When Fantasy Faces Reality:

With all the fuss about hired guns cutting up in Iraq, it's easy to overlook the obvious. Nixononian politics taught us above all else to "follow the money." Paul Krugman puts the Blackwater et al affair into perspective in his Op-Ed piece today in The New York Times.

What nobody seems to want to talk about is the Bush party's plans to privatize the world. There was the plot to sell out the Social Security System to Wall Street speculators, the attempt to do away with public education, the privatization of America's prisons, and to fight America's wars with mercenaries.

The latest Blackwater incident isn't an isolated occurrence, it's a symptom of the attempt by the very rich to further exploit all of the rest of us. These are the same forces that have led us into the current housing crisis, by the way. The same folks who oversaw the failure to come to the aid of New Orleans because they couldn't figure out a way to exploit it for their own profit. The same people who demand that you go into debt to pay for a war about which they lied when they attempted to justify it and further lied when they promised the could pay for the war with oil money.