Facts on Iraqi Invasion

The US in particular gave several reasons for invading Iraq, which are:

1. Iraq had WMDs and was a threat to world(?) peace.
2. Iraq violated UN Resolutions.
3. Iraq was not a ‘Democracy.’
4. Iraq had oppressed its own people.
5. Iraq used torture.
6. Iraq had invaded its neighbours
7. Iraq had links to Al Qaida and supported terrorism.
8. Iraq told lies.

Well, according to KryssTal, the real reasons are :

• Oil and Economic Control

Some interesting information provided by KryssTal :

• George W Bush (President): Received $2,800,000 from energy companies and another $2,300,000 from the car sector. Enron donated more than $1,000,000. Bush is a shareholder in General Electric, BP, Duke Energy, ExxonMobil, Newmont Gold Mining Corporation, Pennzoil and Tom Brown, Inc.
• Dick Cheney (Vice President): Used to head Halliburton (the world’s biggest oil-services company worth $18,200 million). Since 1992, Halliburton has contributed $1,600 million to politicians. Was a co-sponsor to a measure to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling and voted against the Clean Water Act which required industries to release their toxic emission records. Since 1998, Halliburton has completed $24 million’s worth of repairs to Iraqi oil pipelines. Dick Cheney has stated that “energy security should be the priority of USA foreign policy”.
• Spencer Abraham (Secretary of Energy): Received donations from General Motors, Ford, DaimlerChrysler.
• Gale Norton (Secretary of Interior): Has received donations British Petroleum and Ford.
• Condaleeza Rice (National Security Adviser): Spent 10 years on the board of oil giant Chevron Corporation. Chevron is involved in Nigeria where there is increasing USA military involvement, including training of Nigerian military to police the oil fields and secure pipelines.
• Don Evans (Secretary of Commerce): Was Chief Executive and Chairman of Tom Brown Inc. (an oil company). He was also a board member of Sharp Drilling, an oil industry contractor.

Read the details on KryssTal.

GW Bush is a failure – according to Google!

A ‘funny’ post on MakeUseOf! If you googled for “Who’s a failure?” this is the result!

Try googling for it yourself and see…   

So, as i was saying…..

lawlblog

U.S. heading to war in Iran, says former inspector

BY: MARILYN H. KARFELD Senior Staff Reporter

08/02/08 “Cleveland Jewish News” — – The former chief United Nations weapons inspector and a retired Middle East diplomat recently warned that America was heading straight toward imminent war with Iran.

And while both talked about wrong-headed U.S. policy in Iraq and Iran, they also criticized Israel for its role.

Scott Ritter, UN weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1998, and Edward Peck, onetime chief of mission in Baghdad and former ambassador to Mauritania, spoke recently at a forum sponsored by Cleveland Peace Action Now and Trinity Cathedral. Before the event, this reporter and a journalist from The Plain Dealer talked to Ritter and Peck.

The White House is using outright fabrications and exaggerations to persuade the American public that Iran has an active nuclear weapons program, Ritter and Peck claimed. The ultimate goal, they said, is overthrow of Iran’s Islamic theocracy.

Just as he did with Iraq, President Bush is falsely positioning Iran as a threat to U.S. national security and a leading sponsor of terrorism, contended Ritter, a 12-year Marine veteran who spent four years in Israel as lead liaison between the UN and the Jewish state on the issues of Iraq and nuclear weapons.

By demonizing Iran and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Bush is repeating the failed policy used against Saddam Hussein in Iraq, said Ritter, 46, who resigned under pressure from his UN post in 1998. Ritter claimed he was punished for criticizing the White House’s handling of Saddam Hussein. Allegations that he spied for Israel were ultimately dropped following an FBI investigation.

There is an 80% chance of war with Iran, probably in March or April, insisted the impassioned Ritter, who was last in Iran in September 2005. A second window of opportunity for an air assault opens in October or November, he added.

Ritter has been making this prediction of war with Iran for at least three years. Internet research turned up a similar forecast he made in April 2005, insisting an aerial attack on Iran was likely that June.

Israel, according to his 2006 book, is largely responsible for the coming military action. The Jewish Daily Forward reported that in Ritter’s Target Iran: The Truth About the White House’s Plan for Regime Change, the antiwar activist writes: “Let there be no doubt. If there is an American war with Iran, it is a war that was made in Israel and nowhere else.”

Information Clearing House 

Bush Is Too Horrendous to Be Forgotten

SPIEGEL talks to American author Philip Roth about growing old, why George W. Bush is the worst American president ever and why he never gives out his cell phone number.

AP

Philip Roth is one of the most celebrated living American writers.

Philip Roth, who will be 75 in March, is one of America’s most critically acclaimed living writers. His 1969 novel “Portnoy’s Complaint” brought him fame, and he went on to win a Pulitzer Prize for 1997’s “American Pastoral.”Many of his novels feature Roth’s fictional alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman. Zuckerman appears again in Roth’s latest work, “Exit Ghost,” where he returns to New York after many years of seclusion in rural New England.

SPIEGEL: What will remain of the current president, George W. Bush? Could he be forgotten once he leaves office?

Roth: He was too horrendous to be forgotten. There will be an awful lot written about this. And there’s a lot to be written about the war. There’s a lot to be written about what he did with Reaganism, since he went much further than Reagan. So he won’t be forgotten. Someone has said he’s the worst American president we’ve ever had. I think that’s true.

SPIEGEL: Why?

Roth: Well, the biggest thing would be the war, the deceptions surrounding the entrance into the war. The absolute cynicism that surrounds the deception. The cost of the war, the Treasury and the lives of the Americans. It’s hideous. There is nothing quite like it. The next thing would be the attitude towards global warming, which is a global crisis, and they were utterly indifferent, if not hostile, to any attempt to address it. And so on and so on and so on and so on. So he’s done a lot of harm.

SPIEGEL: Since your book is set in that week during the 2004 elections, can you explain why Americans voted for Bush once again?

Roth: I suspect it was the business of being in a war and not wanting to change, and political stupidity. Why does anybody elect anybody? I thought highly of John Kerry when he began, but he couldn’t stand up against Bush. The Democrats aren’t brutes, which is too bad, because the Republicans are brutes. Brutes win.

Spiegel Online

Before the Bush administration leaves office they will try to attack Iran.

By Sari Gelzer
t r u t h o u t | Interview    Monday 04 February 2008

    Daniel Ellsberg, perhaps the country’s most famous whistleblower, fears that before the Bush administration leaves office they will try to attack Iran.

    Indeed, Ellsberg’s argument gained merit as George W. Bush increased his rhetoric against Iran when he delivered his final State of the Union Address. Bush accused Iran of training militia extremists in Iraq, and emphasized the US will confront its enemies.

    In a wide-ranging interview with Truthout, Ellsberg uses insight from his experience as a Pentagon analyst under the Lyndon B. Johnson, and later, the Nixon administration, to discuss Bush’s plans to begin a war with Iran, the role of the press to give whistleblowers exposure, and how American democracy can be restored.

truthout 

Iraq that Bush ‘liberated!’

For more pictures of ‘liberated’ Iraqis, go to Zonaeuropa

Barcode for products of Israel

If you want to boycott goods produced by Israeli regime, look out for this barcode when you purchase stuffs.

Barcode of items starting with 729 means it’s a product of the regime.