But what would happen if other nations preemptively discovered that the world's greatest economy, the frontrunner of capitalism, is a house of cards built on fraud? How many friendly nations would stand by a country that scams its own citizens and then strives to do the same across the globe? What would become of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquartered in Washington, the District of Corruption?

There are few things a regulatory agency like our federal government can do creatively other than invent new laws. One is to provide defense and its corollary to create war. Another is to engage in fanciful bookkeeping.

While journalists, watchdogs, talking heads, and political scientists ponder the reason why we've decided to attack Iraq and vilify the easily condemnable Saddam Hussein at this particular point in time, practically no one seems to notice the relationship to other events occurring at the same time. Nor do they realize the full implications for the government or the depth of what's at stake.

Months after the collapse of Enron, many other major corporations were found to be doing the same, hiding debt, crooking the books, inflating their value on the stock market, and once exposed, causing the loss of billions in investor holdings. It was beginning to look like an epidemic. And it's still going on.

In his fashion, President Bush claimed that executives from these errant companies should all "be put in handcuffs" and made to suffer. Judged not up to the task, the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission was replaced and the government began to actively pursue a long list of swindlers.

None of the top dogs have yet to be jailed, including Kenneth Lay the CEO of Enron, but the business sections of newspapers are replete with weekly additions to the pot including Martha Stewart, the icon of recipes and helpful homemaking. Even the heads of government were suspected of insider trading and stonewalling investigations into their association, affiliation, and insider information with companies like Haliburton and who attended the Vice President's energy council. Most of this was managed and on the personal level.

The real danger arose when a few perceptive people began to question the government's own double bookkeeping, debt hiding, and deceptive practices, making comparisons to the Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and other corporate scoundrels. This was something the government could not allow to continue and expand.

But is it enough to warrant starting a war as a weapon of mass distraction?

The amounts of money stolen are certainly substantial, amounting to hundreds of billions per year with an accumulation of $2.7 trillion in fraudulent debt, it dwarfs anything done by private sector firms. And much of this banditry comes from the retirement money of American workers.

Still, the real reason for war goes much deeper.

Just as the Arthur Andersen accounting firm could have easily paid and been done with the fines leveled by the Securities and Exchange Commission, probably by giving up their Christmas bonuses, what caused the downfall of this well established company was its loss of clients. No longer trusting their auditors and/or not wanting to be seen as guilty by association, most of Arthur Andersen's clients pulled out and went elsewhere.

The same would be true of the government.

The federal government risks the loss of its stockholders. If the American workers find out how much of their retirement and health care money has been stolen, and if the taxpaying public finds out about the double taxation involved with the phony trust funds and the Pay-It-Again Sam scam of a fraudulent side of the national debt, then the politicians and bureaucrats in Washington could face much worse than simply losing their offices by not being re-elected. They would not only lose their seats of power, but could easily be facing rebellion and a lynch mob.

Perhaps worst of all, the grand plans for a New World Order would be thrown out with the rest of the garbage.

Now we have more than sufficient reason to start a war. And if you're going to do that, then pick a rather defenseless country where you can gain a little oil in the process, establish a foothold in the Middle East, and even get a little revenge for your father at the same time. All the time hoping and doing whatever you can to drag it on and on, creating controversy and keeping everyone's attention away from internal scandals until they've calmed down or disappeared, even if it makes us look like cowboys with shotgun diplomacy.

If you dare to take this a step further, recognize that the same sort of threat was present and rapidly expanding just prior to September 11, 2001 when the Social Security trust fund issue was up for grabs. The scam involved with robbing a substantial portion of the American worker's retirement contributions was coming unraveled. Some of the talking heads of media were even joking about how worthless federal entitlement trust funds were. Things were well on the way to opening up the entire ball of corruption, fraud, and grand theft.

In the warp and weave of things done to protect the innocent and alleviate terror, the government has been able to abandon the ABM Treaty without leaving something better in its place, open space for war, declare a first strike initiative, increase the size of government, take away civil liberties guaranteed by the Constitution by passing the Patriot Act in less time than it could have been written, and generally set up to control rebellion.

As Dorothy Anne Seese so aptly put it; "Two towers fell and the federalization of America took less than 48 hours to fall into place. People and governments do not react to truly unexpected events that quickly."

Confident in their camouflage, the powers that be are now able to continue with their grand plan for a New World Order in the face of negative reaction from friends and former allies and a sinking economy by borrowing us into oblivion. Something that will only further indenture and enslave the much too trusting and scared American people.