AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ: WHERE THE AMERICAN EMPIRE DIES

By Frosty Wooldridge
June 23, 2011
NewsWithViews.com

History clearly shows that all empires collapse. They fail. They die. They cease to exist because they overextend themselves in wars, in debt, in borrowing and in loss of a comprehension of reality.

Today, the United States embroils itself in three wars that sap and bleed the life blood out of its people, its financial foundation and its understanding of reality. Who created the war in Iraq and Afghanistan? Was it 9/11? Was it bin Laden who demanded we leave Muslims lands long before 9/11 or was it the Military Industrial Complex that continues to maintain a strangle hold on Congress and the last two presidents?

What on earth gave George Bush the right to attack a sovereign nation like Iraq with no evidence whatsoever of a threat to the United States? How did he maneuver the American people to support such insane violence of his famous, “Shock and Aweâ€