Its an excuse for cheap oil...

also rofl at this > http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/article827745.ece

Who cares about democracy where 2 peasants > 1 professor.

"How is invading Iraq and Afghanistan 'defending democracy'? Are these two land-locked desert nations going to bypass our navy, and subsequently conquer us militarily?"
War is just a business, especially this war, which has resources involved. Big money guys with their official organisations -gov/companies -are into the big business and smaller companies are into selling weapons business (though most people behind these companies are the big money guys, who make extra money on it)

talking about weapons selling, some quotes from Lord Of War, the movie:

-I had a flair for languages. But I soon discovered that what talks best is dollars, dinars, drachmas, rubles, rupees and pounds fucking sterling.

-Thank God there are still legal ways to exploit developing countries. The only problem with an honest buck is they're so hard to make - the margins are too low, too many people are doin' it.

-Every faction in Africa calls themselves by these noble names - Liberation this, Patriotic that, Democratic Republic of something-or-other... I guess they can't own up to what they usually are: a federation of worse oppressors than the last bunch of oppressors. Often, the most barbaric atrocities occur when both combatants proclaim themselves freedom-fighters. (!)

-Bullets change governments far surer than votes.

-Selling a gun for the first time is a lot like having sex for the first time. You're excited but you don't really know what the hell you're doing. And some way, one way or another, it's over too fast.

-I sell to leftists, and rightists. I sell to pacifists, but they're not the most regular customers.

-We're with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
-Let me guess... this isn't about the alcohol or tobacco.

-Where there's a will, there's a weapon.

-I sell guns to every army but the Salvation Army.

-Sir! Sir, may I interest you in the shoulder fired S-37 surface-to-air missle? It's the old Chinese model. Not so effective against modern military aircraft but deadly if used against a commerical airliner.

-You read the newspapers, Vit?
-Newspaper? It's always the same.
-You're right. Every day there's people shooting each other. You know what I do when I see that? I look to see what guns they're using and I think to myself, why not my guns?

-The problem with gun runners going to war, is that there is no shortage of ammunition.

-The primary market was Africa, Eleven major conflicts involving twenty three countries in less than a decade. A gunrunner's wet dream. At the time the West couldn't care less, they had a white war in what was left of Yugoslavia.