War as Stimulus

[Luke]

Consider below article as food for thought.

It focuses on measures taken in USA during WWII to get the war going .. but compare this to what is going on now (or will happen in near future)

Slaughter as 'Simulus' by William Norman Grigg
http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w177.html

Militarism is the one great glamor public-works project upon which a variety of elements in the community can be brought into agreement.

~ John T. Flynn, As We Go Marching (1944).

The Keynesian welfare state is best described as the mild-mannered alter ego of the totalitarian welfare state. The official alchemists responsible for transmuting debt into political power eventually find it impossible to siphon wealth out of the productive class in amounts sufficient to meet the needs of the political class. When this happens, the ruling elite will inevitably turn to bloodshed as a source of economic "stimulus."

David Broder of the Washington Post scandalized the punditocracy by openly reciting this formula in a recent column as a prescription for both the ailing economy and Barack Obama's increasingly enfeebled presidency.

"Look back at FDR and the Great Depression," advised Meet the Press's resident droning dullard. "What finally resolved that economic crisis? World War II.... With strong Republican support in Congress for challenging Iran's ambition to become a nuclear power, [Obama] can spend much of 2011 and 2012 orchestrating a showdown with the mullahs. This will help him politically because the opposition party will be urging him on. And as tensions rise and we accelerate preparations for war, the economy will improve."

"I am not suggesting, of course, that the president incite a war to get reelected," lied Broder immediately after doing exactly that. "But the nation will rally around Obama because Iran is the greatest threat to the world in the young century. If he can confront this threat and contain Iran's nuclear ambitions, he will have made the world safer and may be regarded as one of the most successful presidents in history"

[kcw_one]

A great amount of truth there. History has shown that it is not nations that decide to go to war, but rather their banksters. Think of all the cash strapped arms manufacturers salivating over the prospect of supplying all those bullets and bombs. And let's not forget the financial profiteers who reap massive coin lending the money to bankroll these "wars." Usually the Rothschild clan has funded both sides for double the cash-flow, but since Iran is one of only 3 or 4 countries in the world that has no Roth bank, perhaps this will be an opportunity for them to get a toehold in there, along with the IMF, worldbank and all those other fraudulent crapmongers who will fund the reconstruction in return for open doors to oil and gas rapage. Maybe they'd like to finish what the Brits left behind when the Iranians kicked em out back in the 70's.

What an interesting drama it is, though I doubt they'll be able to succeed as easily with the next fake wars as was done in Iraq and Afghanistan. Time to withdraw consent, wouldn't you say?