in a conversation with a young student from Pakistan I finally realized that had Gandhi not given up on Indian unity things might have been quite different

I have been saying for years that you can talk & write about Bushco, the Neocons, the government in general and their various crimes and misdeeds until you run out of breath or your fingers fall off. Guess what? They don’t care because they know that although it will bother them, it will not hurt them to any great degree.

About the only peaceful process left to the American people is the ballot box. Vote all of the usual suspects out of office at every opportunity. Quit getting your news from the corporate rags, radio and television.

The next step is to take a lesson from Gandhi and proceed with civil disobedience. Sure, it will cost us all something but it will be worth it in order to change the current status quo which if left unchecked, will lead America to eventual disaster.

The FR is private corporation, yet the the USA government allows it to control the money supply. Wilson jumped into WW1 becasue he was “persuaded” to by the money men. Wall Street funded both sides of the war indirectly by extending credit, and thereby hedging its risk for capital and interest. (the first hedge fund).

Same occurred in WW2. Wall Street, via Union Bank, funded IG Farben for example, which provided arms and funding to the Nazis. Same for Korea. Same for Vietnam. Same for Israel. Same for Iraq – for which the payback from Iraq exceeds all other conflicts prior. Same for Iran, next. Prescott Bush, grandfather of your pres Bush, was a director of Union Bank and the FR. Also, father Bush is heavily tied to Saudi oil. Bush Jr is simply along for the ride, having accomplished nothing of any import. – and this is where he danger for the rest of us lies, as proven now by Iraq.

The Bush family is heavily tied to money supply, oil, and defense contracting. Bush family is using America for its personal gains, yet few oppose – because too many power people make money from the conficts and presidential favours.

So, yes Powell is correct, but he does not analyse WHY the USA went to war. History does repeat whenever the elite stand to gain and the structures exist to permit them to gain. Wars will end either: when the structures change; or the people regain their purchasing power by using anything other than paper money. Neither are likely to occur without armed revolution, and Washington has used its military on its own people – a military no citizen group could stand up to. So Americans and the rest of the world can continue to look forward to war after war after war.

Antiwar.com and radio are great mediums! But more is needed than a simple antiwar protest.

If I hear WW2 called the “good war” or the generation which fought it “the greatest generation” one more time I’ll barf–and I’m a member of that generation and was in the war. It’s only distinction is being an even greater disaster than WW1, not easily done.

There are no good wars, least of all the most destructive war ever.