It seems only a dream today 04/-/05. Let me show you a letter that I sent to a local editor a few months ago, to give you a brief look at where I’m coming from.

The letter was never printed.

Back to Iraq, are the orders for my Grandson and I don’t like it! The atrocities that are so commonplace around the world today would not be my choice. It is our trusted leaders, both Political and Religious that have brought us here where we are today and we for allowing it because of the trust in our heart. It is time to face some plain truths folks,

#1. There is no humanitarian benefit or reason for war. I don’t think we have done ourselves or the Iraqi people any favors; in fact most of them hate us for our efforts. Surely not for the sake of our future do we send our children off into harms way to kill or be killed, our children are our future.

#2 to find answers, we must look for reasons. Why has this happened? Why do so many people around the world hate us? If it were only jealousy there would be some admiration. More likely they see us as the bad guys. Because along with the democracy and good will that we bring, the package also includes the curse of OPEC, and the yielding of their oil over to a handful of shameless businessmen! Long ago the USA yielded exclusive rights of all imports and exports over to OPEC. The Energy Policy denies the American People the right of freedom to choose where we buy our oil and gas. Because oil is the foundation of our economy, it also has allowed OPEC to extract our American Dream. I would not vote for OPEC.

#3. We must expose the “my God is better than your God so that makes me better than you, game”! Come on folks, it’s literally killing us! There is no Holy War, there is nothing Holy about war! There is only one God but we human beings will see Him or Her in as many different ways as there are people around the world. For every human being on this earth, there is a different image of God. And each has one main commonality, each is the ONLY proper image and most others are WRONG! Doesn’t this say something? If your God condones the heinous atrocities that are occurring around the world today, then you are bowing to a false God of your own choosing! It is we Human beings who are to blame and not God for our current and future events. We simply have to grow up and face the truth; we cannot blame nor use God as an excuse for our crimes against humanity, period! If we are ever to achieve peace again we must learn to be fair to each other, because it is greed that breeds resentment and distrust. I believe God trusts us to see this and work this out.

#4. We must expose and deny the real agenda of a hand full of mega greedy rich who are actually pulling the strings, and leading this world to the brink of destruction! This one is easy folks, just follow the money trail. Who is pumping the Iraq oil now? Iraq with the world’s largest oil reserves was competition for OPEC, because their “black market oil”, (a term used for anything outside of OPEC control) only sells for FIVE CENTS A GALLON TODAY! Hello….

#5. The answer is simply to convince our leaders to work for the good of the people and change the Energy Policy to allow the Arab world to compete on the open market with OPEC. The American people will benefit from much lower fuel prices and a restored economy and the rest of the world will see us once again as the good guys and I can take my Grandson fishing.

I lived through the fifties when the American Dream meant a working man with an average job could support his family, afford a new home, a brand new 57 Chevy convertible, and have money left over on the weekend to go fishing. I know most folks will find that hard to imagine right now, but it is just as true as the fact that gas was less that thirty cents a gallon. I know we can all say “oh ya so what”? The fact is our economy is based totally on our income verses our costs. And oil covers everything that we do in America. At every turn there is an energy cost for every product and move we make. When oil goes up all of our costs go up, but maybe not our wages and our income. The working taxpayers trust our leaders to protect us from this exact crime. Isn’t it called monopoly, when you fix prices, and collude, and cheat, and lie, and take unfair advantage, and corruption when our leaders are in on the oil shortage scam and watch as it strangles our nation and half of the world, and they turn away obviously afraid to even whisper about our energy policy? It is possible that I am wrong, I wish I was, but I’m afraid there are a few trusted leaders out there who hold our fate in their hands, and they are handing it over to some who have proven their unimaginable selfish greed