It's not about the oil, not really ...

Again, an older post from the usenet. But the information it contains is nonetheless still valid. No explanation required. E-mail this to the whiney liberal who knows nothing but what Donald Graham (Washington Post) and Pinch Sulzberger (New York Times) and the other owners of the VLWM (Vast Left Wing Media) tell them. I've got nothing against liberal thinkers. [I do have something against those who try to cloud the minds of men and women for reasons of personal gain, be it power, pride or profit.]

Anyone with half a brain must know that some of Saddam Hussein's funds have been funnelled into a public relations warchest supporting his regime, then and now. A lot of cash has changed hands and many people got rich while the status quo of Saddam Hussein's regime never changed. Now that he's out of power, a lot of people obviously are being paid to continue the insurgence. Why is it we never see stories about the wholesale purchase of the western free press by Saddam's paid flacks?

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The primary problem with most liberals is they fail to understand business. It's not their fault. Most were raised to think: Business bad!! Social workers and bureaucrats good!! And, since business turns the wheels of progress, the liberals are forever failing to grasp the reasons certain things happen the way they do. So it's hardly surprising that they've got every uneducated third world idiot believing it's about oil. And it's not about oil, not really.

We don't want the Iraqi oil. We want the Iraqis to have Nikes not nukes. We want to sell them Fords. And Timken ball bearings. And Curad band-aids. And Trojan condoms. And Boeing jets.

Iraq has the second largest proven oil reserves in the world. To this point, all that wealth has been controlled and kept by one person, Saddam Hussein. He hasn't spent it, he's hoarded it. And hoarding is the great sin of capitalism. A dollar hoarded isn't spent and if it's not spent, nothing is produced to earn the exchange of that dollar.

Saddam Hussein could've spent it on schools. On hospitals. On roads. On libraries. He could have used it to develop industry, which would have bought machine tools from the U.S. He could've been the Iraqi's benevolent benfactor and earned that sainthood he wanted. But he didn't. He bought gold-plated AK-47s. (He had to buy them because Iraq didn't have the industry to make them.)

The U.S. and its coalition partners couldn't bomb Iraq back to the stone age because Iraq is already there. Only 45 per cent of the women aged 15 and older can read and write! If the oil is controlled again to benefit a few, and not used to educate Iraqis, grow their country and make them rich, then everything is back to square one.

The great sin is that the average income of the average Iraqi is $2,500. And the U.S. wants avg GDP to be at least 10 times that. We want the Iraqis to sell that oil and upgrade their lifestyle, their culture, their living standard and get with the future. Because we know for a fact that no educated sane person will blindly follow some psycho religious nut. Moreover, if the Iraqis upgrade their lifestyle, chances are they're going to be buying western goods, which makes the economies in the west hum like ... well, hum like well oiled machines.

Before saying it's about the oil, look at the statistics on this page:

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/iz.html

A country of 25 million people:

1.75 million tv sets
12,500 with access to the internet
4.85 million radios
675,000 telephones
4.4 million labor force

Unlike some poor backwater African nation, Iraq has resources to exploit. It doesn't have to be in the stone age. And an unexploited resource is an abomination to a capitalist.

Remember, entrepreneurs aren't infidels, they just believe in a different ecclesiastical text: Penny begat nickel, nickel begat dime, dime begat quarter, quarter begat dollar and dollars begat freedom.

So, I hope that helps explain it.