Wasted? Are you serious? That money wasn't at all wasted. The rebuilding of Iraq just wasn't part of the real plan. That money was supposed to be lost, deep into the pockets of useful stooges and defense contractors. The empire sought the destruction of Iraq as an 'abject' lesson to the rest of the world. No reason not to make a little money in the bargain, right? Iraq was made an example of, and the lesson is quite clear to those not living in Beltway denial (in other words, most thinking Americans and the majority of folks on the planet). What is the best way, wonders Empire, of getting rid of an annoying independent leader or regime who can't keep his population meek and quiet while the US takes the country into the back room, slaps them around a bit, drops some threats, and finally gets a consent to rape form signed from its US-approved (appointed, often) ruler? Well, one way is to fuel the hatred on both sides, and sell arms to both sides, and let them kill themselves. (The Vienam war, for example, was never supposed to end, just like the 70 wars of the so-called Cold War) In the process, the violence can be used to justify further arms sales and US spending on anything other than domestic social programs, and focus instead on high-profit, for-profit intervention, repression, state-sponsored terror training in US military schools, and the conditions that foreign investors love so well:, low wage, non union, fragmented workers who will not raise their heads to the masters, demand no pensions or benefits, just happy to be able to beg for the crumbs and rubble left them. To begin the article, as this author does, with such assumptions and inferences unexamined shows the extent to which the pro-corporate PR campaign has been successful, and perhaps why we should not expect otherwise. The inference is so commonly applied in the world of what passes for reasonable journalism, that it cannot be simply coincidence, When everyone is thinking the same, then no one is thinking. The underlying assumption, this myth of a lumbering American giant out trying to do good, but in its eagerness to spread noble ideals, more often than not just can't seem to do anything right, "wasting" money prolifically, and making a mess of things, this myth has such clear benefits to enhancing state power and control, that it has succeeded, as a result of heavy corporate funding and influence, to become what passes for reasonable. And like any myth, no serious dissent, or even examination, is allowed. A great many people have learned that the path to wealth and power is to agree with the myth, and a great many others find it much easier to simply agree, rather than take the effort to actually think critically. We all know how poor our schools are at teaching how to think critically. That too is not an accident. It allows a further entrenchment of the Owning class, a further divide, which justifies their wealth and allows our poverty to be a source of ridicule and scorn. For those who are allowed positions as the Owners House Slaves, a great many make a living being spokesmen for power and wealth, people who learn in Public Relations classes how to propose clever excuses for Empire and colonialism and greed and avarice, apologies in clever prose...yes, maybe we have really messed things up in the past, but now we are turning over a new leaf, turning a new page, so we need not worry ourselves over past crimes. The myth is an incredibly useful tool to Empire, and its managers and PR men and journalists take no shame in trotting the pair of them out whenever Empire's rot becomes too great to for even them to ignore. But within a week or two, the press will express the appropriate amount of outrage, and the corruption and ways of the owners will then go away, and the foreign policy discussion will turn to "Reasons to Invade Iran," or whatever the next country on America's Hit Parade becomes designated for Special Attention, a Final Solution. But when your job, your salary depends upon you not seeing something, it doesn't take much thought to see why things are the way they are. Nor does it take a genius to determine that the US, to a very large extent, knows what it's paying for, and gets what it buys. Those who think these "mistakes" are actual mistakes, or are unintended, are either deluded, have no knowledge of US history, or have jobs which depend on them not thinking otherwise. The future of this despoiled Democratic Republican Federation of States, deriving its just power from the consent of the governed, cannot allow its true sovereigns, those less and less represented by the corporate Congress, to be anything but clear about what the masters want, and what they want is all of it, and they will risk anything, including their complete destruction, rather than give away the smallest part of their material advantage. They take to heart Adam Smith's Vile Maxim: All for ourselves, and nothing for anyone else. These people are not evil, they are sociopaths. Their organizations are private, for-profit tyrannies. Morality doesn't even enter into the equation for them. They "know' they have a higher purpose, are not bound by ordinary law, and their writers are paid to confirm it.

FLASH Skull and Bones Pirates Raid National Treasury FLASH Contractors Commit Murder Under Immunity FLASH Contractors Commit Rape Under Immunity FLASH Contractors Drive Off With Truckloads of Money In Iraq FLASH Contractors Kill Innocent Civilians On Purpose Without Cause Under Full Immunity FLASH Contractors Kill US Soldiers with Shoddy Construction FLASH Criminals Run The US Government FLASH Bush Is The Devil FLASH McCain Is The Devil's Advocate.

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