America's warmongering spurred by oil

Our government has used the term "terrorist nation" to describe many Middle Eastern countries after the attack on Sept. 11, 2001. These nations have been described as evil and warmongering and often run by dictators that show no respect for their neighbors or the rest of the world. The United States government finds it convenient to pick and choose the dictators and countries that it wants to invade by using the Sept. 11 attacks as a blank check for war.

The "War on Terrorism" is our governments' top priority and the eradication of these terrorists is the main goal. But, our government is the single largest terrorist group in the world and has done more to promote and inspire terrorists around the world than a hundred Osama bin Ladens.

The United States government, prior to the Sept. 11 attacks, had a plan already devised that laid out a U.S. controlled oil pipeline that traveled through many Middle Eastern countries, two of them being Afghanistan and Iraq. This plan would take time to develop, barring a catastrophic event. The Sept. 11 attacks were the catastrophic event that gave Bush's cabinet the catalyst that was needed to start a war for control over the worlds' oil.

Ask yourself this question: if the majority of the hijackers were Saudis then why did the U.S. go into Afghanistan? The obvious answer is that they were hunting for Osama bin Laden, but the real reason the U.S. went into Afghanistan was to protect the oil pipeline they built because the U.S. backed Taliban could not.

While the United States was involved in Afghanistan, sucking billions of dollars out of our already massive deficit, they decided to go into Iraq because Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction he could use against us. But continuous pre-war searches for these weapons came up empty and the government turned to the excuse of saving the Iraqi people. Why didn't we save the Kurds when Saddam was gassing women and children or when he brutally destroyed the Shiia uprisings in southern Iraq? We promoted these revolts then betrayed the Shiites by letting Saddam keep his air force intact so that he could crush upheavals. The answer to these questions is oil.

We live in a world of rapidly diminishing natural resources. The most important resource is oil. Whoever controls the oil, controls the world. Why would any sane government start a war on two fronts?

Much like Vietnam, our soldiers have no real enemy to fight; they are only there to keep the peace until our government realizes that peace cannot be achieved with war and decides to declare victory and remove the soldiers without actually accomplishing anything.

While our friends and family members die under the hot desert sun of Iraq and Afghanistan in a vain attempt to control the uncontrollable, our president and his warmongering staff are plotting the next nation that they want to terrorize into submission.

Our government has suspended many articles in the Bill of Rights through the Patriot Act. It has instituted a preemptive strike policy that goes against a United Nations charter that was created specifically to stop Hitler's acts in World War II from ever happening again and we have forsaken our oldest allies in the quest for oil. Our own president and his cabinet are war criminals. We have become what we hate the most; terrorists. We terrorize the world in search of oil, and we won't stop until its all ours.

Daniel Bracke is a second year English major at CSULB.