I sat in my conservative evangelical church, maybe the last person to move from a pew.  This was within the week that President Bush announced the attack on Iraq.    I had thought it a silly rumor, not possible, but there it was.

I sat crying until the pastor saw me and asked if I was OK.  I wasn't.  I saw the deaths of thousands about to happen for what reason? It was as obvious to me it was a 'murder for oil' plan.  

The US could care less, (much like we do with the majority of South America and Africa), about the Muslim poor in the Middle East or the atrocities of Saddam. (We certainly ignored genocide in Africa more than once).   Nope, the heart of American foreign policy has always been a locked safe full of gold and it takes Oil to keep it filled.

It's hypocritical for me to blame American foreign policy for abuse, when all Americans, have enjoyed the financial rewards of stripping natural resources from other nations.  I plead guilty of trusting The Party.