What we are seeing in Burma

Is the Bush policy of "spreading freedom" as the hollow excuse that it always was. We were never in Iraq to promote freedom. Neither were we invading Iraq "to topple a brutal dictator" as is commonly claimed.
When we see what happens in Burma and Darfur and the complacency of Bush and the neo-con war machine we can't accept that it was for the noble cause of humanitarian relief. Looking at the US reactions to Burma we have to accept that control of oil, the cash giveaway to corporate interests and the privatization of the military are the only real reasons we invaded Iraq.

I am not one to call for military action but the Burmese need our help. So do the people in Darfur. So have a lot of people who didn't happen to live next to oil reserves. Yet we sit this one out. Noble of us. I think we are scared of China. I think Bush is jealous and has a lot of respect for the power that the Burmese government has over its' people.

Still it shows us that it was never about freedom. It was always about money.