Bush
and Co. out for the green
Karl
Kalman
Bush
Sr. started the war with Iraq that killed
hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and totally
destroyed their infrastructure; Iraqi cities
did not have any clean water supply or sewage.
The last time this happened in Iraq the
horrifying destruction was brought on by
the Mongol Empire. Bush Sr. then put Iraq
under the strongest sanctions any country
has ever endured, and they have continued
for the last decade. Iraq became the largest
concentration camp in the world, with over
a million children dying as a result of
the sanctions. And Iraq was such an immediate
threat that we had to attack them?
Bush
Jr., our current commander in chief, has
once again opened the doors of war in America.
Yes, Hussein was an evil dictator that massacred
many people, but the Bushes don't care.
They got what they wanted from the Gulf
War: Iraq to pull out of Kuwait and Saddam
to retain power so that the Iraqi people
would not nationalize their oil. Saddam
put down the uprising that Bush Sr. had
promoted, and the media made Hussein out
as the evil dictator.
I'm
a business major at Cal State Long Beach
and they don't teach us about abortion or
environmental protection, but about how
to make a profit. We learn that there is
a sucker born every minute, and our job
is to suck every possible penny out of him
or her.
When
Sept. 11 happened, the Republicans only
though was to see how to make a profit out
of it. They decided they were going to rebuild
Afghanistan, which is a useless desert land,
and when the American people feel good about
rebuilding a foreign nation, we're going
to attack Iraq and take their oil.
It
is a well-known and widely accepted fact
that during wartime, news companies and
governmental representatives fuse their
voices together into one univocal beam of
support for the national military objective.
What's more American than giving the freedom
of the press only to those who own a press?
For those who still listen and believe politicians
who give speeches or give press interviews
still sleep in their own feces of ignorance.
Have we forgotten how many times the government
has lied to us and how these lies become
more complex and sophisticated every time?
Karl
Kalman is a business finance major at Cal
State Long Beach.
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