Asked whether he'd been surprised by anything in the war, Franks said he hadn't -- because the war had been planned for "at least a year." The Bush administration has intended to start a war on Iraq for some time, whether the UN Security Council went along with it or not. Now Bush can claim that the French, Germans, Russians, Chinese and anyone else who didn't go along his pre-ordained, God-told-me-to-do-it war are just soft on Saddam. What we're looking at is a clear example of war for profit, not war to stop the production of weapons, not war to suppress an imminent threat. And who's going to profit? There's a host of American companies waiting to bid on the reconstruction of Iraq. Haliburton, you may be surprised to learn, is right at the top of the list. The quid pro quo White House is reaping its profits and by paying off those who helped get them to where they are -- starting an unnecessary war using American-made planes and weapons, then giving first dibs on the reconstruction contracts to the Bush and Cheney's corporate cronies.

On the homefront, the grassroots are motivated and supporting the war! The grassroots as motivated by Clear Channel Communications, that is. You might recognize the name-- they're the the media company that's buying up all the radio stations in the US thanks to the 1996 Federal Communications Commission deregulation of the airwaves. As Paul Krugman reports, Cheer Clan L is headed by a couple of the former governor's appointees to the University of Texas Investment Management Company, called Utimco.

Yes, folks it sure is a war that we can all rally behind, especially for those of us who own stock in Haliburton and Clear Channel.