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Rich · 06-21-2005, 03:43 PM

The war costs the taxpayers money... it makes the bankers, war profiteers, and media corporations billions. War is a cash grab for the elites, money goes from the public to the wealthy. It's also an excuse to silence decent and increase authoritarianism at home.

The strategic value of this war for the war mongers is to take control of one of the world's largest oil reserves. People who say "cheap oil" don't get it. America citizens are not going to reap the spoils of war in the form of cheap oil, in fact oil is at something like a 20 year high right now. America doesn't need the oil so much as they want to keep other countries from buying it, China most importantly. It's a valuable strategic resource that they want control of, this is why American troops will never leave Iraq unless they're forced out. The only way they'll be forced out is if the American public pulls their heads out of their asses and demands and end to the killing. The powers that be don't give two shits how many of our boys die and how much of our tax money is wasted.

Aside from the obvious rhetoric of "spreading freedom" and "fighting terrorism", which only the most naive people fall for, the public is fooled into believing that somehow they're going to benefit from the war by getting cheap gas. What a huge fucking joke that is, the public will never gain a thing from this or any other war.

That being said, until there's a revolution, America will always be at war with someone. The US can't survive in it's current state without perpetual war. That's why they have to feed everyone such nonsense in public schools, about America being the home of freedom and about how all the wars they've fought are for the greater good. From the revolutionary war being a "middle class" war to the civil war being fought over slavery, it's all nonsense to keep us idiots in line and not questioning the war machine. War is the health of the state.

Thank God we have TV to keep us in a constant state of numb distraction or we might actually start to notice how we're constantly killing poor people overseas for the profit of a few.

06-21-2005, 03:43 PM
Rich So Fucking Banned Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 11,486	The war costs the taxpayers money... it makes the bankers, war profiteers, and media corporations billions. War is a cash grab for the elites, money goes from the public to the wealthy. It's also an excuse to silence decent and increase authoritarianism at home. The strategic value of this war for the war mongers is to take control of one of the world's largest oil reserves. People who say "cheap oil" don't get it. America citizens are not going to reap the spoils of war in the form of cheap oil, in fact oil is at something like a 20 year high right now. America doesn't need the oil so much as they want to keep other countries from buying it, China most importantly. It's a valuable strategic resource that they want control of, this is why American troops will never leave Iraq unless they're forced out. The only way they'll be forced out is if the American public pulls their heads out of their asses and demands and end to the killing. The powers that be don't give two shits how many of our boys die and how much of our tax money is wasted. Aside from the obvious rhetoric of "spreading freedom" and "fighting terrorism", which only the most naive people fall for, the public is fooled into believing that somehow they're going to benefit from the war by getting cheap gas. What a huge fucking joke that is, the public will never gain a thing from this or any other war. That being said, until there's a revolution, America will always be at war with someone. The US can't survive in it's current state without perpetual war. That's why they have to feed everyone such nonsense in public schools, about America being the home of freedom and about how all the wars they've fought are for the greater good. From the revolutionary war being a "middle class" war to the civil war being fought over slavery, it's all nonsense to keep us idiots in line and not questioning the war machine. War is the health of the state. Thank God we have TV to keep us in a constant state of numb distraction or we might actually start to notice how we're constantly killing poor people overseas for the profit of a few.