Any person or state who gets in the way of the American Empire, beware!

This debate is absurd not simply because Iraq is not a threat but because our imperial mafia know that Iraq is not a threat.

Our leaders have been telling us one story after another about why Iraq is a threat, a nuclear threat, a terrorist state, tied to al Qa'ida - only to have each story amount to nothing. They told us for a long time that Iraq must agree to having the weapons inspectors back in, and when it agreed to this they said "No, no, that isn't good enough". And now that the inspectors can't find any prohibited weapons, is that good news for our peace-loving government leaders? Of course not. They hate it.

Does this sudden urgency of fighting a war in the absence of a fight make sense? It does, I suggest, only if you understand that this is not about Saddam Hussein but about ambitious US leaders with Iraq and its oil in their sights, needing a pretext to satisfy gullible people. Oil would not be the only reason for taking over Iraq. The country would be opened up for globalisation and the multinationals would march in and privatise everything in sight, not to mention the further benefit of disabling Israel's arch enemy.

In conclusion, I offer up two laws of politics, courtesy of the Watergate scandal of the 70s:-

"No matter how paranoid you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine".

and

"Don't believe anything until it's been officially denied".

Both laws are still on the books.