My response to Lynn Wilbur’s letter (The World, Aug. 14).

Oh my God, Lynn. When I see people believing what the corporate media wants you to believe, and spreading it to boot, I just want to scream.

Let’s look at the indisputable facts so history doesn’t get rewritten.

It is a slam dunk that Mr. Bush lied us into war. Most countries knew this but patronized us. They’re gone now. The war has been horrendously mismanaged to the point that in November 2007, the Sunnis proposed that we pay each man $100 a month to hunt al-Qaida. We agreed and called it, “the Al Anbar awakening.”

Since that time, for months, the violence chart takes a dive toward pre-war levels. Just before it hit its bottom, the “surge” was created. Its date is marked 85 percent down the chart and had no effect on the pattern of decline in violence.

Yes. The surge also was a lie.

The oil men got what they knew they would get because there is also a chart that shows the increase in oil prices with every little war. It is unmistakable.

We have to stop enabling these businessmen. Don’t watch their news. They’re shaping the way you think. We must stop “their” propaganda machine.

Don’t think for a second that the U.S./Russia confrontation hasn’t been orchestrated in the name of oil either. Rice was there with the president of Georgia and Karl Rove was in the region at the time.

This stinks of Iraq and more lies.