The Ideal War

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American War Criminals	How You Know Bush Lied about WMDs	Do Enlist
Disrespecting American Soldiers	Iraq War Motives	The Coming Draft
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Body Counts	Republicans Pretend Not To Notice	War Is A Racket
Defense Science Board	Saddam Hussein	Wounds by Dr. Norman Bethune
Atrocities	Future	How Will The Iraq War End?
Tortures	Mind Your Own Business!	Conclusions

The Ideal War

Let’s say you invested heavily in Halliburton, or were someone like Cheney who gets residuals from Halliburton based on its profitability, or a Repubilcan politician (e.g. McCain) who gets large amounts of contributions/cash from Halliburton (a major military contractor), perhaps indirectly or under the table.

What would be your idea of an idea war?

The war must never end. If it ends, the profits trail off. Granted, you can start another war, but that causes an interruption in the flow cash from the taxpayers.
The war must be steady. It must neither drastically escalate or deescalate. You want a stable war that drifts into the background of public consciousness. You want them to pay for it, and be largely unaware of it. Sudden changes make people start looking at the expenditures.
You don’t want large numbers of American causalities. These tend to make people want to get out of wars. So pick on an enemy that can’t fight back, that has no military at all.
You want an enemy that generates little sympathy. Even children and grandmothers killed should not bother the average American conscience. Play on religious prejudice, racism and xenophobia to carefully select a foe. Non-white, non-Christian victims are clearly preferable. The less the public know about the foe, the easier to demonise them.
The war must be expensive, gradually increasing in expense, but not so quickly as to trigger a backlash.
The war must be safe. The enemy must have no means to attack the continental USA or the factories of the “defence” industry.
Ideally the climate should be pleasant to help attract young men who want a little adventure. Good lighting also helps the photography to sell the war. A war in the arctic over oil would be hard to sell to the average submoron enlistee.

Do you notice how closely the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq come to the ideal?

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