Calling For Investigations

On the floor of the Senate yesterday (3/30/09), Senator Byron Dorgan called for a select committee in the Senate to investigate the current financial crisis in which individuals made billions while the taxpayer was left funding a bailout in the trillions. He pointed out that in order to prevent this from happening again, we must understand its core and root cause. There could well be financial crimes involved which should be prosecuted.

The same can be said of the activities which led us into the $3 trillion unnecessary war with Iraq. An investigation is crucial to prevent this from happening again. Even as we speak, The Economist (3/28/09) reports, President Obama "is being badgered by fiercely pro-Israeli groups" to give the green light for an Israeli attack against Iran.

Yet Defense Secretary Gates, appearing 3/29/09 on Fox News Sunday, stated that there is no evidence that Iran can make a nuclear bomb, which requires highly enriched uranium. They do have enough low-enriched uranium (suitable for fuel), which could be further enriched, but there is no evidence that they are able to do this. The IAEA is there, and "we do not believe they are enriching beyond a low level."

Due to our biased support for Israel, her heinous actions invariably boomerang back on us, as in 9/11. Speaking of core and root causes, Israel's illegal oppressive occupations are the underlying cause of anti-American terrorism. Also, the vast sums of money and manpower necessary to combat this terrorism has resulted in the diversion of funds and resources of the FBI, etc., from other important activities such as the investigation of financial crime, as reported in The New York Times 3/26/09. This means a a decrease in our ability to combat corporate and financial fraud, including money laundering, bank, mortgage and securities fraud, etc. All this has been very convenient for the looters of the financial system.

The robber barons who looted our financial system and the Israel Lobby neocons who concocted the false intelligence to lie us into war have one important thing in common. They couldn't care less about the United States of America, its values or its future. We desperately need these investigations now.