instability....but thats the point the region needs to be stabilized for the above stated reasons. Mostly I see you guys looking at the trees and not the forest.

Oh Auerl what a Socialist you are....exploitation of the masses and all that rot.....and there is more oil out there than can be imagined... Nippon has just given 10 billion $ in loan guarntees for oil exploration in Thailand and Singapore, or the natural gas pipeline from central Asia. Or off the coast of Africa.......

The US imports realitivily little from the Middle East, we get our oil from Venizula.

The thing that you guys also don't get is that fundalmentalist Islam doesn't seperate church from state like the West does....and their idea of government is a return to the 14th century.....and pray tell how the global economy will run under those conditions. So we might as well all got back to our mud huts...

I see those who are oposed to the US actions (in the Middle East it's more a case of damed if you do and damed if you don't) as cutting off their own noses to spite their face..... A course of action had to be taken to stabilize the region....now the French and Germans were selling arms to Ireck in spite of UN Resolutions...that really is a case of them providing Sodamn the gun and ammunition to hold to their own heads..as Europe gets more Ireck oil than the US...

Someone made this clear to me in a phone conversation last night....THIS IS WORLD WAR THREE....