U.S. government: a "source of evil"
Why Afghanistan? "It was about the Taliban being very, very bad people and that they treated women very badly, you see." Well, that's not what it was about. What it was really about: an imperial grab for energy resources.

"The Taliban -- whom the US installed at the time of the Russian occupation -- were getting too flaky and because Unocal, the California corporation, had made a deal with the Taliban for a pipeline to get the Caspian-area oil, which is the richest oil reserve on Earth. They wanted to get that oil by pipeline through Afghanistan to Pakistan to Karachi and from there to ship it off to China, which would be enormously profitable. Whichever big company could cash in would make a fortune. And you'll see that all these companies go back to Bush or Cheney or to Rumsfeld or someone else on the Gas and Oil Junta, which, along with the Pentagon, governs the United States."

"After 9/11 the country was really shocked and terrified. Bush does a little war dance and talks about evil axis and all the countries he's going to go after. And how long it is all going to take, he says with a happy smile, because it means billions and trillions for the Pentagon and for his oil friends. And it means curtailing our liberties, so this is all very thrilling for him. He's right out there reacting, bombing Afghanistan. Well, he might as well have been bombing Denmark. Denmark had nothing to do with 9/11. And neither did Afghanistan."

(It might as well have been Michael Moore.. Gore Vidal.)

Real success in Iraq, the American way: "I like grease and I need the weight". Believe it or not, the former Saddam International Airport now houses Iraq's first Burger King! (Courrier International, Washington Post)

U.S. Republican presidents of the past 50 years had an average IQ of 115.5, with President Nixon having the highest IQ, at 155. President G. W. Bush was rated the lowest of all the Republicans with an IQ of 91.

Democrat presidents had IQs with an average of 156, with President Clinton having the highest IQ, at 182. President Lyndon B. Johnson was rated the lowest of all the Democrats with an IQ of 126.

(Lovenstein Institute think tank)