Oh, they still would have. If it wasn't under Bush, it would've been with someone else. It wasn't pointless, though. America knows quite a bit about war and how they're usually pretty expensive. They wouldn't have footed the bill for this thing if there wasn't a pot of gold waiting for them at the end of the rainbow. Or in this case, a pot of goo.
Numerous permanent bases are being constructed in Iraq right now in order to syphon off their incredibly rich oil supply for the next century or so. It's pretty sad how that was the real reason for going in there; but then again, I'll be pretty happy when gas prices recede. And that relief is what I'm meant to feel. The price of oil has been steadily climbing for some time now, and the media seems to have a legitimate explanation for every hike. If some tropical storm hits an isolated refinery somewhere and bends a few pipes, breaks a window or two and knocks over a few barrels, they're all over that story for a week so everybody knows about it, and suddenly gas prices across North America jump up ten or fifteen cents. I don't buy it. But when the oil starts flowing in the West's direction once again, the cost of the war will seem like pocket change; a few thousand casualties a regretable but manageable loss.
"Weapons of mass destruction." What a laugh.
"We've got to overthrow that tyrannical dictator, the big meanie! He's gassing his own people! *Collective Gasp* So...any thoughts on strategy? Hmm. How about we bomb Baghdad...a lot!"
"We've got to ensure that those poor people enjoy democracy...and Big Macs!"
"Sadam was linked to 9/11...okay, we're not sure, but that sounds plausible, right? Time to invade them!" It's pretty incredible that stuff worked. Like...all of that stuff.
Civil War. That ol' oxymoron. Just another buzz word, in my opinion. If you destroy a country, there's bound to be fighting within. "Insurgent" was another word that was used a lot on the news. The word was demonized in a "What are they doing?" kind of way. "We're liberating you!"
"Sarge! 'Guy running on that rooftop!
"Liberate him, soldier!"
"Yessir."
The word literally means to get up...to rise. It's funny, if you look at the heroes of the movie Red Dawn, you realize they're insurgents. Naturally. If someone invaded my country in a similar situation, you can bet I'd be defending it in that manner.