[Peace-discuss] IVAW's open letter to Obama

[Jenifer Cartwright]

Thanks, Neil. Yes, I do recall something like that at the time (when they also tho't the war would be over in e g a week). And Carter's justification re no reparations for Vietnam?
 --Jenifer


--- On Sat, 11/8/08, Neil Parthun <lennybrucefan at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Neil Parthun <lennybrucefan at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] IVAW's open letter to Obama
To: jencart13 at yahoo.com
Cc: "E. Wayne Johnson" <ewj at pigs.ag>, Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
Date: Saturday, November 8, 2008, 7:56 PM


I think it goes back to the Bush administration's (i.e. Paul Wolfowitz) arguments that the Iraq war was supposed to pay for itself -- Iraqi oil profits and revenues would pay for the reconstruction.


I personally don't see the morality there in Wolfy's arguments (mainly because there seems to be none) but that was the argument given and accepted by much of the public in the buildup to the war in 2003.




Smile and keep fighting,
                    
     Neil






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