Nezdragon
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Little belated hi, but here it is!
I got involved in politics during the 2000 elections. 9/11 got me into it irrevocably. I was looking at some of the things being said, and it didn't make any sense. Many people seem to just look on the top of an issue and make a decision from there. I like to find causes, facts etc.
For example, people say the war in Iraq is just a bid for oil. When you look at some of the facts the left wants you to hear, and ignore the others, this makes sense.
But, I did the math. Iraq exported 1.5 million barrels of oil a day last year. Oil being about 65 dollars a barrel average (every time I write this the price changes), this comes to 97.5 million dollars in one day. Times this by 365 and we get $35,587,500,000 (35 billion dollars) for one year. Two years is $71 billion. We have spent $200 billion on the war thus far (over two years). Anyone else see an inconsistency with those numbers?
If we were to pull out now, it would take 3 years to gain a profit from the oil. This is taking all of the exports for 5 years. Also, we would be leaving Iraq in a very instable state, which would quickly collapse into civil war and anarchy.
I would be interested to hear comments on that one.
Also, Congress got the same WMD intel as Bush, and they still authorized the war. They agreed with it then. But now its a lie?
If you look hard enough, you can find a great deal of incongruities (to use a nice politically corrected-up term) in the left's arguments.
I am pro-life (excepting cases of serious physical, emotional, or mental harm to the mother), patriotic, support the troops wholeheartedly, pro 'under God', and I have an unique (I think...) position on the evolution/creationism issue, which should be under both religion and education soon...
I look forward to writing (more) on this forum!
I got involved in politics during the 2000 elections. 9/11 got me into it irrevocably. I was looking at some of the things being said, and it didn't make any sense. Many people seem to just look on the top of an issue and make a decision from there. I like to find causes, facts etc.
For example, people say the war in Iraq is just a bid for oil. When you look at some of the facts the left wants you to hear, and ignore the others, this makes sense.
But, I did the math. Iraq exported 1.5 million barrels of oil a day last year. Oil being about 65 dollars a barrel average (every time I write this the price changes), this comes to 97.5 million dollars in one day. Times this by 365 and we get $35,587,500,000 (35 billion dollars) for one year. Two years is $71 billion. We have spent $200 billion on the war thus far (over two years). Anyone else see an inconsistency with those numbers?
If we were to pull out now, it would take 3 years to gain a profit from the oil. This is taking all of the exports for 5 years. Also, we would be leaving Iraq in a very instable state, which would quickly collapse into civil war and anarchy.
I would be interested to hear comments on that one.
Also, Congress got the same WMD intel as Bush, and they still authorized the war. They agreed with it then. But now its a lie?
If you look hard enough, you can find a great deal of incongruities (to use a nice politically corrected-up term) in the left's arguments.
I am pro-life (excepting cases of serious physical, emotional, or mental harm to the mother), patriotic, support the troops wholeheartedly, pro 'under God', and I have an unique (I think...) position on the evolution/creationism issue, which should be under both religion and education soon...
I look forward to writing (more) on this forum!