Can We Celebrate the Iraq War? 
"We'll need to expend at least as much effort and expense as we've squandered on our wars. Both as a nation and as individuals, we Americans will put our energies and our dollars, indeed our lives, into efforts for a better world. If we have to go to war to create a better world, we are doomed to failure."
World War One was called "The war to end all wars." World War Two saw 50 million people die and the discovery of the atom bomb, followed by nuclear power that gave mankind the means to destroy everybody and everything on the planet.
If we cannot face the reality of the doomsday potential we have now created, we will be racing to the long prophesied Armageddon end of the world scenario. The threat of the military industrial complex singing the siren song of doom is heard as it seduces the ignorant while the gullible claim that another war will bring us closer to peace.
Now with the military promising victory in Iraq in the war that has not delivered democracy or freedom, but death, destruction and debt, what is happening now? The shortsighted, foolish Congress is listening to the pied piper of destruction as the death toll constantly rises.
Why wasn't an independent 9/11 investigation launched to see how Bush, Cheney and their crew got the U.S. into a war that has not helped Iraq, the U.S. or anyone? Oil was the reason behind the Iraq War according to many. Were they wrong?
In the San Diego Union-Tribune Thursday, May 10, 2007, an Associated Press story is captioned, "Putin takes Aim at Estonia, U.S."
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who spoke from a podium of Lenin's Mausoleum, hailed Victory Day of World War Two, then laid it on the line on the subject of the aggressive nature of the current U.S. administration:
"He (Putin) also honored the contribution of Western allies to the defeat of Adolf Hitler's Germany but appeared to take a swipe at the United States, saying that the world now seeds threats to peace `based on the same disrespect for human life, claims to global exclusiveness and diktat, just as it was in the Third Reich.'"
While Putin did not specifically mention the U.S.A., he did object to deployment of a missile defense system in Eastern Europe.
The shadows are lengthening for George W. Bush and his destructive crew.
While the few world leaders who supported his Iraq War efforts have now been repudiated by the citizenries of their own governments, the latest casualty being Britain's Tony Blair, Putin and other leaders point to the dangers posed by a pattern of neoconservative aggression and the need to halt such dangerous momentum, which carries the grave threat of global conflict.
In the same May 28, 2007 edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that was earlier referenced, Paul Spitalny of Seattle makes the following timely comments regarding war and the current U.S. Iraq involvement:
"In my opinion, war is the lowest, most wretched form of human behavior. The `war' in Iraq is none other than an invasion of Iraq by a hostile invader (the U.S.) in order to install a government there to our government's liking. It is a criminal act, and it provides our government with an efficient method to divert money from desperately needed social programs as well as energy research and climate change research and other needed programs that will help us to advance and flourish."
KEYWORDS: Iraq War Deceit, Military Industrial Complex, Dwight D. Eisenhower, George W. Bush, Vladimir Putin
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