War On Terror

WAR ON TERROR According to President Bush the War on Terror has 2 aims: 1. To shut down terrorist camps, disrupt terrorist plans, and bring terrorists to justice. 2. To prevent the terrorists and regimes who seek chemical, biological or nuclear weapons from threatening the United States and the world. The President's State of the Union Address January 29, 2002

1. Energy Dependency 2. Its running out 3. Power

Iraq has the worlds third-largest supply, of the world's most sought-after resource - Oil.

Dick Cheney, Former Vice President of the United States said in a speech in 1999, "The Middle East, with two-thirds of the oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize lies"

The interest in Iraq's oil wasn't new. A Pentagon document made the case that an "oil war" was a "legitimate" military option back in 1999--while Bill Clinton was still president.

OIL = ENERGY Oil is critically important to the global economy. • Oil accounts for 39% of global energy consumption, including 95 percent of energy used in ground, sea and air transportation. • Oil is used to make a range of products, like plastics and paints, that we take for granted today. War depends on Oil: "But just as important," as Saman Sepheri wrote in the International Socialist Review, "every tank, every airplane--from the B-52 to the stealth bomber--every Cruise missile and most warships in the world rely on oil to wage their terror."

The U.S. continues to claim the lion's share, accounting for 25 percent of oil consumption with just 5 percent of the world's population.

OIL = MONEY “The Bush administration are trying to set up one of the biggest swindles in history - the great Iraq oil robbery.” The new Iraqi government - under pressure from the U.S. who put them in power - have approved a law that would give Western oil companies ownership of two thirds of Iraq’s oil for the next 35 years. The oil companies are guaranteed super-profits Dick Cheney, Former Vice President of the United States said in a speech in 1999, "The Middle East, with two-thirds of the oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize lies"

OIL = POWER The U.S. government's thirst for oil isn't only about profits—or about securing supplies of a commodity that ordinary Americans depend on--but is also about power. In a world in which the wealth and strength of countries depends on access to oil, more control of oil for the U.S. means less control for its rivals.

The PNAC (Project for a New American Century) has admitted that the USA’s invasion of Iraq was not about Saddam Hussein or the ‘War on Terror’, rather it was about “maintaining the USA position as the world’s economic and military superpower”

In 1979 Saddam was an ally of the West, by 1999 the USA and UK were calling him a Terrorist and a Dictator. As part of the ‘Axis of Evil’ They claimed he had to be removed from power if the world, including Iraqi citizens, was to be free of Terror.

Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons against his own people. He was tried for the genocide of the Kurdish population in Kurds make up northern Iraq. Hussein launched chemical attacks against 40 20% of the Iraqi Kurdish villages and thousands of innocent civilians in people and mostly 1987-88, to silence his critics, and to test the his chemical live in Northern and biological weapons Iraq. INDICT, a group campaigning for Iraqi leaders to be tried for war crimes, says innocent civilians and suspected rebels were executed in huge numbers, and hospitals, schools, mosques, and thousands of escaping refugees were bombed and killed.

According to the USA, between 30,000 and 60,000 people were killed during these attacks.

1.5 million Kurds fled Iraq in fear of their lives

Two human rights groups, the International Federation of Human Rights League and the Coalition for Justice in Iraq released a report, accusing the Saddam Hussein regime of committing "massive and systematic" human rights violations, including: •Public beheadings of at least 130 women accused of being prostitutes. •Children, as young as 5 years old, were recruited into the military. Their parents were executed if they objected, and sometimes the children themselves were imprisoned. •Voting was restricted to only 8% of the population and government controlled all political parties. Therefore, it was impossible for Iraqi citizens to change their government. •Iraqi citizens were not allowed to demonstrate legally unless it was to express support for the government. •Police checkpoints stopped people from traveling abroad without government permission. Iraqi women could not travel outside of the country without the escort of a male relative

The USA didn't attack Iraq because Saddam is a brutal dictator and Human Rights abuser. He was a brutal dictator back in the days when the USA supported him in a war against Iran.

Historically, the United States has always been friendly with brutal dictators if we can make money out of it. Currently, there are other dictators in the world and we haven’t attacked them; Harley Sorensen, 2004

“Iraq could launch an attach in 45 minutes”

“WE “WEARE AREUNDER UNDERREAL REAL ANDAND PRESENT PRESENT DANGER FROM DANGER IRAQ’SFROM WMDs” IRAQ’S WMDs”

"Saddam Hussein's regime is despicable, he is developing weapons of mass destruction, and we cannot leave him doing so unchecked. "He is a threat to his own people and to the region and, if allowed to develop these weapons, a threat to us also." Tony Blair 10th April 2002

Mr Blix, who spent three years hunting for chemical, biological and nuclear weapons in Iraq said: "Iraq has, as they said, destroyed all of their weapons. I think it's unlikely that anything will be found." I think Saddam might have pretended he had the weapons to deter a military attack, Mr Blix added. "I mean, you can put up a sign on your door, 'Beware of the dog,' without having a dog,"

“WE ARE UNDER REAL AND PRESENT DANGER FROM IRAQ’S WMDs…

WE MUST GO TO WAR!”

Dick Cheney said: Victory in Iraq will strike at "the home of the terrorists who have had us under assault for many years, but most especially on 9/11."

A CIA report concluded that “Saddam Hussein did not possess stockpiles of illicit weapons at the time of the U.S. invasion in March 2003 and had not begun any program to produce them. The Iraq Survey Group report authored by Charles Duelfer, who advises the director of central intelligence on Iraqi weapons says Iraq's WMD program was destroyed in 1991 and Saddam ended Iraq's nuclear program after the 1991 Gulf War.

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• No evidence to link Saddam with September 11 attacks, Bush admits Oliver Burkeman in Washington Thursday September 18, 2003 The Guardian that President George Bush stated more bluntly than ever that there is no evidence to link Saddam Hussein to the terrorist attacks of September 11 2001 - despite 69% of Americans believing Saddam had a personal role, according to a recent Washington Post opinion poll.