Nicely put, Mark!

Submitted by Sword of Islam (United Kingdom), Mar 29, 2006 at 18:58

And even if the US were mandated for a military intervention you can bet your bottom dollar that those who currently brush it off and say "well, if you care so much why not do something about it?" would inevitably end up saying that such an intervention was a pretext for control of the oil capacity that you refer to!

Ironic, given that this particular civil war has cost millions of lives as opposed to tens of thousands.................................

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