Think about the end game

If you're like most Americans, you don't have a ton of time to research the news. The mass media is very convenient, so it's what a lot of us rely on. In the past, this wasn't such a bad idea, as news organizations prided themselves on impartial and investigative journalism. Now, with the advent of "infotainment" news where the big mainstream sources usually have a conservative bent, it's easy to miss important facts. It's even easier to forget what has transpired, as the mainstream media rarely shows the cause-and-effect of neocon policies that harm the US, no matter how important it is for us to be in the know.


First, a couple of refreshers. When we were being sold the fabricated justification for waging war against Iraq, we heard all about Iraq being behind 9/11 and their nuclear weapons program aimed at America. We heard all about how conquering Iraq would be easy, and would certainly not take six months. All this and much more to justify a cessation against the hunt for the actual 9/11 perpetrators so we could focus on securing a cheap supply of oil (reminder - before we started dropping bombs on Iraqis, gas was $1.50/gallon).

Knowing what they were plunging us into, the Bush Administration even claimed that waging war on Iraq would essentially be free, because their oil money would pay for it all. What a whopper of a lie that was, as a generation of Americans will be in debt to Saudi Arabia and China for the loans we've taken out to pay for Dubya's war.


So, what is the neocon plan for Iraq? They had been planning this war for many years and just needed an excuse to launch missiles. They were privy to the actual intelligence about how the country works, not just the "they're evil" so-called intelligence that they broadcast to America. Part of that plan was seen during the invasion, on the road to Baghdad. The military warned against a major insurgency, and therefore recommended capturing and holding on to Iraqi weapons caches as part of the invasion. The Bush Administration overrode this recommendation, and ordered massive weapons caches to be abandoned by the US military. These weapons, of course, were in turn used against US soldiers.

Now we're finding out that huge piles of US taxpayer money is being used to purchase military weaponry, only to have those weapons disappear. Once again, the US plan for Iraq is resulting in arming those who would most want to kill Americans.


Now Bush is putting together a plan to pour $20,000,000,000 worth of US weapons into in the Middle East. The neocons are claiming that heavily arming what they consider "moderate" dictatorships will somehow cause less death and destruction.


Remember, before Dubya's war against Iraq, the Iraqi people (not that bastard Saddam, I'm talking about the actual people) could care less about America and Americans. The Bush Administration policies towards Iraq has now created at least a generation that now, justifiably, hates the US for what they have done.

The Nation dared to actually interview Iraqis. You will never hear from everyday Iraqis from the mainstream media, because the news is not good.

Now ask yourself - given what has been done, what do you think the primary motivation of the Republican Party was in waging war against Iraq? Sure, their immediate motivation is to be all about the oil, that's obvious. But what's their planned endgame for starting wars and flooding the region with weapons? Think about it before you consider re-electing this plan again in '08.