Even at the time, it was clear that we were entering under a false pretext. And it is obvious that many are hungering for more war with Iraq, with Russia, with whomever we can egg into a fight. For the sake of the fight--or, more correctly, for the sake of the money that goes flying into the coffers of the MIC, the oil companies, etc.

Wars, like depressions, are simply those times when money flows back to its natural owners, to paraphrase Andrew Mellon, Herbert Hoover's Sec of Treasury in about 1931.