Introduction to the Iraq War Essays
©2002-2009 Roedy Green, Canadian Mind Products
Introduction
The Iraq war is a continuation of the 9-11 and
Afghanistan Wag The Dog.
American soldiers are raping, maiming, killing and torturing kids in Iraq. This
must stop. There is no compelling reason to hurt these kids.
It seems like the war has been going on forever, but it started on 2003-03-20,
6 years and 7 months ago, with
the bombing of Baghdad. In this essay I hope to convince you that George W. Bush’s
sadistic killing, torture and rape of Iraq’s children is both wrong and
pointless. It must stop.
It is sort of fascinating that you can have 100 percent certainty about weapons
of mass destruction and zero certainty of about where they are.
~ Dr. Hans Blix (born: 1928-06-28 age: 81),
UN chief Weapons Inspector
The essential argument against the Iraq war is the same as the argument against
all wars. Wars bring unimaginable suffering. The soldiers, children, women and
the elderly killed, maimed and tortured suffer. War corrodes the souls of those
who do the killing. War destroys the environment. War is extremely expensive. It
takes resources away from activities that support life.
What makes the Iraq war unusual is that those supporting it offer only trivial
or ludicrous justifications. They refuse to admit they want the war in order to
make money by selling war materials and by stealing Iraq’s oil.
Here is what you need to know about Iraq:
- The CIA trained and helped Saddam Hussein to power. George H.W. Bush sold Saddam
helicopters and poison gas on credit which he used to gas the Iranians and the
Kurds.
- Saddam became persona non grata only after he started accepting Euros for oil. (The
same thing happened to Gaddafi. Russia became bad guys again once they started
accepting rubles for oil.) Shortly thereafter American Ambassador Glaspie
betrayed Saddam by telling him the USA would not interfere if he invaded Kuwait
over a cross-drilling dispute.
- After the Gulf War ended, before the Iraq war started, the USA bombed Iraq daily
in the Sanction bombings which killed between 1
and 2 million Iraqi civilians. In that entire
time, Iraq managed to hit not a single American plane nor kill a single American
citizen.
- The United States attacked Iraq unprovoked on 2003-03-20,
6 years and 7 months ago and
has occupied it ever since.
- Saddam was captured on 2003-12-13 (5 years and 10 months.
ago).
- Saddam was hanged 2006-12-30 (2 years and 10 months.
- Bush justified the attack by claiming Iraq had nuclear weapons and was about to
launch an attack on the USA.
- It turned out Iraq had neither nukes nor missiles to deliver them. Bush used
counterfeit evidence to justify the attack. Iraq had and still has no means to
attack the USA. They fight the American occupation with home-made bombs.
- Even Bush admitted that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.
- The war has put the USA another trillion dollars in debt.
- Military corporations (such as Halliburton who still pay Cheney residuals to
this day) have prospered to an extraordinary degree from the war and its lax
accounting.
- The USA has settled in and built for an occupation to last at least 50
years. Even with Obama’s announced withdrawal, the USA will still continue
the occupation indefinitely with a smaller force.
- Iraq has the second largest reserves of oil on earth, near the surface, and
sweet (without contaminants). It is valued at about $10
trillion at today’s prices. It will be worth many times that in future as
the world oil supply dwindles. Getting control of that prize would explain the
American willingness to throw money so recklessly at the Iraq war and their
reluctance to give up the occupation.
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