Iraq

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Already in October 2000, before President Bush was even confirmed as a president of the United States, thinktank Pnac around Richard Perle and Charles Krauthammer planned a regime change in Iraq. This plan was renewed on September 20th, 2001, signed by the same 42 people. On October 13th, 2002, Neil MacKay wrote in the Sunday Herald, that the CIA admitted that the only reason Saddam would use WMDs (Weapons of Mass destruction), against the United States was if he was backed into a corner and therefore warned of a war. While the United States always claimed, they would attack Iraq because of a threat of WMD, the media started to doubt this. In January 2003, a poll in TIME magazine showed, that 76% of the readers think, the real reason is about oil. DER SPIEGEL responded with a cover: "Blood for Oil". http://www.time.com/time/europe/me In January 2002, UN-Inspectors came to the conclusion, that there is no "smoking gun" in Iraq, but Bush continued with sending more troops into the gulf, while the CIA still desperately tried to tie Iraq with Al-Quaeda. Jean-Louis Bruguire, France's leading terrorist investigator, came to the conclusion, that there is no link between al-Qaeda and Iraq. "Not a trace". Already in December 2001, the UK Observer revealed a plan to attack Iraq, opposed by Tony Blair and other European Union leaders, threatens to blow apart the increasingly shaky international consensus behind the US-led 'war on terrorism'. Almost one year later, it was once again Richard Perle, who was sure, the war would start in 2003: "...George Bush's top security adviser last night admitted the US would attack Iraq even if UN inspectors fail to find weapons. Dr Richard Perle stunned MPs by insisting a "clean bill of health" from UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix would not halt America's war machine. "Perle says the Americans would be satisfied with such claims even if no real evidence was produced." http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12377231&method=full&siteid=50143

(See Pnac)

http://www.sundayherald.com/print28384 At the beginning of December 2002 the Bush administration appeared to be positioning itself to declare Iraq in "Material Breach" of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1441. As Marc Ash from truthout.org pointed out in an article, two days before another deadline: 1. The candor of the White House's own disclosures on Iraq have effectively been called into question; 2. Iraqi oil production facilities clearly appear to be an objective of the US mission.

Also known was, that though legal, leading US oil service companies such as Halliburton , Baker Hughes, Schlumberger, Flowserve, Fisher-Rosemount and others, have used subsidiaries and joint venture companies for this lucrative business, so as to avoid straining relations with Washington and jeopardising their ties with President Saddam Hussein's government in Baghdad...." Source: http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/articles.htmloffset=&query=cheney+iraq+halliburton&multiViewArticleId001103000626=001103000626

On September 2nd, 2002 AP reported, that "...President Saddam Hussein gave his own explanation ... of why the United States was insisting on removing him from power -- because Iraq was preventing it from controlling Middle East oil. "America thinks it must control the world," he was quoted as saying to an envoy from Belarus. "America thinks if it controls the oil of the Middle East then it will control the world," said Saddam, whose comments were carried by the official Iraqi News Agency..." Source: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020902/ap_wo_en_po/iraq_saddam_1

On September 21st, 2002 Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., said President Bush's plans to invade Iraq are a conscious effort to distract public attention from growing problems at home. "This administration, all of a sudden, wants to go to war with Iraq," Byrd said. "The polls are dropping, the domestic situation has problems.... So all of a sudden we have this war talk, war fervor, the bugles of war, drums of war, clouds of war. "Don't tell me that things suddenly went wrong. Back in August, the president had no plans.... Then all of a sudden this country is going to war," Byrd told the Senate. The US Gov-Oil connection: According to oil industry executives and confidential United Nations records, however, Halliburton held stakes in two firms that signed contracts to sell more than $73 million in oil production equipment and spare parts to Iraq while Cheney was chairman and chief executive officer of the Dallas-based company. http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0209/21/cst.01.html MCINTYRE: Well, let me take you back about 20 years ago. The date, I believe, was December 20th, 1983, you were meeting with Saddam Hussein. I think we have some video of that, of that meeting. ...aided Saddam Hussein in his chemical weapons program

In late 2002, due to investigative journalist Marc Zumdeil, it came out, that almost 20 US companies aided Iraq with nuclear equipment. Among them, the Boca Raton, Florida firm PIT- just prior to Gulf War I -- with full knowledge of the United States Government." Source: Tom

Flocco (->) http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/c0/79/200210071107.377d7e54.html NOTE: PIT is only one block away from the AME building, where Bob Williams, the first anthrax victim worked. (See Anthrax)

Iraq on September 11th: Iraq thinks, that the United States planned the Sep11th attack themselves: "...Iraqi TV has commented on the first anniversary of the 11 September attacks in two special reports. State media said that the US itself planned last year's attacks on New York and Washington to justify its war against terror." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/middle_east/2251496.stm (Wednesday, 11 September, 2002, 14:22 GMT 15:22 UK)