War is business

The Dutch government gave political support to the American/British invasion in Iraq in 2003. Was this invasion based on the battle against international terrorism or because Saddam Hussein was such a terrible dictator and had weapons of mass destruction? Or was this invasion based on completely different interests?

Bush is known as the President who started the 'war on terror' in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Dick Cheney was vice-President during both Bush-administrations. Before the invasion of Iraq, Cheney was CEO of Halliburton, a big supplying company in the energy industry. This organization received numerous governmental contracts in Iraq. Cheney's wife is a former board member of Lockheed and his son-in-law worked as a lobbyist for Lockheed. Lockheed produces warplanes.

In the Netherlands it was Prince Bernhard who had his interest in warfare, due to his memberships of the 'Sturmabteilung' of the Nazi Party in Germany and his position as inspector-general of the Dutch battle forces. This interest became clear when he accepted more than one million dollar in bribes from Lockheed to force the Dutch government to buy planes that were produced by Lockheed.

Decisions about such invasions aren't only being taken by democratic ways, but there's also negotiation about it in the Bilderberg conferences. These are secret meetings, attended by those who lead our world, both political and economical. Attendants are people like Bush, Rumsfeld, top bankers like Rockefeller, and several influential people from multinationals like Shell. Examples of Dutch attendants are former prime-minister Balkenende, Queen Beatrix and Prince Bernhard. Accidentally, Prince Bernhard has been chairman of these Bilderberg meetings for more several decades.

The 'war on terror' is today being used in the United States to increase the power of the federal government on its citizens. In 2003, the Patriot Act was introduced as an act against terror. It gave the federal government access to telephone data, email data and banking data. The in Europe worshipped Obama continued this Patriot Act and intensified the war in Afghanistan by sending 30.000 extra soldiers.

That the hunderds of thousands of innocent citizens that got killed and the 6000 soldiers that returned home in a bodybag, where not a reason to withdraw troops, shows how enormous the interests of this war are by those in Power in Washington en The Hague. A popular verb among soldiers and conservatives is 'freedom is not free'. That is correct: our freedom is being threatened by those who have an interest in warfare. It is time that WikiLeaks shows us the interest of all those in power who supported the invasion, so that we the people can judge it. Or do you really believe that Osama is still in Afghanistan?