[Aurel]

As long as there will be naives like Pete Pranger to pay their taxes and give carte blanche to the government to pursue any agressive policy of economical takeover it wishes, wars against terror will continue.
Maybe the world will be shown to us as a safer place, whatever the controlled media will show will be the truth, right ?
Seriously, if the US really wanted to help the Iraqui, should not it start to stop using depleted uranium during combat ? Then, would not it make sense to hire Iraqui people to rebuild their country, rather than giving the businesses to Bechtel and Halliburton for a much higher cost ? What the US is trying to do, without duping anyone, is to rebuild Iraq on its OWN WAYS, for its OWN INTEREST, and make it an economic colony that will have to repay its debt by providing cheap oil. Can you see where the Iraquis are being screwed ? One comes to destroy their country, then generously offers to rebuild it (and generously offers the UN to pay part of the tab) but the catch is that they have to hire those expensive american companies. Iraqui are educated people you know, they have engineers too...but they have oil too, and this is what the US economy needs more than anything. Just imagine paying your gas $4/gallon, with quotas, and having blackouts all the time. Just imagine how our comfortable little lifes would be disturbed, regardless of how much money we have.
It was more about oil than WMDs...Oil and business for the GW`s buddies. I`ll stick to that.

Aurel