You know Brice, it is amazing how people have selective memory when
it comes to the status of the Iraq war.  Those who want GW out of
office say he started an unjust war.  However the truth is, it was a
continuation of Desert Storm.  Saddam broke the cease fire agreement
and the coalition of the willing is there finishing the job.  Regardless
of WMD, Saddam had broken many (almost all) of the cease fire agreement.
It is the French, Germans and Russians who just didn't have the stomach
to help finish the job.
However, now they are all ready to go back in and sell their goods and
services.  I hope the Iraqi's change their suppliers and avoid those who
would not help free their people.  They don't have to use the US, just
avoid those countries that wish they were still being oppressed/murdered
under Saddam's control.

Tim

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I don't think it was about any country not having the 'stomach' to
do the job, it was money.  People criticize the USA saying, 'It was
about oil.'  They look up to these other countries that opposed the
war, and don't want to look at the big money that these other countries
were making from building chemical weapons plants, etc.  The $10 billion
dollars that vanished while the UN was managing the 'Oil for palaces',
er, I mean, 'Bribes for Bureaucrats', dang it, I mean, 'Oil for Food'
program.  These people wanted Iraq to continue to be a threat, but a
threat just inside the bounds of 'potential threat'.  As long as this
brinkmanship game kept going, the money train kept pulling in regularly.

And yes, I think it would be fair for the countries who profited from
this situation ended up with empty pockets.

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