Why is the world so messed up?

When I predicted that the US would in invade Iraq. It was before the terrible events of 911. People (DEBUNKERS) told me that I was stupid. Bush would not invade Iraq like his famous father. There was no reason to invade Iraq. After 911 everything changed.

Now the debunkers are saying that $4/gal gas and $100/barrel oil is "obvious" and that I get all my predictions from CNN. They claim PEAK OIL and problems in the middle east explain the reason why oil is so high.

My prediction for grim high unemployement and rampant inflation are also seen as "obvious". To be brutally honest, I wish oil was cheap and there was no war in Iraq.

These events did not seem obvious in 2000, and back then gasoline was a little over a dollar a gallon. Now scooters sell like hotcakes, while SUVs rust on the car lot.

Here’s the problem you get when dealing with skeptics. Let us say that an alien visiting earth began to describe an automobile to his alien people.

A "CAR" is not an animal, but it has a computer brain. It makes a sound “honk honk”, but that sound is not a mating call it is to warn other cars.

Finally the alien begins to describe the cigarette lighter.

Alien Scout:It is a small cylinder that gets very hot.

Alien Boss:Sounds dangerous. It could start a fire.

Alien Scout:That’s the idea, humans light cigarettes.

Alien Boss:What is a cig?

Alien Scout:A small cylinder made of leaves. Humans light the cylinder to make smoke.

Alien Boss:A communication device with Smoke Signals?

Alien Scout:No humans breathe the smoke.

Alien Boss:Is it a cure for a disease, medicinal perhaps?

Alien Scout:No, these cylinders of smoke cause disease, lung cancer even!

Alien Boss:That is impossible, the human government would never allow such a thing.

Alien Scout:The human guv gets rich off the taxes on the cylinders of death.

Alien Boss:You’re a liar. I do not believe you. Yesterday you told me that humans were spending billions creating nuclear bombs to commit suicide. That is another lie no doubt. No creature would spend its resources on ways to destroy itself.

Sadly, the truth does not have to be logical.

Imagine trying to explain Communist Red China to Karl Marx. Or to Abraham Lincoln why republicans are shutting down factories in the US to move them to Red China - where in this “workers paradise” strikes are illegal.

Try explaining to future generation why the US invaded Iraq.