Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

Weren't Nineveh's inhabitants wicked?  Certainly Sodom and Gomorrah were packed to the brim with sinners so naturally God simply had to incinerate them all.  It was Lot's silly wife's own fault she glanced back at the Jehovah-ordained ethnic cleansing of sinners of Sodom and Gomorrah and was instantly turned into a pillar of salt.  

With fables and myths like that swirling around in brain dead robotic minds it is no wonder these fundamentalist fantasies are capable of generating a real life hell on earth.

When Hitler came to power there were U.S. backers.  One prominent American family had a banker making loans to Nazi Germany for pig iron to get their war machine going.  One of the biggest airplane manufacturers was selling vital airplane parts to get the airplanes in the Nazi Luftwaffe off the ground.

As for the Japanese factors triggering that nation into war, historians cite one of the trigger factors launching Japanese World War Two battles as oil.  After 50 million dead from World War Two it was thought by some that the world had learned its lesson on the futility of war.   No way!

With robotic minds it is no wonder these fundamentalist fantasies are capable of generating a real life hell on earth.  

When some nations wanted other nations land or assets, they were determined to fight to get whatever they wanted.  Often they recited a litany from the Bible, Koran or whatever religious belief to justify a killing spree to get what they wanted.

The U.S.A. went to war against North Vietnam, declaring that Communists were going to grab Asia if the U.S. didn't stop them.  The mantra of the day then was the domino effect, the belief that if we didn't stop them there that all of Asia would otherwise fall into Communist hands.

The U.S. used weapons destroying not only the people of Vietnam but even despoiling their land.  There were massacres like My Lai and 59,000 U.S. service personnel lost their lives.  

The U.S. used the phrase "light at the end of the tunnel" to offer hope for a hopeless war situation.  Those responsible for this horrifying, hopeless Vietnam War still cling to their fantasies the U.S. did the right thing in spite of the grim outcome are still living in illusion land.

Now we are in the current Iraq War quagmire.  If Saddam was so terrible, the question must be asked, why did the United States supply Saddam with weapons to kill the Iranians?  

Did the Iranians ever threaten or invade the U.S.A.?  Were U.S. leaders trying to destroy enemies of our so-called Middle East friends?  

The Elder Bush's Gulf War was not necessary.  Slant drilling, oil stealing Kuwaitis hastily prompted Saddam to ask the U.S. what he would do if he invaded Kuwait.  

Elder Bush's Administration said it was an Arab-Arab problem for then to solve, prompting Saddam Hussein to invade Kuwait.  Then self-righteous Elder Bush launched the Gulf War.

He was advised not to go into Baghdad and he didn't.  Enter White House new resident, Bush's son who had drank heavily until age 40 by his own admission.  All hell broke loose after 9/11.

Without any proof Saddam or Iraq was behind 9/11, Bush sent fears of imminent death with the fantasy that weapons of mass destruction threatened the U.S.  That launched the infamous "shock and awe" demolition and killing spree in Iraq.

The huge Saddam Hussein statue was knocked over in a media blitz.  The Young Bush leaped on a naval carrier and then declared, "Mission accomplished."  

With what followed, the U.S. looked like a law breaking killer nation, ignoring the Geneva Convention rules of nations conducting war.  Bush blithely declared, after no weapons of mass destruction were found, that the U.S. was going to bring democracy and freedom to not only Iraq but also the entire Middle East.

What the Iraq War has in reality done is this!  The infrastructure to a large extent has been demolished in endless bombings.

Have conditions in Iraq improved?  The latest BBC Poll claims that 70 percent of Iraqis say no.  51 percent of Iraqis say that attacks on occupying forces are justified.  Even the weight lifting champ who four years ago was filmed pounding down Saddam's stature with a sledgehammer said, "The Americans are worse than the dictatorship.  Every day is worse than the previous day," according to London's Independent.

The Guardian pulled no punches on Britain's Tony Blair, explaining, "... at the heart of the Blair strategy to fly at the wing of a bellicose president who, as one U.S. academic put it, comes across as the quintessential ugly American, arrogant, uncouth, uncultured, ignorant, inconsiderate and aggressive.  At his behest Britain has become complicit."

The end result is that one million Iraqis have fled to Syria while 750,000 have fled to Jordan and 7,000 will be coming to the U.S.

According to the latest estimates 3,500 U.S. service personnel have been killed while 55,000 U.S. combatants and noncombatants have been injured.  The latest estimate from a respected Australian scientist is that one million Iraqis have died since the U.S. invasion.

Foreign policy expert Antonia Juhasz wrote in the New York Times that there are 80 oil wells in Iraq and the U.S. wants to give Iraq control of only 17 oil wells and give 63 Iraq oil wells control to foreign investors.  There is no guarantee that oil profits from these foreign-leased wells will be spent in Iraq.

Is this what the Iraq War is all about?  In U.S.A. Today there are estimates of 20 million illegal aliens currently residing in the U.S.A.  The immigration authorities looked the other way while big business profited on cheap labor.  Why weren't big business profiteers prosecuted?

They avoided prosecution for the same reason the world trade agreements represent our U.S. foreign policy.  These agreements provide no minimum wage or working requirements for foreign labor, the reason being that the U.S. Civil War basically wiped out slave labor in the U.S.A. That meant that U.S. business tycoons had to shop around the world to profit from what amounts to slave labor worldwide!

Welcome to the blessings of freedom and democracy in the U.S.A. in 2007.