A Fool's Mission
Those who have profited the most from the Iraq War are sacrificing the least. Iraq is a glaring example of the disparity between the sacrifice of wealthy elite families and the sacrifice of average income families.
Bush’s family has had multigenerational ties to Texas oilmen and the Saudi royal family. Defense industry contractors like Haliburton and energy industry companies like Exxon Mobile are the Bush regime’s largest campaign contributors. The stock prices for defense companies are thriving at five times what they were before the invasion of Iraq, from huge no bid contracts awarded by the Pentagon.
This premeditated, imperialistic war, which had no connection to 9/11 has cost more than 2,536 Americans their lives. The sons and daughters of the wealthy and politically connected are not making these sacrifices. Furthermore, Bush’s elite are benefiting enormously from his unconscionable tax cuts for his wealthy supporters.
Bush’s tax breaks are at the expense of investments in health and education. This war shifted the greatest surplus in a generation to a debt larger than all previous Presidents combined. This irresponsible stewardship of the economy imposes an enormous burden on working families.
The invasion of Iraq has been a fool's mission from the start and generates more terrorism around the world, than we could ever hope to suppress. It’s ridiculous nonsense that our military can kill enough terrorist to destroy the desire of Iraqi insurgents to be free of our imperialism. We should be attacking the social, political and economic causes of terrorism, but instead we are continuing to fuel the Iraqi insurgency and hatred of America throughout the world.
Iraq is comparable to Vietnam, because in the end we'll look around at the appalling costs in human life and national debt and ask ourselves: What in the world were we thinking?
Bush’s family has had multigenerational ties to Texas oilmen and the Saudi royal family. Defense industry contractors like Haliburton and energy industry companies like Exxon Mobile are the Bush regime’s largest campaign contributors. The stock prices for defense companies are thriving at five times what they were before the invasion of Iraq, from huge no bid contracts awarded by the Pentagon.
This premeditated, imperialistic war, which had no connection to 9/11 has cost more than 2,536 Americans their lives. The sons and daughters of the wealthy and politically connected are not making these sacrifices. Furthermore, Bush’s elite are benefiting enormously from his unconscionable tax cuts for his wealthy supporters.
Bush’s tax breaks are at the expense of investments in health and education. This war shifted the greatest surplus in a generation to a debt larger than all previous Presidents combined. This irresponsible stewardship of the economy imposes an enormous burden on working families.
The invasion of Iraq has been a fool's mission from the start and generates more terrorism around the world, than we could ever hope to suppress. It’s ridiculous nonsense that our military can kill enough terrorist to destroy the desire of Iraqi insurgents to be free of our imperialism. We should be attacking the social, political and economic causes of terrorism, but instead we are continuing to fuel the Iraqi insurgency and hatred of America throughout the world.
Iraq is comparable to Vietnam, because in the end we'll look around at the appalling costs in human life and national debt and ask ourselves: What in the world were we thinking?
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