retired54 wrote:
"Kurt Ullman" wrote in message
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"retired54" wrote:
we lost the war in iraq the day it started.

We won the war, what we are having problems with is winning the
peace. If you look at past history, this is not an unusual
occurrence is US history.

What did *you* win other than a huge national debt?

## We got to kill lots and lots of goblins. Priceless.


I've never been concerned with winning "freedom" for people just
because they happen to be sitting on a huge oil reserve.

## Germany invaded Russia for oil. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor so the
country could have uninterrupted access to oil in the Dutch East Indies.
Access to oil is a time-tested excuse for going to war.


I'd rather win the war on "oil addiction". Your war just perpetuates
the life style of excess that our planet can't sustain.

## Every time I hear someone long for a simpler time, a less complicated
life, a revel in the serenity of nature's basics, I have one word:

Dentistry.


Yeah you won.


Not yet. We don't have ALL the oil.