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RedditIn May 2001, the White House issued a National Energy Policy report, known as the Cheney Report: the state of our national oil reserves. In 2000, half the oil we consumed was imported. By 2020, two-thirds will have to be imported. Where will it come from? Then, coincidentally, if not conspiratorially, 9/11 happened. Might there not be a link between Osama bin Laden and Saddam? Iraqi oil reserves are vast, and... Worth a try? Worth a war? We'll see.
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Then Osama began to fade off our radar screens. Saddam is fading in. Since Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11 and Osama is his enemy, why the replacement? Saddam has disobeyed us over sanctions, disobeyed the United Nations, too, an organization our politicians like to demonize. Now "evidence" is mounting. Saddam is acquiring weaponsofmassdestruction (one word) like Israel, like the United States. He must be stopped now before he has nuclear weapons, which he might then one day be tempted to use against us. Therefore, to prevent what might (or might not) one day happen, he must be stopped with all our military might. Standing tall, we'll do it alone if the UN is too craven to ride with us into the valley of death. Of course, should we, as Bush proposes, attack him first, we shall certainly provoke him to do what we, allegedly, most fear--hit us with chemical and biological weapons. We are now operating on a high metaphysical plane. Religious, even. Good. Evil. Us. Them. Faith. Death.
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