US War on Iraq

We Finally Got Our Frankenstein... and He Was In a Spider Hole!	by Michael Moore	December 14, 2003
Thank God Saddam is finally back in American hands! He must have really missed us. Man, he sure looked bad! But, at least he got a free dental exam today. That's something most Americans can't get.
We allowed and encouraged American corporations to do business with Saddam in the 1980s. That's how he got chemical and biological agents so he could use them in chemical and biological weapons. Here's the list of some of the stuff we sent him (according to a 1994 U.S. Senate report):

America's Foreign Policy and the Sword of Empire	by Amir Butler	December 8, 2003
Yet seeking to prevent terrorism and promote democracy by vetoing the people's democratic aspirations is, like the strengthening of the West's totalitarian "allies" in the region, a self-fulfilling prophecy. On the day that Pearl Harbour was bombed, ex-President Herbert Hoover warned that as long as America continues "putting pins in rattlesnakes" it is only natural that one day those rattlesnakes would bite. 19 of those rattlesnakes attacked America on September 11; these same rattlesnakes kill and attack American soldiers every day in Iraq.

	US Defends Ban on Iraq Contracts		BBC News	December 11, 2003
	Washington has defended its decision to bar countries opposed to the Iraq war from bidding for prime reconstruction contracts worth $18.6bn. More Jobs for the Boys? You can share the loot if you're our friend.

The Professor Takes the Gloves Off	by Terrence McNally, AlterNet	November 12, 2003
..Paul Krugman has become the most prominent voice in the mainstream U.S. media to openly and repeatedly accuse George Bush of lying to the American people to sell budget-busting tax cuts and a pre-emptive and nearly unilateral war. More

'Collateral Damage' damning new report	from PMA	November 12, 2003
COMMENT By Larry Ross 20/12/03 A good comparison with this crime is the prosecution of World War II Nazi criminals for their aggressive war.
'Continuing Collateral Damage: The Health and Environmental Costs of War on Iraq 2003'

GEORGE BUSH, YOU CAN RUN BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE	by Dave Krieger	November 11, 2003
Mr. Bush, you can continue to deceive, twist and equivocate, but you can't hide the deaths and untold sorrow of yet another war -- unilateral, illegal, immoral and unnecessary.

Depleted Uranium - a crime in progress...	by Robert C. Koehler	November 10, 2003
The perfect weapon: Its damage lasts 4.5 billion years What's not to love, if you're the Pentagon? We pounded Saddam Hussein's army with depleted uranium ammo in Gulf War I and destroyed it on the ground. Maybe you've seen pictures of what we did to it; GIs cleaning up afterward coined the term ``crispy critters'' to describe the fried corpses they found inside Iraqi tanks and trucks.

	Nature of Resistance in Iraq	by Scott Ritter	November 10, 2003
	Defining the resistance in Iraq - it's not foreign and it's well prepared UN weapons inspector saw 'blueprints' for Monday's insurgency csmonitor.com

Watch Out What You Ask For	by Norman Solomon	November 8, 2003
This administration doesn't know how to run an occupation! The occupation of Iraq must be challenged not merely because the Bush administration miscalculated or because it's inept, but -- much more importantly -- because militarism and empire are reprehensible. Instead of ceding the media ground to those who demand a better occupation, we should widen the debate by giving voice to a very different vision. Jihad Unspin

Iraq Is Not America's To Sell	by Naomi Klein, The Guardian	November 7, 2003
International law is unequivocal - Paul Bremer's economic reforms are illegal
Bring Halliburton home. Cancel the contracts. Ditch the deals. Rip up the rules. Those are just a few of the suggestions for slogans that could help unify the growing movement against the occupation of Iraq. So far, activist debates have focused on whether the demand should be for a complete withdrawal of troops, or for the United States to cede power to the United Nations.

	Spinning the War; Bombs in Baghdad		by Mike Whitney	November 1 , 2003
	Still, with 4 bombs going off in one day causing the deaths of 42 people and 200 more injured, it’s doubtful that even the obsequious American press will succeed in painting a rosy picture of progress Baghdad. For one thing, the rocket attack on the al-Rashid Hotel that sent the intrepid deputy defense Secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, scurrying to the Baghdad Airport, occurred within the security barrier, the military cordon that protects America’s highest-ranking dignitaries. This suggests that there are collaborators working from within the system. This is undoubtedly the worst-case scenario for those trying to fend off future attacks.

U.S. contractors form shadowy army	DND Canada News Release	October 29, 2003
Critics say increased role of quasi-soldiers damages accountability. Several have been killed recently! By paying civilians to handle military tasks, the Bush administration is freeing up U.S. troops to fight. But the use of contractors also hides the true costs of war.

A Holocaust in the Making	by Paul Craig Roberts	October 27 , 2003
When it became obvious that the neoconservatives would succeed in turning the "war against terrorism" into war against the Muslim Middle East, I said that the consequences would be the return of the draft or US use of nuclear weapons. Bush administration neoconservatives have concluded that reinstating the military draft would incite more opposition than inaugurating a new weapons program to produce "useable nukes."

	1,200 weapons inspectors spent 90 days in Iraq.	By Rupert Cornwell and Paul Waugh	October 3, 2003
	The exercise cost $300m. And the number of weapons found? 0 Five months after the end of the war in Iraq, a CIA adviser has admitted that his 1,200-strong team of inspectors has discovered none of Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction.

Comment	by Larry Ross	October 26, 2003
QUESTIONS THAT WON'T BE ASKED ABOUT IRAQ	by Ron Paul	September 10, 2002
Soon we hope to have hearings on the pending war with Iraq. I am concerned there are some questions that won¡t be asked - and maybe will not even be allowed to be asked. Here are some questions I would like answered by those who are urging us to start this war. Project Freedom

Comment	by Larry Ross	October 26, 2003
Backward Christian soldier: An open letter to the Christian General	by Jim Wallis
The kingdom of God doesn't endorse the principalities and powers of nation-states, armies, and the ideologies of empire; but rather calls them all into question. more>> Sojourners

Comment on items sent from Abolition Caucus	By Larry Ross	October 25 , 2003
Israel/US vs Palestine & The Middle East Both Israel and US are the only nuclear powers in the Mid-East. Israel is stealing land from Palestine, building Israeli settlements and huge walls through the middle of the stolen land in defiance of many UN resolutions and assassinating people they label as "terrorists". They have reached out and bombed well within Syria, on the grounds of "attacking terrorists or terrorist camps".
Items on: India/Pakistan/Saudia The Times of India Online Oct 23 2003 Saudis may buy Pak nukes Indian Express/PTI Thurs Oct23, 2003 Pak, Saudi ink secret nuclear deal: Report VoA 22 Oct Saudi Arabia, Pakistan to Cooperate on Nuclear Technology Indian Express Oct 23 India's nukes likely to spark arms race: US body India, Pakistan have over 80 nuclear weapons: US report

One, two, three, what are they fighting for?	by Robert Fisk, The Independent,	October 24, 2003
The worst problem facing US forces in Iraq may not be armed resistance but a crisis of morale. Robert Fisk reports on a near-epidemic of indiscipline, suicides and loose talk. ......Weaned on this kind of nonsense, however, is it any surprise that American troops in Iraq understand neither their war nor the people whose country they are occupying? Terrorists or freedom fighters? What's the difference? http://www.vicpeace.org

	PNA Report 103.2				October 24, 2003
	An Occupied Country, September 29, 2003 US soldiers bulldoze farmers' crops, October 12, 2003 Postcards in support of Ahmed Zaoui,

WORLD URANIUM WEAPONS CONFERENCE	from NukeWatch	October 23, 2003
The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War
Representatives from 20 nations, 5 continents, 200 participant, 35 speakers. Dr. Souad Al-Azzawi, received the internationally recognized “Nuclear Free Future Award” and prize of 10,000 Euros on October 12, just prior to the Conference

IRAQ AID FUND SCANDAL	Sky News	October 23, 2003
"This is Iraqi money. The people of Iraq must know where it is going." At least £3.1bn has been passed to the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), leading UK aid agency Chrisitan Aid calculates.

Charity Says Iraqi Billions Missing	by Shaista Aziz ljazeera.Net	October 23, 2003
A leading British charity has accused American and British administrators in Iraq of failing to account for $4 billion in oil revenue.

IRAQ AID FUND SCANDAL	Sky News	October 23, 2003
"This is Iraqi money. The people of Iraq must know where it is going." At least £3.1bn has been passed to the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), leading UK aid agency Chrisitan Aid calculates.
Iraq: the missing billions Transition and transparency in post-war Iraq	*$$$$$$$$$hame*	October 23, 2003

WAR PROFITEERS	Agribusiness Examiner	October 20, 2003
Jobs for the Good Ol' Boys - But Not Iraqis! Even though seven million Iraqis are unemployed, U.S. sub-contractors are rebuilding the Iraqi infrastructure with cheap migrant labor from South Asia. The use of Asian laborers is at odds with President Bush's emphasis on the importance of Iraqis taking on the job themselves.

Remarks by Senator Robert C. Byrd (USA) on Iraq War and Lies	by Sen.Robert C. Byrd	October 17, 2003
I cannot stand by and continue to watch our grandchildren become increasingly burdened by the billions that fly out of the Treasury for a war and a policy based largely on propaganda and prevarication. We are borrowing $87 billion to finance this adventure in Iraq. The President is asking this Senate to pay for this war with increased debt, a debt that will have to be paid by our children and by those same troops that are currently fighting this war. I cannot support outlandish tax cuts that plunge our country into potentially disastrous debt while our troops are fighting and dying in a war that the White House chose to begin.

Hapless Prisoners in a Black Hole - the Disgrace that is Guantanamo	by Elainne Cassell	October 14, 2003
'' I started to write about the disgraceful situation in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Friday morning. I had read about the International Red Cross's condemnation of the Bush administration's continued detention of 650 or more prisoners, some of them juveniles, captured in Afghanistan two years ago. They have been held in cages on the American military base there, without attorneys, with little access to family, and without any charges being placed against them.

Selective Intelligence on Road to Baghdad

by Alessandra Stanley

October 9, 2003

What distinguished the Bush administration, "Frontline" contends, was the openness of its arrogance and the magnitude of its policy shift — sending more than 200,000 American troops to invade a Muslim country and recreate it along American democratic lines. New York Times
Cost - $100 billion + $4 billion a month

The president's real goal in Iraq A must re-read - so true

by JAY BOOKMAN ICH

September 29, 2002

	Follow links for greater depth. The official story on Iraq has never made sense. The connection that the Bush administration has tried to draw between Iraq and al-Qaida has always seemed contrived and artificial. In fact, it was hard to believe that smart people in the Bush administration would start a major war based on such flimsy evidence. The pieces just didn't fit. Something else had to be going on; something was missing.

	Kennedy Lashes Out on Iraq	by Carl Hulse New York Times	September 27, 2003
	on the Senate floor, he said, "The tragedy is that our troops are paying with their lives because the administration failed to prepare a plan to win the peace."

	THIS WAR ON TERRORISM IS BOGUS		by Michael Meacher	September 6, 2003
	The 9/11 attacks gave the US an ideal pretext to use force to secure its global domination. Massive attention has now been given - and rightly so - to the reasons why Britain went to war against Iraq. But far too little attention has focused on why the US went to war, and that throws light on British motives too.

See also Neocons See Iran Behind Shi'ite Uprising
September Surprise	by Bill Berkowitz	September 5, 2003
Last May, President Bush made his now-famous -- and outrageously false -- statement to a Polish television station: "We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories.... But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them."

Who's Sordid Now?

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September 30, 2003

Cronyism is an important factor in our Iraqi debacle. It's not just that reconstruction is much more expensive than it should be. The really important thing is that cronyism is warping policy: by treating contracts as prizes to be handed to their friends, administration officials are delaying Iraq's recovery, with potentially catastrophic consequences.

PM's office exaggerated Iraq threat, inquiry hears.	From ABC News	August, 2003
A former intelligence analyst has accused the Prime Minister's office of exaggerating the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. The claim has been made to a federal parliamentary inquiry investigating the accuracy of intelligence about Iraq's banned weapons. Andrew Wilkie quit the Office of National Assessments in March because he believed the Government was deliberately misleading the public about the case for war.

	IRAQI CITIES "HOT" WITH DEPLETED URANIUM		by Sara Flounders	August 16, 2003
	Letter to Helen Clark and other MPs from Bill Watson - *send yours!* Has U.S. use of depleted-uranium weapons turned Iraq into a radioactive danger area for both Iraqis and occupation troops? This question has already had serious consequences. In hot spots in downtown Baghdad, reporters have measured radiation levels that are 1,000 to 1,900 times higher than normal background radiation levels.

	Sleepwalking To Extinction		by George Monbiot	August 11, 2003
	Comment by Larry Ross Something about the human mind appears to prevent us from grasping the reality of climate change. We live in a dreamworld. With a small, rational part of the brain, we recognise that our existence is governed by material realities, and that, as those realities change, so will our lives.

	Congressional Report: No 9/11-Iraq Link	July 24, 2003
	...Once it was determined that the inquiry would be made public they fought very hard to keep huge portions of it classified. In fact, even now, huge portions remain extremely secret. http://www.warblogging.com/

Pilger on the "War"	by John Pilger	June 19, 2003
Once more, we hear that America is being "sucked into a quagmire". The rapacious adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan are going badly wrong. America's two "great victories" since 11 September 2001 are unravelling.

So Why Did America Attack Iraq?	DNC Women's Vote Center	June 15, 2003
America and the World Need to Know the Truth
.Republicans refused to open an investigation into the intelligence used by President Bush to claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).

'They impeach murderers, don't they?'	by Ted Rall	June 13, 2003
Topic: Commander-In-Thief Bush Must Step Down George W. Bush told us that Iraq and Al Qaeda were working together. They weren't. He repeatedly implied that Iraq had had something to do with 9/11. It hadn't. He claimed to have proof that Saddam Hussein possessed banned weapons of mass destruction. He didn't. As our allies watched in horror and disgust, Bush conned us into a one-sided war of aggression that killed and maimed thousands of innocent people, destroyed billions of dollars in Iraqi infrastructure, cost tens of billions of dollars, cost the lives of American soldiers, and transformed our international image as the world's shining beacon of freedom into that of a marauding police state. Presidents Nixon and Clinton rightly faced impeachment for comparatively trivial offenses; if we hope to restore our nation's honor, George W. Bush too must face a president's gravest political sanction.

Playwright Pinter blasts 'Nazi America' and 'deluded idiot' Blair	The Guardian	June 11, 2003
The playwright Harold Pinter last night likened George W Bush's administration to Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, saying the US was charging towards world domination while the American public and Britain's "mass-murdering" prime minister sat back and watched.

DU Info Bulletin no. 72 and News		April 23, 2003
One of the enduring mysteries of the last gulf war	Susan Spencer, CBS	April 9, 2003
Scientists reject line on depleted uranium	Paul Brown, Guardian	April 19 2003
Depleted uranium casts shadow over peace in Iraq	Duncan Graham-Rowe	April 15, 2003
Long-Term Damage from a Short-Term War Leaving a Mess in Mesopotamia	Solana Pyne	April 16-22, 2003
U.S. should end its use of depleted-uranium weapons	Ginger Perlman	April 16, 2003
Nuclear "bunker busters" sought: Move signals big shift in U.S. weapon strategy	Dan Stober, Mercury News	April 23, 2003
Death by DU Depleted uranium: A deadly tool in the U.S. arsenal	Beth Hawkins Minneapolis City Pages	April 23, 2003
Scientists debate depleted uranium weapons' possible contamination of Iraqi civilians	Joseph B. Verrengia Associated Press	April 21, 2003
Depleted-uranium weapons should be banned	Glen Milner
"Depleted uranium will affect Iraq for generations to come"	Prof Doug Rokke, Aljazeera	April 15, 2003

	Times on Line- Iraq See also Iraqi Journal
	Do You Really Want the Truth About 9/11 and Election Fraud - - See OIL EMPIRE for much more information

	Bush's Impeachable Offenses: Lying & Racketeering		June 15, 2003
	Republicans Vs. The United States Armed Forces: The Sequel. American-led teams have not located either WMD weapons or the "re-built factories" that allegedly produced them.

	SECRET CABAL WHICH SPUN FOR BLAIR			June 8, 2003
	BRITAIN ran a covert 'dirty tricks' operation designed specifically to produce misleading intelligence that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction to give the UK a justifiable excuse to wage war on Iraq.

	THE DETERRENCE DELUSION			April 11, 2003
	Last February, Al-Saadi took Colin Powell to task for his allegations, presented solemnly to the Security Council, concerning persuasive "evidence" of Iraq's WMD. Al-Saadi audaciously, but confidently, claimed that some of the evidence cited was fabricated. And sure enough, it turned out a month later -- and the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed this -- that the "evidence", for example, of Iraq's attempts to buy uranium from Niger, indeed involved despicable, crude forgery.

	WHY ARE AMERICANS KILLING JOURNALISTS		by Robert Fisk	April 9 & 10, 2003
	First the Americans killed the correspondent of al-Jazeera yesterday and wounded his cameraman. Then, within four hours, they attacked the Reuters television bureau in Baghdad, killing one of its cameramen and a cameraman for Spain's Tele 5 channel and wounding four other members of the Reuters staff.

	US Fumbling Postwar Plan		Hussein Ibish, LA Times	April 9, 2003
	If concern is growing that ideological convictions at the Defense Department resulted in costly miscalculations regarding the war in Iraq, even greater alarm is warranted by glaring missteps in the preparation for what comes after the war.

	GLOBAL MOVEMENT: SECOND SUPERPOWER		by John Pilger	April 05, 2003
	"We See Too Much, We Know Too Much. That's Our Best Defense" An American Marine murders a woman because she happens to be standing next to a man in a uniform. "I'm sorry,' he says, "but the chick got in the way.'

	Practice to Deceive		Joshua Micah Marshall	April 2003
	Chaos in the Middle East is not the Bush hawks' nightmare scenario--it's their plan. Ever since the neo-cons burst upon the public policy scene 30 years ago, their movement has been a marriage of moral idealism, military assertiveness, and deception.

They do not know what they are doing or why they are doing it	by Robert Fisk	March 31, 2003
Every day public statements on the war are made with great bravado by British and US leaders. A day later most of them turn out to be inaccurate or untrue. Political leaders are understandably evasive about the detailed military strategy, but these evasions and inaccuracies have nothing to do with the movements of the troops.

The Meaning of Victory	by David Krieger	March 31, 2003
“Day by day we are moving closer to Baghdad. Day by day we are moving closer to victory.” George W. Bush Day by day we are killing more Iraqi civilians. One day US forces bomb a marketplace, killing 62 civilians.

	IPPNW Warns of Nuclear Bunker Busters Radiation Victims		by David Crary	March 28, 2003
	The IPPNW study concludes that even a very low-yield nuclear EPW exploded in or near an urban environment such as Baghdad will inevitably disperse radioactive dirt and debris over several square kilometers and could result in fatal doses of radiation to tens of thousands of victims.

	Peace Coalitions Media Challenge Three Week Action Plan : March 24, 2003 ? April 11, 2003			March 24, 2003
	Read about the misuse of US media for promotion of Bush War & US Empire Policies Ideas for protests for individuals and groups

	INNER WORKINGS OF WAR PROPAGANDA MACHINE	by John R. McArthur		March 21-23, 2003
	The first time that a President Bush sold a war against Saddam Hussein, the PR package came wrapped in the flesh and blood of babies torn from incubators.

SPEECH TO THE NATION	by George W. Bush	March 18, 2003
JUSTIFYING US WAR ON IRAQ	......More

THE NUCLEAR DANGERS FROM THE WAR ON IRAQ	by Larry Ross	March 15, 2003
Instead of deterrence and last resort, the Bush doctrines call for integrating nuclear weapons with conventional weapons as one more military option, thus greatly lowering the threshold for actual use. The US is also making new nuclear weapons called "bunker-busters" as well as micro nuclear weapons. Iraq may be only be the first of seven named nations..

	US-UK Lies on Iraq Exposed	by John Pilger	March 13, 2003
	The Blair Government has known, almost from the day it came to office in 1997, that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction were almost certainly destroyed following the Gulf War.

	Pull the Plug on Armageddon	by B.Z. Botani	March 6, 2003
	Millions of Lives on the Line.................... This isn't warfare. This is mass destruction, holocaust, aggressive and murderous imperialism.

What About the Iraqi Children?	by Charlotte Aldebron	March 3, 2003
If I am lucky, I will be killed instantly, like the three hundred children murdered by your "smart" bombs in a Baghdad bomb shelter on February 16, 1991. The blast caused a fire so intense that it flash-burned outlines of those children and their mothers on the walls; you can still peel strips of blackened skin - souvenirs of your victory - from the stones.

	13 MYTHS ABOUT THE CASE FOR WAR IN IRAQ	Rich Cowan	March 1, 2003
	This is an all-new fact sheet... that 75 people contributed to! It focuses on the developments/debates of the past 3 weeks. Shorter versions (without references) are on the web site. original

	US Diplomat Resigns Due to War on Iraq	by Elaine Dyer, NY Times	February 27, 2003
	I am resigning because I have tried and failed to reconcile my conscience with my ability to represent the current U.S. Administration.

	Coalition of the willing? Make that war criminals	Sydney Morning Herald	February 26, 2003
	A pre-emptive strike on Iraq would constitute a crime against humanity, write 43 experts on international law and human rights. The initiation of a war against Iraq by the self-styled "coalition of the willing" would be a fundamental violation of international law. International law recognises two bases for the use of force.

US INTELLIGENCE ON WMD IN IRAQ	by Larry Ross	February 24, 2003
....."So far as I know, the US has not provided the UN with any intelligence with which the UN was able to prove the US case. That is why I believe the senior UN inspector referred to US intelligence as "garbage".

U.S. Weighs Tactical Nuclear Strike on Iraq	by Paul Richter	January 25, 2003
For what one defense analyst says is a worst-case scenario, planners are studying the use of atomic bombs on deeply buried targets. WASHINGTON -- As the Pentagon continues a highly visible buildup of troops and weapons in the Persian Gulf, it is also quietly preparing for the possible use of nuclear weapons in a war against Iraq, according to a report by a defense analyst.

The Nuclear Option in Iraq	by William M. Arkin	January 25, 2003
The U.S. has lowered the bar for using the ultimate weapon.
WASHINGTON -- One year after President Bush labeled Iraq, Iran and North Korea the "axis of evil," the United States is thinking about the unthinkable: It is preparing for the possible use of nuclear weapons against Iraq.

	ZONES OF ANARCHY	by Thomas Homer-Dixon	January 5, 2003
	Pakistan balances on a knife's edge between simmering unease and total upheaval. It's the country to watch in 2003. Anti-American sentiment is surging. Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, is already having difficulty justifying his country's cooperation with the U.S. war against terrorism.

	THE CASE AGAINST WAR WITH IRAQ	by General Peter Gration	January 2, 2003
	General Peter Gration was chief of the Australian Defence Force during the Gulf War. "Australia has no good reason for war and many against. There are better ways," writes Peter Gration.

	IRAQI CHILDREN SACRIFICE	by Emma Macdonald	December 16, 2002
	"Demonstration that war involves a bloody sacrifice of Iraq's children. A dramatic demonstration to the Australian people and government that Australian approval of war with Iraq makes them complicit with the murder of thousands of Iraq's children. Is toadying to George Bush worth this?"

Let's Not Forget:
Bush Planned Iraq 'Regime Change' Before Becoming President	by Neil Mackay	September 15, 2002

	Never has journalism been so important, yet so much of the media is little more than propaganda of great power. That's why Green Left Weekly is so crucial" - John Pilger, Journalist and friend of Green Left Weekly

	UN Atomic Chief Again Warns US About Iraq	by Walter Pincus	May 20, 2002
	The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency warned the United States for the third time yesterday of the danger of radioactive contamination in Iraq because of looting at nuclear sites and called on the Bush administration to allow his safety and emergency response teams to enter the country.