IT'S THE WAR!! IT'S THE WAR!! DON'T BE DISTRACTED: IT'S THE WAR!!

islandmkl

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Mon Mar-17-08 10:52 PM
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IT'S THE WAR!! IT'S THE WAR!! DON'T BE DISTRACTED: IT'S THE WAR!!

Edited on Mon Mar-17-08 10:54 PM by islandmkl

This illegal war, defined as such more by the lack of Congressional oversight and control than by the Bush Administrations' ignoring of American and international laws, is at the root of our current economic crisis. Not single-handedly, though it has raided our Treasury of Billion$ and written IOU's for future generations to bear. The toll in human sacrifice, both American and Iraqi, is beyond determination; the future costs, in both money and human lives, bear no sign of dissipating.

Where does this singular cause find itself so intertwined in our current economic crisis?

It's not just the money. It's the attitude; the outright circumventing of laws; the direct violations of executive powers; the total manipulation of a 'favorable' Congress for so many years; the atmosphere of fear spread far and wide on a regular, if not daily basis; the total lack of regard for the Constitution of the United States of America, all the while propagandizing 'patriotism'; the establishment of a system to empower and enrich the 'privileged' as not seen in our society for more than 100 years, a system rife with complicit endowment from 'both sides of the aisle'; the total profitization of all that war can bring to an economy WHEN THE PEOPLE ALLOW WAR.

WHEN THE PEOPLE ALLOW WAR, they allow most anything else. We are raped by the gasoline companies through an 'Energy Plan' they devised with the Vice-President; we see Wall Street playing fast and loose with 'unregulated' securities backed by worthless collateral; we see BILLION$ injected into the 'economy' OVERNIGHT to prevent major 'central bank' failures, all issued 'on credit', the credit of the American people; we see jobs sent overseas to make mega-corporations their mega-profits, while eroding American consumer buying power; we see that same buying power reduced in tandem by the falling dollar and the subsequent rise in prices for energy and food; we see the middle and poorer segments of our society forced more and more to struggle not just to get by, but struggle to see any light at the end of the tunnel, any sign that things can, WILL turn around.

IT'S THE WAR...when we allowed this war to proceed, we completely opened Pandora's Box. There is no saving of the economy...there is no 'lowering' of energy & food prices...there are no jobs coming back to America...there is no financial salvation for the working person...

THERE IS ONLY WAR...war makes profit for the profiteers who promote it, under whatever guise. WAR DESTROYS ALL IT TOUCHES, ON ANY FRONT.

WE ALLOW WAR, THIS ILLEGAL WAR, THIS WAR BASED ON KNOWN LIES, THIS WAR TO MAKE THE PEOPLE WHO LED US INTO THIS WAR RICH, THIS WAR THAT ENTWINED HONEST PEOPLE IN ITS LIES TO RENDER THEM POWERLESS TO REFUTE THE LIES, THIS WAR THAT IS KILLING NOT ONLY GOOD AMERICANS, GOOD IRAQIS, GOOD PEOPLE...

THIS WAR IS KILLING AMERICA...

IT'S THE WAR.