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That is an excellent quote. It is also why the people of the US are extremely wary of conscription.

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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
-- Aldous Huxley - English novelist and critic, 1894-1963

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"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
George Washington

America has been involved in many wars in its short life. From the American Civil War back to the Revolutionary War, all of America's conflicts were justified. It wasn't until around the turn of the century that America first started waging war for economic reasons.
Greed has been the cause of 4 of America's wars. The Spanish American War, The Philippine-US War, The Persian Gulf war, and the current mess in Iraq. Both the Spanish-American and Philippine-US wars were for land, and natural resources. The Iraq wars were/are for oil. All of these things are very good for an economy.
Money is what makes the world go round, or at least the U.S. Since around the turn of the last century wealth, and the wealthy have run my country.
Money influences many decisions in American politics, usually for the worse. Wealth is considered over all other things, including life sometimes. It is too bad, because this country was founded on good principles. Greed and the ruling class always come out on top though.

I would just like to add the majority of Americans are not in favor of the war. People shouldn't generalize and take out all of there anger on any American. Many of us feel the same way as other countries, we hate the war. We are just as angry as you.

"It's Big Brother man..."

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I strongly disagree neither Iraq war was or is because of greed for oil. The first was because of Sadams invasion of Kuwait, you can count the many reasons for this one now. You may not beleive in the weapons of mass destruction but look how the peoples of Iraq were being treated. Tortured and starved, the sanctions did not work because Sadam sold oil vouchers and used the money to build underground tunnels and to buy weaponry from China, N korea and apparently as we now know poisining perfume with sarin or risin, payed for by money he received from the the corrupt oil for food program.

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This statement has been made by many opposed to the actions taken in both Gulf wars, however, there is absolutely nothing of substance to back it up as fact. If the first Gulf war was over oil, why didn't we simply take the oil fields as our own? Claim them as the spoils of war? In fact, as already stated, the first Gulf war was because of the fact that a member of the UN had its borders invaded. All members of the UN have sworn to protect the other members. Plain and simple, we did what we had promised to do. Whether or not we should remain members of the UN is for another thread (I think one actually exists), but that doesn't change the reasons that war was fought.

As far as this Gulf war, regardless of whether or not you believe we ever had any credible reason to believe there were WMD, again, you have a hard time arguing that it was for oil. In this case, we have actually occupied the land, but again, we have not taken the oil fields as our own as spoils of war.

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"It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity."
-- Benjamin Tucker, Liberty, May 22, 1886

In the struggle of Good against Evil, it's always the people who get killed.
-- Eduardo Galeano

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"Don't be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretence of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they'll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces"
-- Jean-Paul Marat (May 24, 1743 - July 13, 1793), was a Swiss-born scientist and physician

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"Where is it written in the Constitution, in what article or section is it contained, that you may take children from their parents and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war in which the folly and wickedness of the government may engage itself?"
-- Daniel Webster, Speech in the House of Representatives, January 14, 1814