The War in Iraq: War by Deception

This week we been reviewing some conditions regarding the war in Iraq. Why is it that Iraq seems to be just a new version of Vietnam? That's because it is. Instead of fighting the spread of communism in the sixties via theories such as "the Domino theory", (The theory stated that if one land in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.) today we are fighting a faceless enemy of terror that we don't know and we can never find.

How can we ever win a war on terror, when we don't know who it is? The answer from Washington is Osama bin Laden and the Al-Qaeda terrorist group. However, after cornering bin Laden in the mountains near Tora Bora, he somehow manages to escape and supposedly has not been seen since. Of course this makes sense when you don't want to find him. If you don't have an enemy, how can you have a war?

Earlier this week, I commented on the allegations for invading Iraq on the pretense of connections to Al-Qaeda proved false. The other pretense of WMDs also proved false. After years of war and occupation in Afghanistan and Iraq, what accomplishments have we had? We did capture one guy who looked like Saddam, even though his long beard that would take many years to grow draws into question that it is really him. Saddam had never had a beard previously. By the way, what ever happened to that detainee?

Furthermore, it has been cataloged that Bush and seven of his top administration's officials made a total of 935 false statements in the two years following Sept. 11, 2001 about the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. On at least 532 different occasions there were unequivocal statements regarding WMD or Al-Qaeda links or both. Despite numerous bipartisan government investigations, no proof was found. There was even a multinational Iraq Survey Group, whose "Duelfer Report" established that Saddam Hussein had terminated Iraq's nuclear program in 1991 and made little effort to restart it.

So if our leaders consistently lie to us to accomplish their means, when do the American public stop believing them and the media that drowns us daily in their deceptions? The answer is when Americans awake from their TV induced stupor and assert their documented freedoms in the Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence.

Instead of this, more of our freedoms are taken away each year in the guise of our protection. New government agencies have been created with nice names such as Homeland Security Agency and Transportation Security Agency. Are our borders really more secure now than 8 years ago? Is travel more safe? They have created legislation like the Patriot Act and Military Commissions Act. The latter suspends the right of habeas corpus—the ability of an imprisoned person to challenge their confinement in court. What this means is that they can detain indefinitely anyone even suspected of terrorism or money laundering (or anything else they don't like) without any recourse. Whatever happened to the land of the free? This all in the name of security.

In the meantime, the government continues to rack up incredible debt fighting a faceless war that gets passed on to the American public and our future generations. These debts of course benefit the private international bankers that I have mentioned over the last 3 weeks. Why couldn't we have listened to the words of Thomas Jefferson when he said, "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

When will we stop paying for a war with no results? Are the Iraqi people really better off with our troops there? Let's stop the mindless waste of life, liberty, and our sons and daughters!

Although we are of the same flesh and blood as our countrymen and though our sons are as good as theirs, yet we have to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but we are powerless, because our fields and our vineyards belong to others. Nehemiah 5:5 (NIV)

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