Liar: The War In Iraq

War in Iraq

The Bush administration has claimed that the war in Iraq is a fight for freedom, and democracy. I've heard the administration say that it was about the weapons of mass destruction. I've heard that it was a war to remove Saddam Hussien from power. Several government officials have said there are definitely

relations between Iraq and Al Queda, and we were invading because Iraq harbored terrorists. The president has even said "We need to fight the terrorists Ð''over there' so we don't have to fight them here". I see things from a totally different point of view. I see an invasion for military bases. I see an invasion for oil reserves. I see an invasion for installing a government that will benefit the United States' interests. I see an invasion that made certain corporations millions of dollars, and cost taxpayers billions. This war has cost the lives of thousands of civilians and thousands of soldiers. This war was ordered by a man who "is seen by many, at best, as an ineffective spokesperson for American interests, and at worst as a gun-slinging cowboy knocking over international treaties and is bent on controlling the worlds oil, if not the entire world".

The bottom line is that the invasion of Iraq was an act of American imperialism, in an effort to build our empire. This was not a fight for freedom, but a fight for the neoconservative movement. We are not promoting democracy; we are promoting American dominance in world affairs.

It all starts with the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). It is a Washington, D.C. based think tank that was established in 1997 with the goal of "American Global Leadership". Basically, this group has been proposing military and economic domination of land and space to establish America as a sole "super power" in the future. The PNAC website states "American leadership is good both for America and the world", and "too few political leaders today are making the case for global leadership."

They issued a report in September of 2000 entitled "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategies, Forces, and Resources for a New Century". In the report, the group states that when diplomacy fails, the U.S. must be prepared to take military action. They state that peace keeping in the Balkans, and enforcing the no-fly zones in Iraq put a strain on U.S. forces. They recommend forward redeployment of U.S. forces at new strategically placed permanent military bases. They also go on to say that they want to reshape the Middle East because Iraq and Iran pose as a threat to U.S. interests in the Gulf.

So just who are the members of this group that want to put permanent military bases in the middle east and aim to gain unchallengeable superiority through all means necessary, regardless of cost of lives or money? Several prominent members of the Republican party, and the Bush administration, including Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Jeb Bush, Richard Perle, Richard Armitage, Lewis Libby, William J. Bennet, Zalmay Kahlizad, and Ellen Bork. What a coincidence! The plan to invade Iraq was made in the late 90's, long before the the horrific attacks of 9-1-1.

In 1998, the members of PNAC wrote a letter to President Bill Clinton urging him to remove Saddam Hussein from power using U.S. diplomatic, political, and military power. They said a war in Iraq would be justified by Hussein's unwillingness to cooperate with the U.N. containment policy, and would remain a constant threat to U.S. interests.

Sounds to me like these members wanted a second Gulf war before the Bush administration even existed.

When President George W. Bush was elected in 2000, many of the PNAC's members were amounted to key positions in the new administration. Here's where it gets ugly. September 11th, 2001: Two planes fly into the World Trade Center, another hits the Pentagon, and a fourth crashes in a field in Pennsylvania. All four of these planes were hijacked by members of Al Qaeda, but somehow this triggered plans for the War on Terror, which takes place in Iraq. A CBS report revealed that Donald Rumsfeld was informed at 12:05 p.m. that a phone call was intercepted earlier that morning, at 9:53 a.m. to be exact, from one of Osama bin Laden's operatives in Afghanistan saying he "heard good news" and that "another target was yet to come". Rumsfeld didn't think it was meaningful enough or relevant of any circumstances, even though thousands of innocent American citizens had been injured or killed just three hours prior. Later, the CIA reported the passenger manifests for the hijacked airliners showed three suspected Al Qaeda operatives.

The report goes on to say that one of the guys was associated with the attack on the U.S.S. Cole, which was also the work of Bin Laden.