reveal media bias!

Here`s the truth of why we invaded Iraq--Michael Leeden. This is not only a fascinating read--but the truth revealed about the neocons that ran the American war machine for the past eight years.

If you're a libertarian or a onservative, this is not what you want to hear or believe.

Pat Buchannan:

Pat Buchanan, a powerful and sane anti-war voice in the U.S. put the best gloss on American war aims in one of his columns.

“The neoconservative dream was to create a pro-American, free-market democracy in Iraq to serve as a model and catalyst for Arab peoples and convert Iraq into a base camp of American Empire, flanking Iran and Syria. It was to bring to power an Iraqi De Gaulle named Ahmed Chalabi, who would recognize Israel, build a Mosul-to-Haifa oil pipeline and become the Simon Bolivar of the Middle East.”

He seems to have what I would call an insane view of war.  Almost entirely backwards.

War solves one problem and only one problem.  We have so much ware because that problem is so prevalent.  <b>Over population</b>.

If a country does not have both the resources and the government sufficient for it's population, war breaks out.  It continues until one of the 'end results' happens:

1. The population has decreased to the point where the resources and government can handle it,
2. It has conquered enough new territory (and resources) to support the population
3. Technology has advanced creating better ways to manage resources.
4. A new government (either new people or new structure) takes over that is more capable of handling it's resources and government

Attempting to create a democracy by outside violence is a poor idea.  Too many ways your attempt to fix the problem can end up making it worse.  You can kill enough enemey soldiers so that the ineffienct government can manage to hang onto power.  You can get the evil government to find new technology and resources from your enemeies.  You can kill off the stupid members of the evil army, allowing bright, smart evil men to take over.

Better to peacibly prevent the evil country from attacking others.   Eventually that country will either end up in a revolution/civil war (Iran)  where it will either evolve a better, more democratic government or achieve a death grip on it's own population, slowly strangling itself (North Korea).  But the death grip is a tightrope.  Eventually sane leaders (or their heirs) realize what they are doing and stop.