War Contractor Sues Victims' Families

You won't believe this story until you read it, so read it for yourself. I thought that was pretty disgusting, personally. Did you know that, once upon a time, war profiteering was illegal? Difficult to imagine today, isn't it? Under the Truman approach, during wartime the government set prices and wages and banned military contractors from profiting. Pretty unimaginable today, isn't it? Yet the WWII era is recalled by those who lived through it (at least on the civilian side) nostalgically. It was a cause people were willing to sacrifice a few conveniences for. Perhaps that might have something to do with the fact that, for the U.S., WWII was a war for self-defense, not a war of aggression. There was a genuine spirit of cooperation for the war effort that clearly does not exist today. My grandmother lived through that era and has told me about these things from her perspective. She and I discussed the then-prospective invasion of Iraq back in December of 2002 and both of us opposed it.

Speaking of the Iraq War, you may be interested to know that the puppet government of Iraq has recently put out a warrant for the arrest of oil union leaders for calling a strike.