You kids don't see the underlying point: It's not "republican" or "democrat"... it's fucking capitalism. It is an economic system based on constant exploitation.

It needs new feeding grounds, always. Sometimes we can stall it, by giving it the "digital market" or new products that people are fool enough to buy, but other times it will infect new parts of the globe in order to make more money.

THAT's the hand that is guiding policy in Iraq.. money.

The "Market" needs money, and Iraq is the key to breaking open the very tightly controlled Middle Eastern economies. Iraq was out and out command-economy under Saddam. Saudi Arabia is state-controlled too. Iran? Same thing.

American corporations want arab money.

All the bullshit about "us" and "them" is largely invented (and manipulated) into keeping the rest of us divided.