  A fascinating urlLink article on how big money has influenced the Iraq war and politics in Washington under the Bush administration.
The rich get richer. The poor either get poorer or killed in a rich man's war. "[T]he men behind the Carlyle Group drift through Washington like familiar ghosts, profiteering off the carnage of Bush's disastrous crusades, untroubled by any thought of congressional investigation or criminal prosecution, firm in the knowledge that the worse things get for the people of the world, the less secure and more gripped by fear the citizens their own country become, the more millions they will reap for themselves. Perpetual war means perpetual profits. " Also, check out the excellent on-line magazine that published this piece: urlLink www.counterpunch.org . 
