Iraq War Alternatives

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This thread is for people who have realistic alternatives to the war in Iraq. My idea is to increase intelligence spending so that the truly evil people are the only people who will be affected and mistakes such as bombing the wedding party or the funeral procession won't happen. Secondly, we could pull another Cold War victory by "westernizing" Iraq with our technology and allowing the oppressed people to see the better system we employ so they will rise up and their current political powers will lose their power.

""If I am wrong, Thy Grace impart to find that better Way.""

As a world leader we need to clean out corruption in our own government, this means task forces of chosen and watched citizens pouring over classified information, especially in all financial aspects.

It's world policy makers that make war as opposed to civilians who are increasingly being watched while government decreases access to OUR PUBLIC office.

There is a pre-emptive war of aggression over the worlds resources going on, alternatives are a bit late.

Without an internal overhaul with preparations for and the occurance of our own and even the world's realization of the truth and horrors behind western intentions, even attempting alternatives would be no more than what we already have.

A government telling us one thing but doing another. Untill people aren't as ignorant it will remain, because even when the truth comes out about anything, its to easy for it to be ignored and replaced by the sounds of a trusted voice repeating a trusted message.

So again, my alternative is to find and expose the truth globally, then attempt alternative actions, otherwise we just wouldn't know what's broken or how to fix it.

"The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge is Not Ignorance, It is the ILLUSION of Knowledge. Stephen Hawking"

The United States has already passed the point of no return in regards to Iraq. They must now pursue and complete the job in order to keep the peace. I think the only way this will resolve is in time. In a certain amount of time and when things start looking better, people will realize what the fighting was all about. We can now only think of things that will help speed up the process and end the conflict faster.

"I love to see people struggling for their purpose in life..."

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In a certain amount of time and when things start looking better, people will realize what the fighting was all about.

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"The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge is Not Ignorance, It is the ILLUSION of Knowledge. Stephen Hawking"

Every country that is forcibly revolutionised will evenutally regress back to the 'good ol' days'.

I say we should have left Iraq alone, and instead made an effort to kill their one source of power, oil.

If the states had spent as much money on refitting their vehicles to run on hydrogen extracted from water as they have on this fruitless campaign, oil would lose so much value that the entire middle eastern block would have fallen into resession, except for those who were friendly towards the west.

The people in those countries would then see their political leaders as the cause of their suffering, instead of the trusty 'force against the infidels' they are seen as today.

But then again... we could have just nuked them all!

"Always give to the left, coz the right way is the wrong way."

Good point leftwood. The corruption and lies like you said would need to be exposed. How are things anyway?

xanadoool it doesn't make sense to make the middle east poorer when poverty was a major problem to begin with. But, it's certainitely a more clever approach than bush's.

"I love to see people struggling for their purpose in life..."

The middle east, poor? No. It's just that most of the money is in the hands of the few, just like everywhere else in the world, just more so. Look at Saudi Arabia, richest country in the middle east, and yet has the highest rate of poverty too.

If the rich lose their ability to create wealth through oil, they have to start spending their money on new endevours, and this means making some of the poor a little better off by creating new jobs, which in turn makes their friends and family a little better off, but as soon as that happens, they'll want more things. They'll start asking for more pay, better working conditions, then the rich have to choose one of two options, pay up, thus creating more uncontroled wealth, or hire new poor people, which only delays the inevitable.

"Always give to the left, coz the right way is the wrong way."

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They'll start asking for more pay, better working conditions, then the rich have to choose one of two options, pay up, thus creating more uncontroled wealth

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"I love to see people struggling for their purpose in life..."

They don't give it away, but oil production has one of the best profit to employee ratios in the world.

By starting new businesses, more people will gain better incomes simply through the need for more employees.

The comment about the two choices is stating that if they do not improve the pay and conditions for these people, they will have no choice but to hire others when the people who want more leave for bigger better things.

More employees + higher employee turn over = more uncontroled wealth being distributed.

"Always give to the left, coz the right way is the wrong way."

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They don't give it away, but oil production has one of the best profit to employee ratios in the world.

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when the people who want more leave for bigger better things

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"I love to see people struggling for their purpose in life..."

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"westernizing" Iraq with our technology and allowing the oppressed people to see the better system we employ so they will rise up and their current political powers will lose their power.

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"A fool says I know and a wise man says I wonder."

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"westernizing" Iraq with our technology and allowing the oppressed people to see the better system we employ so they will rise up and their current political powers will lose their power.

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"The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge is Not Ignorance, It is the ILLUSION of Knowledge. Stephen Hawking"