Truth Convicts

It should be common knowledge by now that Iraq and Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11. The attack and subsequent occupation of Iraq was carried out under the cloak of 9/11 via Nazi propaganda techniques with a false accusation that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. Eight years and almost five thousand U.S. troops later and these bloody wars continue. So far a million Iraqi’s have been murdered from the on going war not to mention the million, mostly children (around 576,000) which died from UN sanctions prior to the 2003 invasion. I believe violence against innocence to be the greatest of all sins. One innocent life is worth more than all the money in the world but if we are to understand the fullness of this mess then it must be discussed.

“The (congressional) committee estimated $1.3 trillion in war costs by the end of 2008 for Iraq, and the remainder for Afghanistan. The total war costs could grow to $3.5 trillion by 2017 …The committee calculated the average cost of both wars for a family of four would be $20,900 from 2002 to 2008. The cost for a family of four would go up to $46,400 from 2002 to 2017, the committee said…’For every dollar we spend directly in Iraq, we're going to pay another dollar for the indirect, but immediate, costs of the war,’ Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York, said. ‘We of the baby boom generation and our children and grandchildren will be paying for this war for a very long time to come.’ ‘We cannot afford this war -- $12 billion dollars a month?" Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, said. ‘We just can't. We can't continue." Oh we can and we are, at least until August of 2010 with 50,000 troops still to remain. Meanwhile, Barrack Hussein Obama is shifting costs and troops from Iraq too Afghanistan only furthering the failure and bloodshed.

So where does this money go? Many places of course but why are we paying terrorists?  That is reality according to this excerpt from General Patreaus’ book The Gamble, “Cook's bottom line was that many low- level fighters had joined the insurgency for the money. By taking them away from al Qaeda and putting them on the American payroll, he said, the huge economic advantage of the United States was finally brought to bear in Iraq. "They could not compete with the sheer volume of cash we were able to put in people's (terrorists) hands," he said. Payments of $300 a month each to 1,500 local security guards amounted to nearly a half million dollars a month, he noted... A subsequent investigation found strong evidence that some of the Iraqi police colluded with the attackers. (Emphasis added)” That is how we should be spending tax payer money. Let’s make the terrorists a better offer than Al Qaeda and “hope” they don’t attack the troops. If this isn’t funding both sides of a war than I don’t know what is. Maybe a larger example will suffice? Do you remember when the Soviet Union was going through their severe economic crisis during their nine year Soviet-Afghan War? The U.S. was supplying the Afghani and Arab Jihads, which included Osama Bin Laden, with advanced weapons and training to combat the Soviets? Now Obama wants to combat the U.S. trained and armed troops of Afghanistan.

Let’s give the 9/11 Commission official report the benefit of the doubt and analyze the U.S. reaction. Osama Bin Laden from a cave in Afghanistan and his terrorist cell network hijacked four commercial airplanes, flew them around for a couple of hours, and carried out the attacks on September 11^th killing 2,752 Americans. The U.S. responds by invading Afghanistan almost a month later. Obama, as if ordering french fries, recently biggie sized his order of troops to Afghanistan by 17,000 to arrive at a whopping 38,000 total. U.S. deaths there have tripled in the first two months of 2009. What has come of the surge in troops to the region? “As troops pour into the country and violence rises, another sobering measure has also increased: More Afghan civilians are dying in U.S. and allied operations than at the hands of the Taliban,” according to a count by The Associated Press. That is a sobering thought. Our men are dying and they are killing innocent people? “In the first two months of the year, U.S., NATO or Afghan forces have killed 100 civilians while militants have killed 60,” according to The Columbia Daily Tribune. The U.S. says they want to stop the drug trafficking out of Afghanistan but at the same time are going to help them build roads, at our expense, to help their economy through the flow of goods. There we go again devastating a nation only to rebuild it once more.

Recap:

· 2,752 Americans murdered on 9/11

· U.S. murders a million people in Iraq and countless others in Afghanistan

· As a result, roughly five thousand U.S. soldiers lose their life

· 31,102 U.S. soldiers have been wounded as of April 6, 2009,

· Soldiers diagnosed with PTSD are among the highest suicide rates

· Our freedom wars have stripped the American people of their liberty

· Trillions of tax payer dollars spent on an unpopular war

· U.S. relations with the rest of the world have crumbled along with the economy

A bit of an overreaction wouldn’t you agree? It holds true that when the rich wage war it is the poor who die and if you kill in the hundreds of thousands it is considered war and not murder. If you terrorize a few you are a terrorist but if you terrorize the masses you spread democracy. If your beliefs are held by a few you are a cultist but if you have millions of members you are religious. This country was once a great Republic in which all were held accountable under law. Democracy is flawed by a majority rule. When the majority is the uneducated ignorant half, like is our case, the country will fall. I will soon be writing about how to survive this inevitable collapse in greater detail with historical and Biblical accounts to substantiate my pursuit of truth convictions.