The New World

Some-one tells you that they’re “going to the ‘New World’; A land so beautiful, huge, rich and full of promises that millions flock there!” What do you say? Do you say, “I’d watch your step there, they’re likely to come back to this country and kill millions of our citizens, drive us from our homes and destroy our villages all for the sake of oil”? Or do you say, “Can I come too?”

For so long, we were told that America was the dream land; the place where no-one was discriminated against, no-one was lower than some-one else because everyone got everything they had ever dreamed of.
However, suddenly the storm clouds have burst and the bright, gaudy colours of those oh-so-infamous stars and stripes are beginning to run. The real American colours are showing through; the black of the government’s heart, the red of the blood of the Plains Indians, killed to make the wonderful theme park of deception and most of all, the slick rainbow sheen that taints the mind of every powerful American there is. Oil.

To any ‘high-up’ American, Iraq sounds like hell. Slums stretched across its barren waste-lands, working day in, day out for pittance, eating when you can as opposed to when you feel like it. But among all this debris of a country lies a glittering oasis; oil. Iraq’s main source of income is their oil companies, making millions a year in profit. America has everything; power over nearly the entire world, huge armies at its disposal, a government so corrupt that it can do anything and blackmail its way out of it, and yet it still wants what it can’t have. It wants ultimate power. Power that would mean it had the entire world under its thumb. You’ve seen Aladdin, and you know how mad Jafar went on his search for power? Imagine that, and then add into the equation a country with endless amount of money at its disposal, an army so patriotic that it is willing to bulldoze countries in its name and a leader that will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Scary dream, yes? About six years ago, 28,221,180 Iraqis woke up to that dream. They woke up to being told that they were about to be invaded by the army of the Promised Land. Six years later and the nightmares are still refusing to stop. George Bush managed to kill 1,411,700 individuals on his quest to power. 100,000 of them were his own citizens; people who had gone into that war because he told them it was the right thing to do, people who put their absolute and utter trust in his word, people who died for believing their leader.

Then there is Africa; another place that Americans shudder at the sound of. This time there’s no oasis, no benefit from helping apart from the social acceptance, but who needs that when you have nuclear bombs aimed at their country? Africa contains 58 separate countries, and has $200 billion worth of debt. So far ‘The New World’ has spent $1 trillion on this war. Correct me if I’m wrong but surely there is oil somewhere in Africa? Surely by paying off the debt of these 58 countries there would be a lot more people willing to help them find oil than by destroying the land that contains what they want? By creating this war they are not only murdering civilians in cold blood, but doing it somewhat unnecessarily and at more expense than it would be to help a continent out of its debt and get what it wanted in return! Are there no good Samaritans in the USA?