(3/20/2007) The war in Iraq has just entered its fifth year and over 3,200 American soldiers are dead and over 24,000 have been wounded. Well over 100,000 Iraqi citizens are dead, mostly innocent civilians, and over 4 million have been displaced from their homes. Our government has already spent nearly half a trillion dollars and the final cost is projected to top one trillion dollars before it's all over. A vast majority of the American people are now against the war, as are most of the U.S. military leadership and members of the U.S. Congress. So why are we still there? Answer: Because the Bush administration won't get us out, and I'm going to tell you why.

The reason we went to Iraq and the reason we are still there are actually four reasons, as follows, but not necessarily in this order:

1. Oil    2. Debt   3. Greed   4. Israel

Let me explain each of these reasons for taking America into a war in Iraq followed by my ideas for getting our soldiers out of Iraq:

Oil

Bush's initial plan for going to war in Iraq was called "Operation Iraqi Liberation", or "OIL". As soon as the U.S. attacked Iraq the output of oil from Iraq was cut in half, from 4 million barrels per day to 2 million barrels per day. This significant reduction in world oil supplies sent prices skyrocketing. This increase in oil prices correlated with huge increases in the profits of the big oil corporations. ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, ChevronTexaco, & ConocoPhillips have all recorded record profits of $342 billion from 2001 through the first quarter of 2006. Could these huge profits have anything to do with the fact Bush, Cheney, and Rice are all former oil company executives?

The big increase in oil prices, along with deregulations, gave the big U.S. utility corporations (electricity producers and suppliers) an excuse to jack-up their prices to consumers and they have also been reporting record breaking profits during this same time period. Therefore, the bottom line is "the bottom line".

It is now obvious that the war in Iraq has resulted in huge windfall profits for the big U.S. oil companies and the big U.S. utility companies, and from these facts I conclude that our government's top leaders planned this outcome for the very start. Bush says: "Mission Accomplished!"

Debt

Presidents Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II are responsible for almost 90% of our country's current debt burden, which will top $9 trillion dollars later this year. I believe these Republican leaders are deliberately bankrupting our federal government with massive increases in the federal debt so that their rich campaign contributors can buy our government's $100 trillion in assets for pennies on the dollar. Those assets, which include over 25% of all the real estate in America, belong to all the American people, but could soon belong to the highest bidder.

The war in Iraq was the excuse the Bush administration created so that they could pass legislation that greatly increased federal spending. These spending increases, along with huge tax cuts for the very rich, have sent our government's deficits and debt skyrocketing to record levels. The total federal debt increased by $141 billion in 2001, $429 billion in 2002, $562 in 2003, $595 billion in 2004, $551 billion in 2005, and $546 billion in 2006.

Bush and his Republican pals like to point out how well our economy is growing under their leadership but they leave out the fact that this growth is largely because of huge increases in federal government spending, and that this spending is actually borrowed money mostly from Social Security surpluses and foreign investors. Bush says: "Mission Accomplished!"

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Greed

The Bush administration has been a big advocate for outsourcing. Not only have they been encouraging American corporations to outsource their jobs to foreign countries to help improve their bottom lines, and giving big billion dollar government contracts to foreign corporations, but they have also been outsourcing our military's tasks, duties, and responsibilities to big corporations. This military outsourcing ends up costing our government ten times more then it would otherwise and these corporations end up doing a terrible job.

Halliburton, Dick Cheney's former employer, has received billions of dollars in non-bid contracts for its work in Iraq and its stock price has tripled over the past few years. Bush's former Chief of Staff, Joe Allbaugh, left the administration several years ago to start a company that helps other companies get government contracts for the war in Iraq. The horrible tortures and killings at Abu Ghraib prison committed by American servicemen were being directed by private contractors, none of whom have been held accountable.

The war in Iraq has been a wealth bonanza for a handful of private corporations, including President Bush's father's company, The Carlyle Group. Bush says: "Mission Accomplished!"

Israel

All the countries in the Middle East hate Israel because of Israel's constant land stealing, collective punishments against innocent people, and inhumane treatment of all the people in Palestine, and now they hate America for its blind support for Israel. When Iraq was run by Saddam Hussein it was at the top of the list of countries that hated Israel. Iraq had a long history of supporting the poor, oppressed, and occupied Palestinian people with money and weapons, but that all ended when Bush sent our soldiers to war in Iraq.

Despite Bush's constant claims to the contrary there still is no evidence that Iraq had any WMDs or anything to do with 9/11. 

The reality is that our American soldiers are being used as proxies for Israeli soldiers to kill Jew haters in the Middle East. The biggest advocate for Bush's war in Iraq has been, and continues to be, Joe Lieberman, a Democrat and a Jew. The top Democrat in the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid, is married to a Jew and he recently said that as a result of his wife's Jewish heritage his children have an automatic right to citizenship in Israel. Dick Cheney recently told a group of Jews at an AIPAC conference that "George W. Bush is the best friend Israel has ever had in the White House" which resulted in a huge cheering standing ovation. By the way, George W. Bush is also married to a woman with Jewish heritage.

Although Jews account for less than 4% of the population in America their representation in the U.S. Senate is 14%, and there are a total of 43 Jews in the 110th Congress, and that does not account for people in Congress who are married to Jews or related to Jews by race. Are these people loyal to America or Israel?

Now, the Jewish controlled media in America is trying to sell the American people on the idea that Iran is developing WMD's and that America should take military actions to prevent this from happening.

American soldiers, mostly Gentiles, are being sacrificed in Iraq so that Jewish soldiers won't be, and if these right-wing neo-con Jews in the U.S. have their way even more of our soldiers will be sacrificed for Israel's security. Bush says: "Mission Accomplished!"

Summary

We, the American people, were lied to about the reasons for going to war in Iraq, about the cost of the war in Iraq, about the length of the war in Iraq, and about the results of the war in Iraq. We have also been lied to about tax cuts, political ideologies, elections, tort reforms, and a long list of other legislation. Our televisions are full of images and words that are perverse, manipulative, dishonest, and evil, and the music and advertisements on the radio are even worse. This mindwashing propaganda has most of the American people living in a dumbed-down mental state of political apathy, bigoted political ideas, unhealthy diets, lazy habits, and dangerous levels of personal debt.

The reality is that our government has been taken over by a bunch of organized criminals who are sharing power with a bunch of sycophantic neo-con Jewish thugs. Together they are killing our soldiers needlessly, they are bankrupting our federal government deliberately, they are poisoning our children's minds and bodies uncompassionately, and they are concentrating our country's wealth into the hands of a few families undemocratically.

It is time to end this conspiracy of collusion, corruption, and treason against our federal government, and against us. I recommend that all like minded American citizens join me in an all out lobbying effort to persuade our military leaders to take control of our federal government before our democratic republic is destroyed, and until a new honest citizen government can be formed and corrective laws can be put in place. In the mean time, I recommend that every American citizen join me in constant and unwavering boycotts, protests, and acts of civil disobedience. We can turn the tables on this political corruption and organized criminal behavior and then we can say: "Mission Accomplished!" (see Boycott List)