{"article":{"id":42115,"heading":"29 Reasons to attack Iraq","author":"Ellie R","created":"2003-03-28 12:41:30","modified":"2013-11-10 23:49:24","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 06:49:24","article":"<p>29 Reasons to attack Iraq <br><br> 1. Push up the price of oil. <br>  <br> 2. Create defense industry jobs. <br>  <br> 3. Divert attention from economic problems at home. <br>  <br> 4. Divert attention from environmental issues. <br>  <br> 5. Good excuse to cut spending on social services to pay for the war. <br>  <br> 6. Good excuse to further limit civil rights. <br>  <br> 7. Good excuse to drill in the ANWR. <br>  <br> 8. Start drilling in national forests and national parks. <br>  <br> 9. To get people investing during a time of national panic, reduce the capital gains tax. <br>  <br> 10. To continue to keep Reagan and Bush administration papers secret that will implicate daddy Bush in Iran-Contra schemes. <br>  <br> 11. Halliburton sold more to Iraq during the 1990&rsquo;s than any other company in the world. Now let&rsquo;s bomb it and let Halliburton sell it to them again. <br>  <br> 12. Give Pakistan justification to use nukes on India. <br>  <br> 13. Give India justification to retaliate. <br>  <br> 14. Give the Palestinians justification to attack Israel <br>  <br> 15. Give Israel justification to retaliate. <br>  <br> 16. Give Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and Iran reason to retaliate for Israel retaliating. <br>  <br> 17. Speed up Bush&rsquo;s vision of Armageddon. <br>  <br> 18. So Bush can build a new vacation home outside Baghdad. <br>  <br> 19. Because we cannot tolerate leaders in office who did not receive a clear majority of votes. <br>  <br> 20. Keep Cheney in the bunker. <br>  <br> 21. We can't find bin Laden. Maybe we can get Saddam. <br>  <br> 22. Divert attention from Bush&rsquo;s friend Kenny Boy and Enron. <br>  <br> 23. Divert attention from Halliburton&rsquo;s accounting violations. <br>  <br> 24. Divert attention from Bush&rsquo;s illegal Harken insider trading. <br>  <br> 25. Divert attention from Bush&rsquo;s own AWOL military record. <br>  <br> 26. Divert attention from Bush&rsquo;s &ldquo;family values&rdquo; drunken daughter, drug addicted niece, Silverado scandal brother, smuggler sister-in-law. <br>  <br> 27. Justify \"Star Wars\" or the \"Defense Shield\" or whatever they're calling it lately, by destabilizing world politics. <br>  <br> 28. To stay in power. <br>  <br> 29. So when Iraq is gone, we won't have to distinguish between Iran and Iraq <br><br>  <br>  <br> 1. Push up the price of oil. <br>  <br> 2. Create defense industry jobs. <br>  <br> 3. Divert attention from economic problems at home. <br>  <br> 4. Divert attention from environmental issues. <br>  <br> 5. Good excuse to cut spending on social services to pay for the war. <br>  <br> 6. Good excuse to further limit civil rights. <br>  <br> 7. Good excuse to drill in the ANWR. <br>  <br> 8. Start drilling in national forests and national parks. <br>  <br> 9. To get people investing during a time of national panic, reduce the capital gains tax. <br>  <br> 10. To continue to keep Reagan and Bush administration papers secret that will implicate daddy Bush in Iran-Contra schemes. <br>  <br> 11. Halliburton sold more to Iraq during the 1990&rsquo;s than any other company in the world. Now let&rsquo;s bomb it and let Halliburton sell it to them again. <br>  <br> 12. Give Pakistan justification to use nukes on India. <br>  <br> 13. Give India justification to retaliate. <br>  <br> 14. Give the Palestinians justification to attack Israel <br>  <br> 15. Give Israel justification to retaliate. <br>  <br> 16. Give Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and Iran reason to retaliate for Israel retaliating. <br>  <br> 17. Speed up Bush&rsquo;s vision of Armageddon. <br>  <br> 18. So Bush can build a new vacation home outside Baghdad. <br>  <br> 19. Because we cannot tolerate leaders in office who did not receive a clear majority of votes. <br>  <br> 20. Keep Cheney in the bunker. <br>  <br> 21. We can't find bin Laden. Maybe we can get Saddam. <br>  <br> 22. Divert attention from Bush&rsquo;s friend Kenny Boy and Enron. <br>  <br> 23. Divert attention from Halliburton&rsquo;s accounting violations. <br>  <br> 24. Divert attention from Bush&rsquo;s illegal Harken insider trading. <br>  <br> 25. Divert attention from Bush&rsquo;s own AWOL military record. <br>  <br> 26. Divert attention from Bush&rsquo;s &ldquo;family values&rdquo; drunken daughter, drug addicted niece, Silverado scandal brother, smuggler sister-in-law. <br>  <br> 27. Justify \"Star Wars\" or the \"Defense Shield\" or whatever they're calling it lately, by destabilizing world politics. <br>  <br> 28. To stay in power. <br>  <br> 29. So when Iraq is gone, we won't have to distinguish between Iran and Iraq <br>  <br> <\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"There has to be more....please add to the list","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/03\/42115.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}