Re: Besides their Oil, Why is the US so bent on destroying Iraq?

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From: Roger Strong
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 00:48

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"Mike Pfaiffer" <mike@digitalcivilization.ca> wrote

> CNN reported some of the local tribes were also using the US
> bombing to settle old disputes.

Yup.  The Americans had to learn how things were done in Afganistan to avoid
this sort of thing, but overall they did a decent job.

Before they invaded, people kept mentioning how the British were forced out
of Afganistan.  What they don't mention is that the British learned how to
play the game - They learned that when one tribe pissed them off, instead of
going in themselves, they could pay off another tribe to wipe them out
instead.

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