Want a weapon of mass destruction? Try a credit card in the hands of a borrowholic.

You can't blame this on September eleventh without also admitting that the mysterious and elusive, if not computer generated, Osama bin Laden knew exactly where to hurt us with an attack on our international banking center, our military planning headquarters, and a third plane that was heading for either the White House, the Federal Reserve, the offices of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or the World Bank headquarters all located inside the Beltway.

Of course, Washington isn't going to admit to a $403 billion deficit. In a true Enron WorldCom, Arthur Andersen array of debt hiding tricks, the government will admit to only a $219 billion deficit, if that much, while simply not mentioning the amount borrowed/stolen from 20 entitlement accounts like Social Security.

Mitch Daniels, Director of the president's Office of Management and Budgets (OMB), has been preparing us for this lie by telling us that the deficit for this year is going to be about $165 billion. Well, we've already borrowed $219 billion from investors with a month more to go, and if that isn't a deficit what is it?

The only way to come up with a lesser figure is to pretend that part of the money borrowed (borrowed honestly by the way) was to make up for the big shortfall in income tax receipts caused by the economy and, therefore, shouldn't count as "over budget." That's one of the tricks today causing corporate executives to end up in handcuffs.

And let's not forget that the government lied to us about how many quarters of last year we were in recession. Instead of just one three month period, they are now trying to convince us that two additional quarters of a negative GDP (gross domestic product) was simply an oversight, a mistake in addition and subtraction. This from the accountants capable of recording the national debt to the penny.

Unlike the common sense of the average citizen, when the government is faced with a revenue shortfall it doesn't reign in spending one iota. The budget is sacrosanct, written in stone, not to be changed even in the face of disaster. After all, Congress has made all sorts of promises to constituents and special interest lobbyists and there isn't a bit of waste in their calculations. Besides, the American people can afford it. Put it on the never-never plan. Charge it. Give it to the younger generations to cover.

Also remember that 9/11 occurred just three weeks prior to the new fiscal 2002 budget going into effect. Not enough time to cut spending and devote money to the new war on everybody, but certainly enough time to pass the Patriot Act without reading it.

Besides all of that, the government has come up with new ways to spend even more money. Ways such as the ridiculously over weighted farm bill, backing out of the ABM Treaty without leaving something better in its place just so we could revise Reagan's old costly "star wars" project, and adding 30,000 new employees to the government's ranks, just to mention a few.

If you want to see an austerity program, all you have to do is look at the Russian defense budget that in one year dropped to 15 percent of what it had been before the end of the Cold War.

But we had no reason to do that. We're the victors and the richest nation in the world. During the false economy of the Nineties, our defense budgets dipped only slightly and Clinton is being criticized for that. He even closed a few military bases and had them converted into internment camps for dissidents like me, outspoken people who don't go along with the New World Order. The long range but expedited plan for American Imperialism that caused the 9/11 attack in the first place.

Not that it matters, but there may be just as much evidence to show that the Al Qaida shot its wad in the first attack, was surprised by the outcome, and wasn't trying to wipe out the American public the way we did Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was a surgical strike on the New World Order just as precise as our own leveling of Panama City in order to capture Noriega, our own elimination of Salvador Allende in Chile, our throwing out the Taliban in Afghanistan, and our express desire to change the Sadaam Hussein regime in the oil rich nation of Iraq.

Beating the war drums to stimulate people into waving their flags more vigorously, President Bush has almost everyone convinced that Sadaam Hussein is an evildoer, has developed weapons of mass destruction without Ollie North's help, and must be removed from office if not the face of the earth. And the American people have rallied behind and bought into the idea because their president told them so.

Without any proof that this man who's been under quarantine for a decade did anything worse than we did at Waco, did it when we were supporting him, and without once examining the records of the United Nations that still enforces an embargo and held ten years of disarmament inspections, we are going to war against Iraq, without question, no doubt about it.

Even as I write this article, CNN is reporting an intruder spotted at one of our "high security chemical weapons depots" in Deseret, Utah. At least 17 acres of Serin gas and other weapons of mass destruction. Will somebody please tell me what the good guys are doing with these biological weapons?

We've claimed the right to a first strike initiative against anyone who "might" harbor evil thoughts about us and we've completely given up any pride we once had in a "don't tread on me" policy. We are now openly and unabashedly the aggressors instead of the heroes in white hats.

We'll go to war against Iraq without the support of our allies if we must, we'll do it even if the rest of the Arab world rallies around Sadaam, and we'll do it no matter what it costs, both in money and in loss of life.

Obviously, the American people can afford it because they are not complaining and they're still going to casinos, playing lotto, paying hundreds of dollars for a seat at sports events, and buying cars and houses because interest rates are low if not gone entirely. We've even got a real estate bubble developing that may turn out to be as wonderful and rewarding as the stock market bubble of the Nineties.

The public wants blood from somewhere, everywhere except from the Daddy Warbucks colony in Washington that has consistently robbed them of their retirement money, but now must be relied on to protect them. Just listen to all the scare stories the government is putting out with this in mind.