The Real Reason for the Iraq War

As reported for the first time yesterday, March 6, 2014, Rachel Maddow, a commentator from MSNBC, outlined what was to be the real reason for the Iraq War, in her commentary "Why We Did It". People just need to know the truth. Who would have thought that the story would begin with the activity in N. Korea. As reported, on October 9, 2006, seismic recorders recorded what was thought to be an earthquake, located in North Korea. What it turned out to be was an underground nuclear test by North Korea. Our secret intelligence was caught off guard, as North Korea just set off its first nuclear bomb. It is important to note that President Bush didn't see a need to disarm that country,  as there was no move by the U.S. to do so. Even after the actions of of Osama bin Laden for the 9/11 attack on Sept. 11 2001, the United States did not directly go and seek out whom was considered now the number one terrorist in the world. The President and Vice President repeatedly said that they could not find the very elusive terrorist.
Instead, the United States under false pretenses made a premeditated attack on Iraq. So what was the reason? Was Osama bin Laden in Iraq? What people didn't recognize is the fact that even prior to Sept. 11 2001, the United States led by George W. Bush had been working on something totally outside the scope of seeking out terrorists, even though central intelligence reports showed increased activity by Osama bin Laden, and intelligence gathered that Osama bin Laden was planning an attack on America.
The President of the United States, along with the Vice-President of the United States, Dick Cheney, were more interested in Iraq, and purposely hid secrets concerning their real objectives for attacking Iraq. The Secretary of Defense at the time Donald Rumsfeld, serving under George W. Bush, purposely hid secrets from the United States Congress, along with the President and Vice President. What they claimed was the immediate issue was the fact that Saddam Hussein, the reining president of the time in Iraq, was producing and stockpiling weapons of mass destruction. Was that true? It was proven after the U.S. attack on Iraq that Saddam Hussein did not have any weapons of mass destruction. So what just happened was that the United States started a war under false pretense and went through one of the longest wars in U.S. history.
So what is this hidden secret? Behind closed doors, not even privy to the U.S. Congress, the President, Vice President and Secretary of Defense along with a few select others who are not important to this story, were secretly figuring out a way to take over the Iraq oil fields. The very rich reserves of oil in the country of Iraq proved to be of very high interest to oil billionaire George W. Bush from Texas. An oil company called Halliburton, had two major headquarters, one in Dubai, and another in Houston, Texas. David J Lesar has been CEO of Halliburton (HAL) for 12 years. Mr. Lesar has been with the company for 19 years. The 59 year old executive ranks 8 within Oil & Gas Operations. His prior boss was Dick Cheney. So here you have it, two Texas Oil men, George W. Bush and David Lesar worked in Texas with oil. In September of 2000, the price of oil kept climbing, affecting the United States, especially with global energy demand on the rise. The U.S. dependence of foreign oil hit an all-time high. Just before becoming the President, George W. Bush was interviewed and ran for President with the premise that foreign oil was going to be a big problem for his administration. The President met in Houston, and plans to take over Iraqi oil were made. The President had secret meetings with Haliburton, just before the insurgence into Iraq. Not known at the time by the American people, plans were being made to secure oil fields in that country.
When George W. Bush became President, he immediately began to try and find a way to work on the foreign oil issue. He determined that what better way to get allot of oil if the United States were to take it from Iraq. Not long after his election as President, the attack of the World Trade Center took place on Sept. 11 2001, and now the President  found a reason to enter Iraq and get approval from Congress to do so. His claim, to attack Saddam Hussein, because he had weapons of mass destruction. What we know now is that this was a lie, as he involved the United States in a foreign war. He became directly responsible for thousands of U.S. lives lost on foreign soil. The sad thing about the war is that we were not hunting for Osama bin Laden, but used Saddam Hussein as a scapegoat with weapons of mass destruction, just so that we could enter Iraq and secure the oil fields. Ultimately by securing the oil fields, the production of oil greatly increased from Iraq. But was it worth the invasion of Iraq, and the loss of so many American lives, along with the innocent citizens of this country that were caught up in a war started by the United States? The unnecessary loss of American soldiers lives because of President Bush's selfish and greedy interests makes him directly responsible for the lives of the thousands of dead Americans. Has the cost of oil gone down because of the attack on Iraq and increased production from the oil fields? Absolutely not, and in matter of fact, the oil prices have continued to go up.
President Bush claims that history will judge him over time in a more favorable light. He doesn't seem concerned on what people think of him now. All that I plan to do about it is publish articles like this to help bring to light what exactly happened during the Presidency of George W. Bush and how bad I consider him for America.
One thing is certain. If Democratic contender for President, Al Gore was to become president instead of George W. Bush, the Iraq war would have never happened. Thousands of American soldiers would be living today and the United States wouldn't have been the reason for so much death and destruction in the foreign country of Iraq. I say this because no American president of that time would have started a war in a foreign country just to secure oil fields. The United States was not being threatened by Saddam Hussein by weapons of mass destruction.

Immediately below is a video clip, narrated by Rachel Maddow of MSNBC in her commentary that was aired yesterday on her news station.



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A Gread President He is NOT - George W. Bush is Already Judged

In a conversation with CNN just prior to the dedication of his new Presidential library, George W. Bush still does not openly admit that he really made mistakes starting the IRAQI war, nor does he believe that he was ultimately responsible for not supporting help and rescue plans during Hurricane Katrina that devastated New Orleans. Here is a man that follows the footsteps of his father, George H.W. Bush and became the 43rd President of the United States, and he now says in the CNN interview "History will ultimately judge the decisions that were made for Iraq and I'm just not going to be around to see the final verdict.". Then he says, "In other words, I'll be dead.". Also, stepping  back when he was president, George W. Bush staunchly supported his own form of terrorism, as he practiced a method called 'water-boarding' on his Iraqi prisoners. Everyone knows that the presidency of George W. Bush was a failure, and his right wing agenda and policies crippled the country, and during his two terms as president, he started a systematic bankruptcy of the country. The U.S. government, who had a surplus of money during the presidency of Bill Clinton, quickly evaporated when George W. Bush became president, and since, the deficit has grown to unbelievable proportions. Of course, the Republicans blame the Democrats for the money deficits, because President Obama had no choice than to spend money to try and bring the country back together again when in fact the country technically entered another depression era during the Bush presidency.
Appearently, George W. Bush doesn't read this blog, and if he has, he should realize that authors like me will never let the atrocities such as the ones he made as president ever go away. I'm not waiting for him to be judged after he is dead, as he puts it, to let people know how disastrous of a president he truly was.
What ultimately upset me about this man is that he threw the country in a war under false pretenses, explaining to the country that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Of course as we know now, this is totally untrue. There never was one bit of evidence turned up in Iraq during the U.S. occupation in that country that proved at the slighted possibility that there ever was weapons of mass destruction in that country.
Thousands of American soldiers died in a war that they never should have participated in. Still George W. Bush doesn't feel guilty for their lives, and doesn't admit to wrongs. He blames the actions that were taken to invade Iraq due to inaccurate reports given to him by the CIA and FBI. But the fact is, George W. Bush knew there were no weapons of mass destruction there. His right hand man, the vice president of the United states at the time was Dick Chaney, and even still today, the vice-president openly admits that attacking Iraq was the right thing to do.
So it begs the question, why were we ever in Iraq? Cheney's answer is that we belonged in Iraq to get rid of Saddam Hussein, a president who had weapons of mass destruction, even though to this day that there never was an ounce of proof that there ever was weapons of mass destruction.
For the dedication today, accompanying George W. Bush and his father H.W., Presidents Obama, Carter and Clinton were on hand for the dedication for the George W. Bush library. 
I have just one thing to thank President George W. Bush for, and of course it is not for his service as president. I think that most will agree it's a presidency that everyone would like to forget. But for me, waking up to the extreme right wing thinking and ideology of Republicans and of George W. and Dick Cheney during his two terms of office, spurred me into openly supporting Democratic President Barrack Obama as I started writing the blog "Obama in the White House",immediately after Barrack's election in 2008.
As the saying goes, time fly's when you are having fun, and I just hope that someday I would soon forget the likings of such a failed president, George W. Bush.  

Bush's Book "Decision Points" May Put Him in Prison For Crimes Against Humanity

President George W. in an attempt to have himself re-habilitate his character in time, wrote his memoirs called 'Decision Points', but because of the book, it may seem to be just a matter of time that the book may be responsible for him going into prison for crimes against humanity.

The following is a transcript of the video below, and I suggest that you read this very closely. If you don't believe what you read, just listen the video and then speculate of what may be the future of George W. Bush.

Here is the transcript of the video in its entirety.....

Policies changed significantly, especially during the George Bush era, especially following the 911 attacks. After staying out of the limelight since leaving office almost 2 years ago, America's 43rd President is now having his own say on his time in office. In his memoirs 'Decision Points', he reveals his thoughts on the most historic and contraversial parts of his presidency. Now to discuss those, let's now talk to the former Democrat member of Congress, Tom Andrews.


Thank you very much for joining us...  Now Tom in his book, George Bush said that the invasion of Iraq was right, because it was about changing the regime, persuing weapons of mass destruction. What do you think about the strength of that case?


Answer by Tom Andrews:  Well, there is no strength, I mean, you know it is rather extraodinary. Former President Bush was on national television last night here in the United States, and he said his lowest moment, the lowest of the low, as he described it, was when a rap artist, Kenya West, accused him about not caring about black people, during the Katrina debocle, and the failure of the U.S. government to respond to that hurricane disaster. When in fact, you have a war against Iraq, a violation of international law, an invasion that killed thousands of American soldiers, over 100,000 Iraqis, all to go after weapons of mass destruction that did not exist. And to make it worse, you had American soldiers, 700 of them lost their lives in Iraq, because in this war of choice, this administration didn't think it was important enough to provide them with the protective armor, that if they had it, they would be alive today. And in this interview, based on this book, the President said his lowest moment was when he was criticized by an American rap artist for his handling of the Katrina disaster. Um, I don't think that anyone buys this. The Iraq war, a vast number of Americans believe that now it was a tragic mistake, and the fact that it was done in a way that it was done, makes it even worse. 

Well, he seems that he is trying to highlight this Katrina incident, and he admits to some of the mistakes made during his presidency, and this is appearently something that he has kept in his mind. Do you welcome his honesty on this, and why do you think he is bringing this up as his priority?

Answer by Tom Andrews: Well, I think what he is trying to do is to re-habilitate himself. and as we saw in the last election, members of his own political party, ran away from George W. Bush. He has a very low opinion rating, certainly one of the lowest, in fact THE lowest of opinion ratings from Americans of any president  in modern American history, and I think he is trying to spin his administration and his legacy, perhaps to get a better judgement from historians that what the American people are giving him now. But even in those instances in which he admits wrong-doing, let's take Katrina for example, what he admits to doing wrong was not stopping in New Orleans on the flight back from his ranch in Texas from his vacation, on his way to Washington. That's what he thinks is his biggest mistake with respect to Katrina, and then telling the man in charge that he was doing a hell of a job. I mean, this doesn't even begin to recognize the fundamental failure of leadership, of competency, and of ability to set priorities that this administration failed to do in New Orleans, and certainly in Iraq, and to mention only two.

Ok, now let's go on to a very sensitive point on the interrogation of terror suspects. Bush says legal advisors told him that simulated drowning was legal, and he believes that it helped prevent terror attacks. And now do you agree that this method can be justified if it helps save lives?


Answer by Tom Andrews: No. First of all, it is illegal. You can get an attorney to say anything you want, but the fact of the matter is, it is illegal. Secondly, it violates international law, it violates the Geneva Convention, and thirdly, it puts American soldiers at risk. So when they find themselves, God forgive in enemy's hands, then they are faced with the prospect of the same treatment given to them, that George Bush was authorizing, given to those the United States  brought into custody. So whether you look at it from the point of view of international law, or the point of view of the.......(The audio disappears at this point in the video. There were 17 seconds left to the video)

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George W. Bush - Not a Great President - Guilty of Crimes in 2 Wars - over 100,000 Civilian Iraqi's DEAD

Putting George W's book aside for one moment, I would like to make some comments which are presented here in this article which happens to be my opinion and beliefs of others, with proof that these statements presented as stated are accurate. The following information are reasons why I am writing this blog and have high interest in what George W. publishes, knowing full well that some of the material in the book has been nothing short of plagiarism. At the same time, I would truly like to give him credit for some of the things he has done for the good as President.  Presidents in modern time for whatever reason, seem to be either really great, or really bad. Ronald Reagan was considered a very good president, and he was liked accross the isle, as Democrats did their part in his re-election. But when they go sour, they really go sour. In most recent times, you can reflect on Richard Nixon and now George W. Bush. Isn't it interesting that only the Republican Presidents seemed to have gone sour here. But George H.W. seems to have had allot more sureity in his decisions as President, and they never seemed rash. But the same cannot be said for his son George W. It is a downright shame that this president, George W, could falsely make claims to the American people that Sudaam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, and then come to find out that it wasn't true. To top it off, there is undenyable evidence that he knew that there were no weapons of mass destruction, and he was told by National Intelliegence that there were no weapons of the kind. But instead of informing the people of these facts, he proceeded to tell the people of the United States that there were weapons of mass destruction present in Iraq. He railroaded his own Congress into believing that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and had the resolution passed to attack Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Granted, these two countries of Afghanistan and Iraq are two of the most disgusting countries on earth, with North Korea not falling too far behind. But every country is made up of citizens of their own country. They seem to become the innocent victims of war. Prior to the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, there was proof of terrorist organizations running rampant, lead by the extreme leader of Osama bin Laden, now appearently in hiding in Afghanistan.
As of November 21, 2010, there has been 4,329 deaths since the war began on March 19, 2003, with 3,497 dead in combat. Since George W. announced that the mission in Iraq was accomplished on May 1, 2003, 4,290 soldiers have been killed with 3,389 in combat.Since Obama has become Commander and Chief, there has been 201 total soldier deaths with only 92 in combat. Since Operation New Dawn, there has been only a total of 11 deaths with only 3 in combat. Last but not least, are the figures of Americans wounded in Iraq. The total wounded is 32,929, which is the official count, with 100,000 estimated and not confirmed. This is just the American side of the tragedy.
On the civilian side of this war, it is estimated that 100,000 citizens of Iraq have been killed since the U.S.-led invasion began. These civilian deaths were not necessary but tragic. The devestation brought to Iraq by George W and his partner in crime Dick Cheney are disgusting to say the least. It is one thing that a past president named Richard Nixon was involved in the WaterGate scandal, but there were no innocent lives lost. It is another thing when a president brings harms way to his soldiers and is responsible for the deaths of a million people. I come to this conclusion that he is responsible because the war was not truly justified, as there were no weapons of mass destruction, and the President knew of that fact. He was already responsible for thousands of lives before he invaded Iraq, as there was intelligence reports that George w. ignored his own central intelligence agency that the country was in danger of such an invasion that happened on 911 a week before the attack. George W. just dismissed it. Because of his failure to act, there were a total of 2,996 deaths on September 11, 2001 in New York City and at the Pentigon. A total of 19 hijackers carrying out the attack using U.S. Commercial Jets intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. The third airliner crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C. A total of 183 people died in the Pentagon attack. A fourth plane crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. All the people in all of the planes have perished. Innocent firefighters totaling 343 and police officers totaling 60 also perished.
With all of this destruction and death, George W. claims that the attacks were justified. In my mind, the failure to protect the country from this type of attack and human suffering from two wars that should never have happened is a crime in itself. If crimes have been committed by George W.
It is my intention by writing this blog to actually get down to the truths and lies about George W. and to inform the readers of this blog of the facts that many still do not know. Many of the facts that I expected to see in the George W's book are just missing. Again, George W. had deceived his readers and the country of the facts, just as he had deceived his country with facts that were just not true before he started two wars. But, he hasn't fooled me.

Anticipation While Waiting for the 'Decision Points' Book to Arrive

As I wait for my copy of 'Decision Points' to arrive in the mail, I know from what reviews I've already read that I will be fairly active on this blog. Again, this blog will portray the facts with proven documents to back up each individual claim that I make. My goal is to review each and every page hopefully not to just criticize or condemn the prior president, but to agree with him when it is justified according to proven facts.
People will judge him from now until eternity. Already since he left office, his popularity has increased. He has stated in recent interviews that being popular is not important to him, likewise being unpopular is also not important. In other words, the prior Republican President doesn't really care what people think about him. He also believes that not all the truths about his Presidency may not be known until he is dead and gone. I don't know about you, but I do care what people think about me. Most people have a sense of wanting people to think positively about them. But this president is different. What amazes me more than anything is how he managed to fool the people about Iraq, stating that there were weapons of mass destruction and then start a war. For what? To get RE-ELECTED!!! That's what.. He started the Iraqi war in the middle of his first term, and he whitewashed the peoples minds that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. In his defense, his Intelligence Agencies mis-informed him, as they have done and he made his decision to invade Iraq because of what evidence was given to him. The people agreed with him, hook, line and sinker. Then he has the gall to state that this was one of his worst moments in his Presidency, when in fact the war earned him another four years in the White House. To me, it is just unbelievable that people were fooled then, and he is attempting to do it all over again with statements made in public and in his new book. President George W..... Please tell me how you sleep at night!!!