From Kate Bush's '85 album Hounds of Love. The video, based on the life of psychologist Wilhelm Reich, features Donald Sutherland.

Lyrics: http://www.lyricsdomain.com/11/kate_bush/cloudbusting.html

More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich#Orgone_accumulators_and_cloudbusters

tgeffeney - I'm glad you asked. As Donald Sutherland once said:

"Well that's the real question, isn't it? Why? The how and the who is just scenery for the public."

There are many possibilities (and at the moment, that's all they are - possibilities. I'm not saying I endorse any of these in particular). Oil is one obvious motive. Establishing a military presence in the Middle East to guard against the increasing might of Russia and China is another. Halliburton's no-bid contracts to rebuild Iraq. The corporations that supply the military industry. Israel getting the US to do its dirty work. Distraction from politically damaging domestic issues. An excuse for bad legislation like the Patriot Act. Legitimising NSA wire-taps. These are just a few off the top of my head.

The fact is, many people have benefitted financially and politically, and while that's no evidence of a conspiracy (much of it, no doubt, is mere cynical opportunism), it is an important question to ask.

Now: who didn't benefit? Al-Qaeda didn't - they've had their arse thoroughly kicked. Afghanistan? Nope. Iraq? Err...

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Donald Sutherland stars as Wilhelm Reich in Kate Bush's music video "Cloudbusting". Kate stars as Peter, Reich's son.

More on Reich here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich