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We¢ve lost our moral compass: The contrast between today¢s leaders and the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 shocks our conscience. Today war greed trumps morals. During the Revolutionary War our leaders risked their lives and fortunes; many lost both.

Today it¢s the opposite: Too often our leaders¢ main goal is not public service but a ticket to building a personal fortune in the new “America¢s Outrageous War Economy,” often by simply becoming a high-priced lobbyist.

Ultimately, the price of our greed may be the fulfillment of Kevin Phillips¢ warning in “Wealth and Democracy:” “Most great nations, at the peak of their economic power, become arrogant and wage great world wars at great cost, wasting vast resources, taking on huge debt, and ultimately burning themselves out.”

But wait, you ask: Isn¢t our $1.4 trillion war budget essential for “national defense” and “homeland security?” Don¢t we have to protect ourselves?

Sorry folks, but our leaders have degraded those honored principles to advertising slogans. They¢re little more than flag-waving excuses used by neocon war hawks to disguise the buildup of private fortunes in “America¢s Outrageous War Economy.”

America may be a ticking time bomb, but we are threatened more by enemies within than external terrorists, by ideological fanatics on the left and the right. Most of all, we are under attack by our elected leaders who are motivated more by pure greed than ideology. They terrorize us, brainwashing us into passively letting them steal our money to finance “America¢s Outrageous War Economy,” the ultimate “black hole” of corruption and trickle-up economics.

You think I¢m kidding? I¢m maybe too harsh? Sorry but others are far more brutal. Listen to the ideologies and realities eating at America¢s soul.

How powerful is the Pentagon¢s war machine? Trillions in dollars. But worse yet: Their mindset is now locked deep in our DNA, in our collective conscience, in America¢s soul. Our love of war is enshrined in the writings of neocon war hawks like Norman Podoretz, who warns the Iraq War was the launching of “World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism,” a reminder that we could be occupying Iraq for a hundred years. His WW IV also reminded us of the coming apocalyptic end-of-days “war of civilizations” predicted by religious leaders in both Christian and Islamic worlds two years ago.

In contrast, this ideology has been challenged in works like Craig Unger¢s “American Armageddon: How the Delusions of the Neoconservatives and the Christian Right Triggered the Descent of America — and Still Imperil Our Future.”

Unfortunately, neither threat can be dismissed as “all in our minds” nor as merely ideological rhetoric. Trillions of tax dollars are in fact being spent to keep the Pentagon war machine aggressively planning and expanding wars decades in advance, including spending billions on propaganda brainwashing naïve Americans into co-signing “America¢s Outrageous War Economy.” Yes, they really love war, but that “love” is toxic for America¢s soul.

Read Nobel Economist Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard professor Linda Bilmes¢ “$3 Trillion War.” They show how our government¢s deceitful leaders are secretly hiding the real long-term costs of the Iraq War, which was originally sold to the American taxpayer with a $50 billion price tag and funded out of oil revenues.

But add in all the lifetime veterans¢ health benefits, equipment placement costs, increased homeland security and interest on new federal debt, and suddenly taxpayers got a $3 trillion war tab!

Read Portfolio magazine¢s special report “The Pentagon¢s $1 Trillion Problem.” The Pentagon¢s 2007 budget of $440 billion included $16 billion to operate and upgrade its financial system. Unfortunately “the defense department has spent billions to fix its antiquated financial systems [but] still has no idea where its money goes.”

And it gets worse: Back “in 2000, Defense¢s inspector general told Congress that his auditors stopped counting after finding $2.3 trillion in unsupported entries.” Yikes, our war machine has no records for $2.3 trillion! How can we trust anything they say?

For decades Washington has been waving that “national defense” flag, to force the public into supporting “America¢s Outrageous War Economy.” Read John Alic¢s “Trillions for Military Technology: How the Pentagon Innovates and Why It Costs So Much.”

A former Congressional Office of Technology Assessment staffer, he explains why weapon systems cost the Pentagon so much, “why it takes decades to get them into production even as innovation in the civilian economy becomes ever more frenetic and why some of those weapons don¢t work very well despite expenditures of many billions of dollars,” and how “the internal politics of the armed services make weapons acquisition almost unmanageable.” Yes, the Pentagon wastes trillions planning its wars well in advance.

Comments? Tell us: What will it take to wake up America, get citizens, investors, anybody mad at “America¢s Outrageous War Economy?”

Why don¢t you rebel? Will the outrage come too late … after this massive war bubble explodes in our faces?