BOB KLAHN -> DAN CEPPA wrote:


 BK>  Well, it was a nusiance. They had to keep coming up with
 BK>  alternative explanations.

 BK>  First he had WMDs.
 BK>  Then he had WMD programs.
 BK>  Then he had WMD program related activities.
 BK>  Then he *WANTED* WMDs.

 BK>  Then he was a brutal dictator.
 BK>  There were the rape rooms, so they turned Iraq into a rape
 BK>  nation.

 BK>  The good news is, they used all the experience to drive the rush
 BK>  to war in Iran. When the Iranian Nuclear weapons program was
 BK>  revealed to have ended in 2003, they were expereinced enough to
 BK>  switch gears immediately to they could restart the program and
 BK>  transfer the knowledge.

 BK>  No matter what, Iran is a threat, and will remain a threat as
 BK>  long as Big Oil doesn't control their oil fields, and as long as
 BK>  the Neo-Cons don't control their economy.

 BK>  Disaster Capitalism in spades.

 BK>  The one problem they haven't yet confronted... now that we are
 BK>  going to attack Iran for just the possibility they might someday
 BK>  have a Nuke program, bombers won't do it.

 BK>  Bombing could have forced them to open up their secret nuke
 BK>  program. However, now that we know the secret nuke program was
 BK>  already stopped, we have to force them to give up any program
 BK>  that might lead to a nuke program some day. I doubt we can bomb
 BK>  them enough to accomplish that. So we have to invade. Only we
 BK>  don't have enough troops to invade.

 BK>  The only way bombing would work is if we bombed enough to
 BK>  destroy the country. In which case the flow of oil would stop
 BK>  and the price of oil would go through the roof... oh my...

 BK>  They WANT high oil prices... damn! I may have stumbled on their
 BK>  secret plan... They ain't as stupid as you thought they were.
 BK>  Venal and evil and criminal, but Darth Cheney is ... I'm not
 BK>  sure what he is. Inhuman, true... but...

With stuff this good you should join the writers union.
They need good fiction writers.

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