Bush decided to invade Iraq because American intelligence assigned a high probability to the chance that Saddam possessed either chemical or biological weapons. However, he presented this guesstimate as fact. That was, of course, a lie. There also lurked the uncomfortable feeling that Saddam looked on America as his enemy.

The great fear of the framers of the Constitution of the United States was that economic power would have undue influence upon the governance of the people. They relied upon the checks and balances inherent in the separation of powers to keep this inevitable influence somewhat curbed. They didn't foresee the system of political parties that would dominate all branches of government, that would demand loyalty to party supercede loyalty to the nation.

Conventional wisdom seems to iterate everything changed after 9/11, but the world has not changed so much.

This is not the first time
a war was begun with a lie.
This is not the first time
children of the less priviliged have gone to die for the comfort of those more priviliged.
This is not the first time
war's profiteers have been its mongers.
This is not the first time
war's destructiveness has been presented as progress.
This is not the first time
a nation has overburdened itself with debt to fight a needless war.
This is not the first time
an empire has been driven into declination by sheer stupidity.
This is not the first time
hubris has gotten its comeuppance.
This is not the first time
a war of plunder has been disguised as altruism.
This is not the first time
religion has led to communal murder, and communal murder in retaliation ad nauseam.
Nor is this the first time
man has forgotten, has failed to learn from history that history forgotten is a peril of itself.

O you corporate popes,
I want my America back.
O my fellow citizens,
let us not surrender in the fight to take her back.

Top Ten Reasons to Support Bush

10. You're due to inherit 20,000 shares of Exxon and Halliburton.
    
9.  You spent forty grand on survivalist gear and you hate to see it go to waste.
   
8.  You've been appointed to the board of Exxon or Halliburton or Bechtel or General Dynamics or Raytheon or NorthropGrumman or....
   
7.  You joined the National Guard in August 2001 but you live in Texas (chances a Texas guardsman is in Iraq, one in thirty; chances for a New York guardsman, one in four).
   
6.  You always wanted to fink on your neighbor.
   
5.  The ownership society will be truly idyllic, replete with gardeners, valets, maids, and nannies; and the South Forty ripe with cotton, and the hands grateful for their keep, and you just love them Negroes like dey was in "Porgy and Bess".
   
4.  You've never been to a library anyway.
   
3.  You're past draft age.
   
2.  You think Jesus knows your name and address, but He's waiting for the Apocalypse.
   

And the number one reason for supporting George W. Bush -

You're a Saudi royal.