Conflict of Interest

[pauliedangerously]

Most of the world was against this war from the start. People warned that President Bush had not made a strong enough case for going into Iraq, that WMD had not been found, that there was no imminent threat. Others warned that military aggression would spark a wide outbreak of terrorism. Numerous cases have been made that there is no military solution to terrorism or the spread of WMD. We sat and watched, on corporate cable television, the executive branch of the government ignore due process, and lead American sons and daughters into a mythological war.

This whole “war on terror” is a diversion to keep people from inquiring about things like proposed oil pipelines from the Caspian Sea to the Persian Gulf and the strong ties between the Bush and Saud families...not to mention the four secret flights carrying Saudi nationals out of the USA just after 9/11. It’s a diversion to make everyone sit down and shut up; to keep people from asking why the government didn’t do anything to prevent this event from happening when it had foreknowledge that an event was going to happen in the imminent future. Why weren’t those fighter jets scrambled in time on 9/11? They knew something was going to happen, but they weren’t sure what, and they let it happen so they could justify going to war.

We Americans are faced with the biggest conflict of interest in US history: an administration intertwined with the oil and defense industry coupled with a haphazard war energized with invocations of God, accusations of treason, and cries of terrorism in an oil-rich land.

The people of this country had better sober up and face the reality that the rest of the world sees. We have been deceived by our own government; by a spoiled, rich, ex-drunk (probably still a drunk) of a president whose father had to pull favors for to get him into Yale and Harvard, and to get him out of going to Viet Nam, trying to pass himself off as a regular guy. What’s not to get?

[checks-n-balances]

1. I'm with you, I don't know why everybody isn't outraged

People are either blind, stubborn, hopelessly brainwashed, or knowingly complicit in enabling this madness. What else does it take for them to wake up to the alarms and warning signs?

The GOP should change in meaning from "Grand Old Party" to "Grand Oligarchy Party". Some folks have been calling them the GHP (H for Hypocrisy), but I think they should change their name to something that includes a combination of the following:

Bullying
Conflict-of-Interest
Criminal
Oligarchy
Totalitarian

There are others; I would even add "Satanic." Regardless of their religious preening & posturing, they are NOT engaged in doing God's will/work for humanity. Their actions and ideas blaspheme a benevolent, just and loving God.

I think that all this WILL hit more people, but unfortunately, some of the biggest changes have been set up to happen AFTER the election when it'll be too late.

Even if defeated in November, the RW Neocon Bushbots and their puppet pPresident have not finished destroying this country. That is not an exaggeration.