On the BBC news they've been talking about how the American government has cut off France, Germany and Russia from any contracts in Iraq for 'security reasons'. This is unprecedented; the only countries that have ever been barred from contracts for this reasons have been countries like Iran and Libya for harboring terrorism and whatnot. The US is barring three huge first world countries because they refused to participate in the war of unilateral aggression with Iraq. In my eyes this seems to proove pretty conclusively that the government was doing this for profit. Do we really have to accept this kind of fascism? It scares me to death. It reminds me of an old Dead Kennedys lyric from 'When Ya Get Drafted':
There's easy money, easy jobs
Especially when you build the bombs
That blow big cities off the map
Just guess who profits when we build 'em back up?
Yeah, what Big Business wants Big Business gets - it wants a war.