[whitecrow]

Originally Posted by shybastid

O.K. For the record....The United States is NEVER going to leave Iraq...I dont know WHY we're there.
Oil.
Stargates.
Just good strategic positioning,geographicly speaking..

Yes, I've heard the stargate story. It was why I wrote the original post. There is a lot of strange stuff there in the Middle East, and Iraq is where some of the oldest stuff is. Remember the beginning of The Exorcist? It may or may not have been represented as Iraq where that old priest was excavating...I really don't remember...but remember the reptilian god?

As far as staying there permanently, I have heard that too, and I know about the Embassy. What I said about depleted uranium is fact. I believe there must exist a way to clean up radioactivity...I've tended to think the aliens know how to do this...maybe our gummint now has that ability as well (not that they'd ever use it for the benefit of mankind).

It's all very strange...I have a hard time believing that oil is the whole story, even when you factor in the pipelines going in around the Black Sea. It's really hard to see how this will end well for anyone involved including us.