B2S has hit the nail on the head again.
If the reports are true, the sceptics and the ruskis have given tw*t boy a way out where he can retain considerable wealth (and his life), make lots of noises that only a few will listen to and the "pass away peacefully" in about 3 years.
The sceptics won't be able to retain a "puppet" government there, but lets be honest, any change of regime that eliminates the Insane family is obviously going to be more friendly towards the west (as it will have been us who bought that change around) and therefore a bit easier with the oil.
If they (We) can bring Mr Tw*t down, no-one who takes over is ever going to try and piss us off to the same extent as they will only have to look back in history and think "well, they bought Sadam down, I could be next".
They can be independent, individual, rich and happy as long as they sell us the oil and dont give terrorists big bombs and wads of cash.
I know that the west supported him in the past etc, etc, but by spouting that, we are all a bit naive. The US gave Stalin the vehicles that he needed to reach Berlin before us, doesnt mean that we were his buddy after though does it? It served our purpose at the time to support a maniac mass murderer who was probably, in retrospect, worse than Hitler.
We fight for what is right at the time, some of us might not think it is, some of us might honestly see the bigger picture and know that it isn't, some of us might see the bigger picture and know that it is, doesn't matter, Queens shilling and all that.
Who amongst us can honestly say that the Iraqi people (and therefore our petrol) would be worse off under a pseudo western style government than they are under the present fcuking idiot?
Lets not beat around the bush (pun?), this is an oil war with the well being of the Iraqi's a distant second goal, but both could end up benefiting from a regime change.
Lets not forget, we work (or worked the first time round) for the people of our country and our country needs cheap oil. In a fcuked up way, an oil war is a war for the way of life that we lead, we just don't like to see it like that.
Roll on the day when North Sea oil and wind power can generate all that we need. That way we won't have to give a sh1t about the Arabs and the minority in this country that really do (bleeding heart liberals is the required term I believe) can go out there of their own free will and do something about it.
Anyone that disagrees as to whether we as a nation really do give a t0ss about the Arabs, please feel free to start a poll on this site to find out the answer.
Let him go to Moscow with a few billion, at least we shouldn't then have to subject the sprogs (my 1, 4 and 11 year olds included) to a GW3.