the US is borrowing 2 billion a day from the rest of the world to keep its economy afloat. Mostly from China. Everyone has a vested interest in helping the US economy, because the US owes everyone bucket loads of money. If the US economy goes under, everyone stands to lose. But we must give US consumers every increasing amounts of imported product to buy...to keep the economy from collapsing, so the deficit will always grow.
With that being said, there is still a massive opportunity to make money from war, for the larger US corporations. Most of which give huge amounts of money to keep republicans in power. So the guv'ment gives them big contracts to feed soldiers abroad, rebuild nations after they have been demolished by weapons built by other corporations, rebuild oil pipelines, syphon oil (illegally), you name it. All in the name of giving the gift of peace. You see many media stories of happy Iraqi's these days? Wonder why?
Frankly I am amazed that anyone believed the bullshit the president said about going to war, given that no-one else outside the US supported his bullshit reasoning.
Media is the reason that war is executed. Media gives attention (and diverts it from other more pressing issues domestically), and media glorifies the war (imbedding journalists within the theatre of war). Media makes the war justified, because the US media is owned by government allies. If you see nothing but glorification of the war "effort" you might eventually be braindead enough to believe that you live in the greatest nation under god, delivery "peace" bomb by dirty bomb.
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