American Empire is a term referring to the political, economic, military and cultural influence of the United States. The sources and proponents of this concept range from liberal theorists opposed to what they take to be aggressive U.S. policy, to neo-conservatives who believe the U.S. must embrace an imperial role.

But there is no denying of US’s role as an Imperial power around the world and its desire to be an “Empire” which is very transparent with US foreign policies. This policy began with our thirst for foreign oil, from Franklin Roosevelt’s 1945 deal with King Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia, over throwing of democratically elected Iranian government of Mohammed Mosaddeq in 1953 by CIA, George Bush Sr. first Iraq war, US Corporations bullying others around the world, and to the infamous never ending current Iraq invasion.

I say lets boastfully embrace this idea of an “Empire” and move forward. The term “Empire” does not have to mean the same thing as under British or European empires. With all our knowledge, smarts, and as the world’s only superpower we can use this enormous empire like power to improve and solve problems around the globe.

Instead of improving humanity, neo-conservatives, and our dim-witted president has decided to kill and maim so many of our brave troops and wasted close to trillion of our hard earned dollars for our obsession with oil as can be seen by recent NY Times article, published on June 19, 2008 – “Deals With Iraq Are Set to Bring Oil Giants Back”. “Where Four Western oil companies (Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP) are in the final stages of negotiations this month on NO BID contracts that will return them to Iraq, 36 years after losing their oil concession to nationalization as Saddam Hussein rose to power”

Moises Saman for The New York Times

Oil fields in the Iraqi province of Basra. Iraq produces about 2.5 million barrels of oil per day

After all the excuses given before, such as “Weapons of Mass Destruction”, “Harboring terrorists”, “Al-Qaeda in Iraq”, “Bringing democracy to middle east”, and on and on. We now know why Bush and his Oil allies went to war in Iraq. “OIL”

After all the killing and pain, are we better of today than 8 years ago. Let’s see, Gas is at all time high – over $4.00 a gallon, economy in recession, mortgage crisis, wealth gap increasing between and rich and poor, approximately 50 million people with no health insurance, our standing in the world at all time low, rise of the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), and finally our dollar at all time low.

We as a country can do far better; we are great people with good heart and souls. Some of the souls of our republican or democratic friends may be corrupted but we can save or heal them. I say kick all the bum’s out of Washington and bring new blood back. For that we need younger generation to be involved in politics, understand what their rights are and take this country back.

Background. I supported Bush for his first term. He ran as a Uniter (I wish his slogan said ‘Dumbass’) and I believed him. I am not ashamed to say that I made a mistake, he fooled me. But I learned and did not support him his second term. But my countrymen let me down, and reelected the Idiot. This has set this country back ages and we cannot afford that with the third term of Bush with McCain.

McCain is an old timer with no new ideas, copying every idea from Senator Obama’s campaign. McCain even ripped off Obama's slogan and logo. He took Obama’s "Change You Can Believe In" and altered it into "A Leader You Can Believe In." How lame do you have be to do that. With his millions of campaign dollars, (of course Cindy’s millions), he could not hire somebody for innovative campaign ideas. If he and his campaign lack simple campaign ideas how is he going to run this country?

I say no to 4 more years of neo-conservative ideas, Bush, McCain and yes to Obama. We as people are at the cross roads and this is our chance to “Save This Empire”