so which country is america gonna invade next

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what more do I need to know?

look up the word cliche, your 'cultures are far apart' statment as a means to venerate our own selfish destruction in the pursuit of economic greed might wash at the local BNP meeting, but not to anyone with an ounce of intelligence.

poor little iraqis, we'll bomb them out of existence, hand over all the rebuilding contracts to anglo-american comapnies, rape them of their natural resources, emplace a puppet government, destroy their towns and cities at will, but its ok, they won't understand, its a 'cultural thing'...

read all of robs and especially andys posts above.

if you can

Retard-Lee versus got-a-brain-cell-scruf as far as I can tell.

come back and say that when you've completed at least one round of higher education

Pwn3d by graduate banter...

It was a complement...:angel2:

Right, forget the WMD for the moment.

Iraq is an undemocratic regime, which the people don't like. It is, I think it's fair to say, a threat to stability in the middle east.

Playing devils advocate, why shouldn't we invade, based on the arguments put forward for the Iraq war?

my brothers age old argumental parting shot put down...

he's got a PhD in geophysics tho

did you mean Iran there??

No it's not, he was elected last year, it's not a perfect democracy by a long way, but it was by popular vote. der

Sorry fella

Just woke up, didn't have my contact lenses in, and hadn't bothered to read anything beyond this thread.

Statement retracted

The point was, there are similarities in the situations, and I wondered what the political justification for not invading iran (beyond public support) would be, given their continued support for the Iraq invasion.

Thats it though, aside of his derranged power mongering which came about through his determintion to prevent fractional military coups (an understandable fear imo judging by current conditions), Hussein modernised Iraq, administered the first state welfare and development programs, launched illiteracy eradication programs, the first free compulsory education system in the arab world, free healthcare, urbanised and industrialised a former rural peasant economy, the list is goes on...

Most of all, the former Iraqi administration built a secular society, high ranking members of the Ba'ath party are Christian.. establishing a secular society to me is of great challenges that countries like Iran and Iraq face..

Americas big axe grind with the Iraq comes from the fact that they successfully managed to expropriate our oil companies a long time ago, they hated the fact that someone else held the cards, anti-semitism and human rights abuses where of little concern to the US, theres far worse going on in countries the world over whose governments would be far easier to depose than Sadam, they just didn't happen to sit on a vast oil field oilfield, occupation of which would not only appease the less than savoury Saudi administration, place the mining, gas and oil operations in US control, but also leave them slap bang next to the second largest proven natural gas and oil reserves in the world, Iran.

Im not arguing Sadam wasn't evil, but much of the hatred comes from the Shi'a who oppose secularism and the Kurds who despise the arabs, its a power struggle, one which we started by seeding power to the Sunni's.

evidently the education system as a whole has a lot to answer for..

Well I can't stand the American hypocrisy in this situation.

Who will they invade next?? Who knows...whoever has the most oil!

Anybody watching 24...wouldn't suprise me if what Cummings did doesn't go on in real life...it's all about oil.

Pipe down and try to see the irony in what I said to Andy.. the medical student..

deffo, bush is gonna pick fights with them for petty reasons i rekon, America use something daft like 80% of the worlds supply

you have no idea do you, i dont want us to have owt to do with iraq. the only think i wanted was saddam dead. i didnt want any of us over their. ive got mates in every branch of the armed forces, i never wanted any of them to go over for someone elses war. you need a good fucing slap you pet.


and the crack where i said all arabs are cunts, if you continued to read the thread you would find the post wher i said i was jesting.


and again higher education these days means fuck all, unlkess that subject is do do with politics or culture.

having an hons degree in multimedia computing or IT for business or structural engineering isnt gonna make you a political genious is it.

your crack really is shit, you mustnt be this much of a cock in person or id find it hard for you to have any friends at all, or ones that werent equally as cockish as you.

I have leared that if you ignore him he goes away

it was a windup, and it worked, it got your nickers in a twist


your far too pc rob

ive jsut learned a bit of banter about scruf, lmfao fucken wierdo