Reply #34: So there it is.

[50000feet]

Memos showing (err, evidencing, indicating, pick your word du jour) your country invaded Iraq with the sole purpose, which I'd guessed long ago (yawn), of stealing their oil.

Let's play this in slow motion, as it were: the US designed to invade Iraq as the latest country among so very many it has invaded to steal and plunder. In the Ayn-Rand-efficient process of doing so, your country, the US:

• created millions of homeless people---refugees who lost home, work, contacts, friendships, security, family, livelihood, neighbourhood, etc.;

• killed god knows how many people;

• poisoned the land and water, not to mention peoples' lungs and innards, with depleted uranium and god knows what else.

And guess what? You're all still benefiting from the Iraq Theft Slash Murder Slash Devastation. Anyone not driving a car these days? Thank god Jean Chretien was PM of Canada when the call to oil companies, err, other countries was put out.