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Originally Posted by garinda
In answer to one of your questions, the Red Crescent, the equivalent of the red cross, does a lot of humanitarian work throughout the world and not just in Muslim countries.
In answer to your other question regarding the war in Iraq and it's merits in relationship to your national debt, perhaps you should ask your own government. I'm not being flippant in that answer John, perhaps you can tell us what the man in the street thinks about American loss of lives and the financal cost, versus the benefits gained by your country?
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That is the point I am trying to make. There is no financial benefit gained by this country from the Iraqi war. Just the opposite, it's costing us a bloody fortune. Same with the UK. I'm quite sure the long term mission is to try to provide stable supplies of oil to the west as well as trying to ensure a democracy and better life for the Iraqi people. We are struggling with that at the moment, no secret there. That is why the UK are there also, looking after their own interests and quite rightly so. You know that Europe will benefit just as much as America from any such stable oil supplies but it takes someone to ensure the stability. Anybody can sit on the fence like Switzerland does and proclaim nutrality during all wars. But where the hell would Switzerland be now if Nazi Germany had not been challenged by the Brits and the Yanks. Do you think it would still be the banking capital of the world? France must be laughing its socks off. Let the Brits and the Yanks spend all their cash, we'll just sit back and reap all the benefits for no damned input. I'm quite sure the man in the street in both our countries bitterly regrets the loss of life and also counts the financial cost. Fact is, somebody's got to do it. Fact is, it's always the Brits and the Yanks. Fact is, we make mistakes like everyone else. Fact is, if it wasn't for our two great countries, our world would have gone to hell in a handbasket over the last 80 years. Two great German war machines and/or the threat of Russian supremacy would have ensured that.