Letter: Rich and powerful driving us to war

Friday, Oct. 12, 2007 | 7:23 a.m.

Alea Iacta Est (The die is cast!). These historical words are attributed to Julius Caesar as he prepared to cross the Rubicon. The beginning of the end of the Roman Republic!

How relevant the words when reading the Las Vegas Sun's article ("Powerful in Vegas, hawkish toward Iran," Oct. 7) about Sheldon Adelson, a man who made his fortune from the throws of the dice, using some of that wealth to support Freedom's Watch. Peel back the veneer and the drumbeat to attack Iran is there for all to hear.

The powers and the money are bringing on an event of no return. The imperialist intentions are laid bare, the division of East and West have their lines drawn, the Republicans have the fear of terrorist attacks as their issue for '08, the spineless Democrats are forced to continue the war efforts in '08 that will now include Iran. And the casualties of war will include thousands if not hundreds of thousands of Israelis, Iranians, Iraqis and soldiers, as well as hundreds throughout the world, victims of increased terrorist attacks.

As in the Bible, many of us are a "vox clamantis in deserto," a voice of one crying out in the desert, not heard. Would that the powerful and the moneyed took on the more difficult burden of peace-making!

The president will bomb Iran (he will cast the die, he will cross the Rubicon). There will be no turning back from a war president, the fanatical vision of the think tanks and those powerful few who have such control of the foreign agenda of the United States. The movie "Apocalypse Now" lays out the scenario : The Horror! The Horror!

Ken Bubb, Las Vegas