''What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States.''--U.S. Senator John F. Kerry

Timothy Shire, editor of Ensign, has introduced my article "Bush's illegitimate war against Iraq: a distraction to camouflage the connections Bush & Bin Laden & Carlyle" with these words:

"It seems that the picture of what is happening is coming together as there is a convergence as stories unfold revealing solid financial ties between the military complex, the so-call free market system and the unseemly behaviour of the leadership of the United States of America."

As I re-read Timothy's words I am thinking about the meaning of the words he has been using, 'convergence' and 'ties', as to understand there is a current fundamental truth in the association or correlation between the military complex, the free-market and the unseemly behaviour of the United States of America. For me this is the truth. But I challenge the veracity of this truth from anybody else's by setting forward the following questions:

• Would it be true that if you have an American war economy there would be a propensity to wage wars rather than peace? Just think about the corporative leaders of the military complex who would be making money by waging wars, and think of employees of any industry who would have their retirement savings invested in the military complex.
• Would it be true that if you have an American war economy there would be the need of the present American Free Market to rebuild what has been destroyed by American wars? Just think about the way the rebuilding of the Iraqi economic infrastructure is being planned.
• Would it be true that if you have an American war economy there would be the need of an American political leadership which would be advertising the liberation of people all over the world by waging wars? Just think about the present liberation of the Iraqi people.
• Would it be true that if you have an American war economy there would be the need to have the protection of God? Just think about born again Christian Bush and his pre-planned crusade against Iraq.

References

Past pertinent articles published in Ensign

Soros, George Bush's inflated sense of supremacy (PDF) March 12, 2003 Financial Times http://www.ftlcomm.com:16080/ensign/desantisArticles/2002_700/desantis781/sorosFinancialTimes.pdf

Johnson, Glen Kerry says US needs its own 'regime change' (PDF) April 3, 2003 Boston Globe http://www.ftlcomm.com:16080/ensign/desantisArticles/2002_700/desantis781/sorosFinancialTimes.pdf

Wayne, Leslie Elder Bush in Big G.O.P. Cast Toiling for Top Equity Firm (PDF) March 5, 2001 The New York Times http://www.ftlcomm.com:16080/ensign/desantisArticles/2002_700/desantis781/topEquity.pdf

The Associated Press Cheney's Ex-Firm In Stealth Mode (PDF) April 1, 2003 http://www.ftlcomm.com:16080/ensign/desantisArticles/2002_700/desantis781/cheneyCBS.pdf

Nimmo, Kurt The Committee for the Liberation of Iraq: PR Spinning the Bush Doctrine November 19, 2002 CounterPunch, http://www.globalpolicy.org/ngos/credib/2002/1119bush.htm

Fournier, Ron Bush Urges Prayer During 'Testing Time' February 6, 2003 The Associated Press http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A35236-2003Feb6&notFound=true

Paine, Tom On Bush, Greed and God's Ministers: John Kenneth Galbraith Speaks Out April 4, 2003 http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/7544