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Considering that Poland has been an active player in the occupation of Iraq, I suspect they and others have been promised some of the spoils of war. (oil revenue)

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  AnteUp1 year, 4 months ago
  
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  How much - or what - do you think we used as the carrot to encourage
  Saakashvili to pull this stunt in the first place?
  We have many military advisors on the ground in Georgia - and
  have had since 2002. There is NO way we didn't know what was
  planned.
  
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    Spadecaller1 year, 4 months ago
    
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    I believe it has to do with arm sales. We are selling arms to those that we have enslaved by war, such as the Iraqis. One of the ways that we feed our military industrial complex is too create the need foreign countries have for weapons. China and Russia do the same. With Iraq, there may be a lack of hard cash, but who cares, They have black gold;, which is the very reason that we invaded their country.
    
    I am sure, in return for their new and desperate need for weapons, they are willing to give away a greater value of oil in exchange. That is what is called "friendship" between countries. We are now both hated and needed!
    
    Those other nations, like Poland, will share in these "perks".
    
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      AnteUp1 year, 4 months ago
      
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      Yeah - remember the old way to enjoy the diversity of the world?
      Cultural exchanges, exchange students, sister cities?
      Now they get together for arms deals, and trade deals that
      crush others - Hah! and sometimes us! - and the new motto
      is:
      All the friendship money can buy!
      
      So within the next decade - when China will be the number ONE
      economic force on earth.................how many friends will WE have?
      
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