by- Suzie-Q @ 2:25 PM MST
Why Did Bush Invade Iraq?
American soldiers have been fighting and dying in Iraq since 2003, and Americans do not know why.
All the reasons President Bush gave us for his war are false. Bush said he invaded Iraq “to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, to end Saddam Hussein’s support for terrorism, and to free the Iraqi people.”
We now know that these were false claims. Disinformation about Iraq was produced by a special unit within the Pentagon run by Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Feith. The unit operated outside the normal intelligence channels of the CIA and DIA. Its purpose was to create false intelligence to enable Bush to initiate war with Iraq.
Did President Bush know that the claims put into his speeches by his speechwriters was false?
Who instructed Bush’s speechwriters to incorporate known lies into the President’s speeches?
Why did Vice President Cheney, the Secretary of State, the National Security Advisor, and the Secretary of Defense all lie to the American people and to the entire world?
What is the real agenda?
Millions of Americans have come to their own conclusions about the reasons for Bush’s invasion: (1) Oil: the US government wants to hold on to power by expanding its control over oil, and Bush and Cheney want to reward their oil company cronies. (2) Military-security complex: Police agencies favor war as a means of expanding their power, and military industries favor war as a means of expanding their profits. (3) Neoconservative ideology: Neocons’ believe in “American exceptionalism” and claim that America’s virtue gives the US government the right and the obligation to impose US hegemony on the rest of the world, especially in the Middle East where independent Muslim states object to Israel’s theft of Palestine. (4) Karl Rove: Rove used the “war president” role to rescue Bush from attack by Democrats as an illegitimate president elected by one vote of the US Supreme Court. (5) American self-righteousness over 9/11 and lust for revenge.
All of these reasons came together to make a cruel war on an innocent people.
There may be other reasons about which we know not.
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From the article:
Who instructed Bush’s speechwriters to incorporate known lies into the President’s speeches?
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Hmmm… Cheney and Rove’s evildoing no less.
“Hmmm… Cheney and Rove’s evildoing no less.”
And why did they do the evildoing…?
Illuminati…Bilderbergers…Bohemian Grovers…AIPAC…etc…)*
And PNAC was involved too.. After all the PNAC wanted another “Pearl Harbor”.. Sick bastards!
We need grass roots power now more than any other time in history. Our world is being transformed as we speak and the demise of the middle class is becoming evident on a global level.
Whatever part of our respective cultures we have retained we should hang on to. The alternative is to have a universal identity, instead of a tribal identity, or even a national identity.
Wealth and welfare?
As far as I’m concerned…give me a patch of fertile ground and something non genetic to plant there.
The water and the air that I breath will be my luxuries, and make all things possible. Like keeping warm and a safe place to rest. Oh yeh…
I would also like to keep my computor with a fiber-optic connection…
I guess that I am a born hypocrite…G:.?zzzZZZ
Oh yeh…
I would also like to keep my computor with a fiber-optic connection…
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Oh Geezer:
You’re so darn funny! The necessities of life, eh?
ROFLMAO
What this all boils down to is the public being played like cheap fiddles by the oligarchy. They keep us running this way and that, totally unorganized and out-of-focus, with distractions of materialism and self-indulgence.
Geez… you’re a man after my own heart! I’m a caveman, myself…
… word to our hostess! 😉
Wordgeezer, we need the commanders. Intellectuals rule by a thread, and their days might be numbered, if we have the military leadership.
I’ve written publically to them for over a year. All of my appeals are on HuffPo’s servers. I requested their turning and challenged their morality before their own succeeding generations. What I wanted was their introspection and that one thing: to come back home.
And if they could not find the path within? That was the risk I was willing to take and I would do it again. And again.
It was the only course I could take. The Country placed before it all can do that to a person, for a person. I have never felt threatened, only empowered. That, I think, was what our founding fathers meant for times like these.
Thats why we are here, my friend.
Bush Sought ‘Way’ To Invade Iraq?, O’Neill Tells ’60 Minutes’ Iraq Was ‘Topic A’ 8 Months Before 9-11 – CBS News
Has anyone read O’Neill’s book? What about the other O’Neil? Why did he know and who killed him, why?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3857917663523144457&q=WKJO
Aren’t 1, 2, and 4 all just a subset of 3?
Stephen
Thanks, I feel better now. To be awake and in the moment is an awesome reality but also a fleeting experience that vanishes into a dream. We are all born awake and know all that we need to know about morality and good and evil. We learn to be self serving and emulate the behaviour of our peers, sometimes in the guise of what is called education.
As a child I remember my private moments where I could set under a tree and just be. It was after the 2nd. world war and before Korea. I thought about the awfulness of war and about Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The defeated enemy was described by images seen in the news reels we saw in the theatres, and even by the cartoon characters of Disney and Warner Bros. Nazis, Japs, Fascists, people who didn’t look anything like us. Afterall, we are Americans, and we pledge allegience to the flag every morning when we go to class.
As I sat there, the reality of growing up with the possability of going to war where it would be kill or be killed was unacceptable. It was a time of endless summer and I didn’t want to grow up. Things were pretty much perfect then and this was where I would remain forever.
At age seventy I still find a tree to set under and look for that fleeting moment of truth and reality before I again slip into the dream that is our existence in the here and now…
good thoughts good words and good deeds, my friend.
This could be an “all of the above” type of thing. Add to this Iraq’s perceived threat to Israel, Saddam’s assassination attempt on Bush Sr., and possibly even Iraq’s Bilbical significance and you might just have the perfect storm.
I’ve thought about this quite a bit, and I think if I had to pick just one it would be 3) PNAC/neoconservative ideology. It’s no secret that these guys wanted to take Saddam out well before 9/11. I think the bigger question than ‘why did they invade?’ would be ‘why did they not plan for the aftermath?’. I recently posted about how the evidence keeps mounting that this administration must have known about the chaos that would ensue after Saddam’s ouster. I know they wouldn’t have stated this reality publicly before the war, as they would have undoubtedly lost support for the invasion. But they didn’t even plan for it. It’s like they ignored all that, and preferred to live in their own little bubble .
It’s all so disgusting. Lies, incompetence, cronyism, war profiteering, fearmongering etc. And to think that 30% out there still support this guy.
I was there then and am presently here now. National Geographic magazine recently used their trusted pulpit to do a feature called “Why We Lie”. which tries to rationalise lying as a normal part of our existence. In it they say “Honesty may be the best policy, but deception and dishonesty are part of being human”. This is a far cry from the magazines that I read when I was a kid…G%