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Fighting a war for the bottom line
By Wade Stewart
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Monday, October 20, 2003
It seemed for a while, say around May or earlier of this past year, that peace signs became more offensive to flash than the middle finger. It was discouraging to even suggest peace could be achieved without war, especially with the neo-conservatives' successful PR campaign.
This campaign has slowly fallen apart as the weapons of mass destruction are not found. Their case for the liberation of Iraqi people was an afterthought to make it look like a humanitarian effort, so that they can hide the fact they want Iraq as an oil-producing sweatshop. This is hardly surprising from a group that unfairly transformed all war protesters into anti-American, soldier-hating Nazi sympathizers. You need only turn to Fox News to have seen that.
These neo-cons have their own agency called the Project for a New American Century, or PNAC, and have turned the Middle East into this century's Cold War. I guess since communism is hardly the threat it once was, they wanted to find a more profitable war area that they could invest stocks into.
PNAC has quite the alumni with Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz all belonging. I'd love to see a deck of cards with their graduate class posted. The mission off their Web site is that "American leadership is good both for America and for the world; that such leadership requires military strength, diplomatic energy and commitment to moral principle."
It almost sounds like a world version of the KKK.
These neo-cons needed an excuse to begin their plan for global dominance - that spark was 9/11. When almost 3,000 people of every nationality were senselessly killed at the World Trade Center, they formed a mythical connection to Saddam. Now over 3,000 innocent Iraqi civilians were killed in the neo-cons' war, and our own soldiers' death count is on the rise. I will continue to flash a peace sign and hope it becomes less offensive soon.
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