US Goes To War To Make Money, Not Save Lives – American Peace Activist

An American peace activist has claimed that the wars and internal chaos in other countries around the world were purposely concocted by the United States so it can profit from the ultra-modern arms and weapons it makes which the stricken-nations need to buy to defend themselves.

Washington recently donated 250 mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles (MRAPs) to the Iraqi Army so it can effectively battle the radical ISIS terrorists. But Joe Iosbaker, an American political commentator and a leader of the United National Antiwar Committee, in an interview with Press TV on Wednesday, said hardly will the U.S. go into war to portray DC Comics superhero Superman. "The US doesn't go to war to protect lives, it goes to war for profit," he said.

Joachim Hagopian, a West Point graduate and former U.S. Army officer, seemed to agree with Iosbaker's observations. In his article published on Global Research, Hagopian claimed the ISIS is just a front being used by the U.S. so it can establish a permanent military base in Iraq. "Like al Qaeda in the 1990's Balkans, ISIS is the latest US mercenary terror on the ground fighting the US proxy war in Syria against Bashir al Assad's forces," Hagopian said. He added that when ISIS invaded Iraq seven months ago, it became the perfect excuse to deploy once again US troops on the ground in Iraq. Clearly, the ISIS is an ally to the US government in both Iraq and Syria, he further stressed.

CIA had consistently denied any relations with the ISIS. In fact, it had even created a parody account on Twitter called @ISIS_fake to get back at allegations and conspiracy theorists. But while Twitter is "the new battleground for the war on terror," and the parody account its tool, it failed to get the number of followers it wanted. CIA director John Brennan, quoted by portal clickhole.com, said posts rarely got retweeted, or even favourited, "which can be really discouraging." A check at the Twitter account revealed its last post was made on Oct 27, 2014. Followers were a dismal 5.060.

Iosbaker reminded Press TV that it was the U.S. wars and occupation that had destroyed Iraq. He said the U.S. is just using the ISIS for leverage, and wants the world to believe that this particular Iraq war "is different than the previous two, this one [they] are fighting ISIS, which attack Iraq in June," he noted.

The U.S. has been lashing airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq since August 2014, and has spent more than US$1 billion in the process. However, it is believed such air missions hardly prevented the radical Islamist's advances in parts of Syria and in western Iraq. Some analysts have said the strikes weren't meant to help the country survive its internal struggles, but more to destroy the Arab countries' infrastructures. Iosbaker hinted the U.S. has to recover what it has spent on the airstrikes by creating scenarios that would create the effective desire to warrant its manufactured arms and weapons by the countries in need.

The intention was to launch "a fake war" against ISIS "long enough to regain a military foothold" in the country while following through with the "overall longtime agenda to thoroughly destabilize the entire region," Hagopian said. This was clearly evident when both Israeli and U.S. military airstrikes targeted Syria's infrastructure, taking out oil refineries and food storage silos, hurting the Syrian people in the process, but not the supposed enemy ISIS, he said.

If the U.S. truly wanted to defeat ISIS, with its technological capacity and precision as the world's most powerful killing machine, Hagopian said, it could have easily located and destroyed the ISIS forces within a month. Iosbaker warned Washington may have a new cover and a new issue to use to justify its going into war, but all these will not end well both for the people of Iraq nor of the U.S.

"All this of course conflict and violence is just what the oligarchs have ordered, using their age old winning formula of divide and conquer, always to blind people into hating and blaming other groups as scapegoats," Hagopian said. "The latest current events sweeping the headlines are part of the banking cabal's design to create war, destabilize and destroy nations and economies and impoverish, kill and reduce the global population."