Criminals used to cash in when publishers paid them huge sums to go into every gory detail of their crime sprees.

Finally, the law stepped in, and many states have enacted legislation preventing these hardened criminals from profiting on their horror stores.

But tragically, some of the all-star cast in generating war in Iraq is cashing in big time on a fraudulent conflict erected on a tissue of lies.  If their participation in this ghastly venture was treated as a criminal conspiracy to destroy business, they might be tried and sent to jail pronto.

But the war game, where so many people profit and make tainted millions, is another story.  Over the dead bodies of nearly 2,500 American service personnel and around 15,000 wounded along with over 100,000 Iraqis dead, these author vultures can profit along with their publishers.  War contributors are not stopped from selling their contribution to the deadly mistaken war, but are amply rewarded.