Sadly you are not that wrong. Go see Bowling for Columbine and What Really Happened in Panama. America has been corporatized for a long time, and the fact that Halliburton, Cheney's old company, got the contract to put out the oil field fires, is quite telling. And that $1.5 billion worth of contracts to rebuild Iraq were doled out to US corporations before the start of the war, without any congressional oversight. America needs to begin to take into account the dissent of the world as more than just jealousy and misunderstanding