Why Are We in Iraq?
First, it was weapons of mass destruction. Then it was because Saddam was supposedly behind 9/11. Then it was because al-Qaeda were supposed to have established bases in Iraq. Then it was to bring democracy to the Iraqis.
As one "noble cause" was proven to be false, another "noble cause" was dreamt up by Bush and Cheney.
What are the REAL reasons America and its Coalition allies invaded Iraq?
"The Iraq War is largely about OIL" - Alan Greenspan
U.S. Blackmailing Iraq to Hand Over Control of Oil Resources
Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich: "Privatizing Iraq's Oil is Theft!"
At at noon press conference, on May 24, 2007, at the Cannon Terrace, on Capitol Hill, Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), ripped into the Bush-Cheney Gang's legislative scheme to privatize the oil of Occupied Iraq. He charged: "Privatizing Iraq's oil is theft." He also called the Iraq Supplemental Bill: "a moment of truth for the Democratic Party." Rep. Kucinich explained how the proposed Bill, now pending before the U.S. Congress, via its benchmarks, will provide for the privatization of Iraqi oil. It requires the regime in Iraq to pass a law called, "The Hydrocarbon Act." If they refuse to do so over a billion dollars in reconstruction funds will be blocked by the Bush-Cheney administration, he claimed. This measure, which Rep. Kucinich characterized as "blackmail," would permit multinational oil corporations---many based in the U.S.--to exercise control over the Iraqi oil. The Democratic leadership in the Congress is giving its explicit support to this legislative device. Unless the scheme is stopped, Rep. Kucinich predicted, we will be looking at an Iraqi War "going on forever!" For more details, check out: http://www.bushagenda.net/article.php?id=369
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#1 Real Reason For Iraq Invasion: Oil
3 Reasons For Iraq Invasion: Oil Oil and More Oil
Rep. Charles Rangel: "Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz and all of them had decided to knock off Saddam Hussein for the oil long before 9/11. And if there is one thing that Cheney, Bush and Saudi Arabia has in common is three things: oil, oil and more oil"
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Resurrecting Empire : Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East
Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East
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Rashid Khalidi's powerful book examines the record of Western involvement in the Middle East and analyzes the likely outcome of our most recent incursions into the area. Drawing on his encyclopedic knowledge of the political and cultural history of the entire region, Khalidi paints a chilling scenario of our present situation and yet offers a tangible alternative that can help us find the path to peace rather than Empire. Additionally, Professor Khalidi discusses recent developments in Iraq and the aftermath of the U.S. presidential election.
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Iraq War "Based on a Pack of Lies"
George Galloway, British Member of Parliament, addresses U.S. Senate
U.S. Senate owned by George Galloway
Congressional hearing over Iraqi oil for food program where British Parliament member George Galloway tells committee how they lied decieved ignored and failed to do their jobs before and after the war with regards to Iraq. We need a whole bunch more like him!!!
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Full Spectrum Dominance
"I have said earlier that the United States is now totally frank about putting its cards on the table. That is the case. Its official declared policy is now defined as 'Full spectrum dominance.' That is not my term, it is theirs. 'Full spectrum dominance' means control of land, sea, air space and all attendant resources..."
~ Harold Pinter, Winner of Nobel Prize for Literature, 2005
The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq
The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq
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In March 2003, Patrick Cockburn traveled secretly to Iraq just before the invasion, and has covered the war from Baghdad ever since. In The Occupation, Cockburn describes the fighting on the ground as Saddam's armies collapsed, the looting of Baghdad, the failure of the US occupation, the springs of the resistance and how it turned into a full scale uprising. Explaining how the three main Iraqi communities, the Kurds, the Shia and the Sunni, responded to the growing conflict, he gives us a nuanced portrait of daily life in Baghdad, of how Iraqis themselves reacted to the invasion and the long war and occupation that followed.
Important Websites on Iraq War
- What Really Happened
- Daily commentary on news on Iraq, the Middle East and the United States
- BBC News: Conflict with Iraq
- News and views on the Iraq war, updated daily.
- Uruknet - Information from Occupied Iraq
- Provides headline links to news reports from inside Iraq.
- Why Are We In Iraq?
- As Ayn Rand once put it, don't bother to examine a folly - ask yourself only what it accomplishes. If we look at the public reasons for the Iraq war, it is clear that none of these have been accomplished, nor are they likely to be achieved in the near or even distant future. Iraqi "democracy" is a bizarre mutation of clerical domination, unimaginable corruption, and rule by death squads, and those "weapons of mass destruction" have returned to the netherworld of the neoconservative imagination from whence they emerged onto the front page of the New York Times.
If, on the other hand, we look at what is actually happening in Iraq, and throughout the region, we can discern the real goals of the invasion, and they are two: a civil war in the Muslim world (check!) and the positioning of U.S. military forces for a confrontation with the next victim of the regime-change game: Iran (check!).
So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits--and the President--Failed on Iraq
So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits--and the President--Failed on Iraq
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"With the tragic war in Iraq dragging on, and the drumbeat for new conflicts growing louder, this is more than a five-year history of the biggest foreign policy debacle of our times -- it's a cautionary tale that is as relevant as this morning's headlines. Greg Mitchell makes it clear that Iraq is a case study in bad judgment, from the misguided moves of an administration blinded by its zealotry to a complacent media that too often acted as an extension of the White House press office. Read it and weep; read it and get enraged; read it and make sure it doesn't happen again."
-- Arianna Huffington
The View from the White House
- The White House: National Strategy for Iraq
- "The following document articulates the broad strategy the President set forth in 2003 and provides an update on our progress as well as the challenges remaining."
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