[Peace-discuss] Consensus

[C. G. Estabrook]

Bob Illyes wrote:
> ... To find out what the motivations for a war are, you have to ask
> those who support the war.

	QUESTION TO A SUPPORTER OF THE WAR, BERLIN, 1939:
	"Why has Germany invaded Poland?"

	ANSWER: "Because the Jews are plotting against us."

> ...I have met to date only one person who thinks that we should be in
> Iraq to secure their oil for our own purposes ... My own opinion is
> that we are in Iraq largely because the administration is packed with
> fools, that this is absolute folly.

The flyer specifically says that the US doesn't need Iraqi oil for our 
own purposes.  In that sense, the decision of American planners (who are 
not fools) to invade Iraq was strategic, rather than economic.