Quite frankly, I don't really care who decides to take what I say seriously or not. I'm not out to cater to those people that are too stubborn to look outside something traditional. The way I see it, it's their loss if they decide to walk through life with film over reality.
First, I don't really think these are "childish assumptions", it's investigation at it's most basic level. Any journalist would do the exact same things, that's how you discover things, look into the backgrounds and connect the dots.
Second, Army engineers could have, should have, and wanted to do the job, but instead the Bush administration outsourced the jobs to private contractors, of which the VP had an active stake in. Cracker mentioned the Army didn't have enough engineers at the time, my question would then be, why didn't they have enough engineers? What did they do back in WW2, why couldn't they do the same thing with Iraq? It was not the only company capable of doing it.
Here's a few bits from the book War is a Racket that I think apply;
"For a very few this racket, like bootlegging and other underworld rackets, brings fancy profits, but the cost of operations is always transferred to the people - who do not profit."
"The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes even twelve per cent. But wartime profits - ah! that is another matter - twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent - the sky is the limit. All that the traffic will bear. Uncle Sam has the money, Let's get it."
"Napoleon once said,
"All men are enamored of decorations... they positively hunger for them." "- the government learned it could get soldiers for less money, because the boys like to be decorated."
(on how to defeat the racket)
"It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war."
Call it whatever you want. "Conspiracy Theory" - you throw the words around as if you don't understand what they mean. Or to even think a conspiracy could ever take place one must be crazy! All it is is an act of betrayal by the American politicians. I sit here sometimes amazed people like you, who have been around for twice as long as me, and actually lived through the racket of Vietnam and now Iraq can't see the business for what it actually is. It's never been about defending our democracy or our freedoms, wars are waged because they make profits. The links are there, right out in the open, and every time someone brings one up, he's a "Conspiracy theorist" because Fox News says they are. Anyone who questions the US government is a terrorist...
It seems like you just don't want to believe reality for what it actually is. People die every day because of the way our government runs, and it doesn't have to be like this, which is the saddest part of all. It could be completely different, except people like you are unwilling to change, even the slightest bit, to make another persons life worth living. You justify it by turning them into people who should just live the way we do and do what we do because you believe our way is right and nothing could be better. But when 1/2 the world survives on under $2.00 a day, while Americans are racking up credit card debt on things they don't need or will never use, the system cannot be deemed a success. More successful than others, but definitely not a success. And it's people like you holding us back from progress to a new system that isbetter.
The rest of your post is just bullshit personal attacks. And listen to yourself bitch constantly about how it's always people on the left who do it. Get bent man, you're such a hypocrite.
Feel free to report this post, because I know that's your thing these days... 
Yep, you have got me pegged. I just have never had the intellectual curiosity to question the motives of the powers that be. I am just so naive, that I believe everything they say without question. After all, that is how most people are. Few can be so enlightened as to see what you see; that everything is a scam and a scandal. I, with my simple views of the world just can not put two and two together and see that everything is a conspiracy to make some evil politicians rich.
Or just maybe, all of your conspiracy theory garbage is old hat to me. Just maybe, I have heard all the crap you are spewing 10,000 times, and I have learned through the years that it is all childish nonsense.
Imagine that Padawan! Imagine, there could be other people on Earth who actually have more experience with your own arguments than you do! Imagine, not being the first person on the fucking planet to come up with those same ideas! Oh, my God! Just the thought of it must be too much for you to wrap your tiny brain around.
Padawan, I know your conspiracy theory, everyone is getting rich garbage makes sense to you and to all the other uninformed children here. But, I promise you no serious, knowledgeable grown up person holds those opinions. Leaders of the US do not initiate wars for profit - only fools believe that. It is a childish fantasy. It is no less ignorant that believing in big foot or the 911 conspiracy.
Why don't you at least try to imitate a scholarly effort. Why don't you look at the facts behind Desert Storm. I'm not asking you to agree with it, but at least learn the facts. Learn that the ENTIRE WORLD thought Saddam had WMDs. Learn that Saddam was a major sponsor of terror. Learn that he violated numerous UN resolutions. learn that he violated the standing cease fire (from Desert Shield) dozens of times - each time being an act of war.
Again, you don't have to agree with the decision to go into Iraq, but at least learn something about it so you can speak intelligently on the subject instead of just using the same old tired theories that every ignorant moron trots out - that it is about money or oil. What will it take to make you understand that this is not enlightenment, it is merely the mantra of the ignorant.
