Finishing the excerpt, Van Buren tries to expose the importance of spending taxpayers' dollars at home, because the adoption of an imperialist and expansionist strategy seemed to benefit only the greedy corporations and to transpose to our own population and the rest of the world the feeling that we tried everything we could but that people did not want to be helped in any sense, while our own place still need to be rebuilt and adopt another mentality for its own policy.
Last December, the U.S. government announced the official closure of the Iraq War and the withdrawal of the last soldiers of the country's imperialist coalition headed by the United States and England, ending an unjust war, illegal and coward whose seems to have other purposes than only restore the country to a fair administration and better conditions to its people. Unjust because it was an imperialist war, a war of plunders whose goal was to take possession of the resources and explore Iraqis; illegal due to the disregard of the most basic principles of international law and sovereignty and self-determination of peoples, passing over several UN resolutions and the will of world public opinion; and coward because it was the war of the largest armies in the world against a country that for years has been victim of an economic blockade which, among other things, prohibited it from buying any type of military equipment.
During the months before the invasion of Iraq a massive campaign of forgeries was promoted by the mainstream press and the imperialist governments to justify to a new war and hide their true objectives to people. The main and most famous of these planted ideas was that Iraq possessed both chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction making it necessary to disarm the country in order to maintain the world peace. However, in more than 700 inspections conducted by the UN in the country none of these 'powerful' weapons were found.