President George W. Bush waged war against a sovereign
nation against the intent of the U.N. Charter to prevent unprovoked attacks. In
the eyes of the world, it is an illegal war, and the United States is
responsible for ending it. To regain the power we lost, we must undo the
damage we did there.
The Iraq War evolved not as a war, but a genocide. The
conflict started years before with President George H.W. Bush and the Gulf War.
That was the precursor for his son, George W. Bush, to judge Saddam Hussein to
be “Axis of Evil,” and to take action against him with the preemptive strike.
The
judgment against Saddam Hussein was an act of revenge, which drew in the
Coalition nations, who
were offered lucrative contracts. That
drew in the world leaders to weave an illusion to maintain their power base, declaring
they are allies in the War on Terror. That brought in the terrorists, which
justified the war. With acts of revenge, all the parties appear to have the
same goal, which was the attack on Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but the revenge is
just a means to an end, and in fact, none have the same goal, and work to
undermine the ones who brought them in.
The ripples of crises
that flowed out from the conflict drew every person on the planet in some way
into the crisis. The games are oppressive to the people. The power game of regime change was tolerated for a while, but once it was played on an innocent man—Saddam Hussein was attempting to comply with U.S. sanction—the game reached its ultimate conclusion, which was the exact opposite result. President Bush lost power, started a civil war and no one gained control of Iraq’s oil reserves.
The United States must start the process to end the conflict by offering to all the people on the planet what they
lack, which is the right to live our lives without interference. To regain our power base, we must stand on the seven
principles of equality, liberty, freedom, compassion, abundance, capacity and
tolerance. How this is done is by supporting the creation of the international
government, making all nations equal and guaranteeing to every person on the
planet the same rights every American is guaranteed under our Constitution.