Let us examine Facts about IRAQ

WHO WOULD JESUS Bomb???Won't that make a great story for our mission accomplished in Iraq? We blame all Moslems for terrorist attacks on us huh?

So logically won't it be possible to blame all Christians for the tens of thousands of dead Iraqi civilians? Think about it a bit before you progress further.

The sad state of our citizenry is demonstrated when even five years after 9-11, most Oklahomans don’t seem to know that fifteen out of the 9-11 Hijackers were Saudi Arabians (our biggest feudal ally) and that none were Iraqis; rest were either Egyptians or others. It is sadder than some of our young men and women fighting and dying in Iraq are still made to think Saddam was behind 9-11 by right wing propagandists and the architects of the invasion.

It is patently obvious, that after our own intelligence community released the definitive report in May 2003 disputing Bush’s and Cheney’s claims about mobile weapons laboratories, we continued to flat out lie about it as late as November of 2003, on national media by insisting Saddam had mobile biological weapons labs which turn out to be for Helium trucks for weather balloons! No one want to challenge these lies; the moral rightwing mullahs who were “outraged” by Clinton’s lies about fellatio and stains on a blue dress are deaf dumb and mute on issues that are critical to our security, and future.

WHERE THE BLOODY HELL IS THE OUTRAGE AT THESE LIES?

CLINTON LIED ABOUT PERSONAL MORAL FAILINGS and you rightwing nuts were all up in arms and your pimps on TV and radio were hammering him day in and day out even before investigations were completed; for what?

Did the fornicating Bubba redneck SW US President get almost 2,805 young Americans killed? Did he cause the Haditha massacre?

Right now, Iraq’s former President, Tyrant and Dictator Saddam is being tried for “crimes against humanity” that occurred in 1982. It is very important we Americans make careful note of the time frame(year) mentioned. Most of us (and me too, an immigrant: LEGAL) citizens don’t pay attention to facts and details when they espouse opinions such as “Saddam was responsible for 9-11”; “he was bad guy and we never supported him because we are so righteous” etc.

In the absence of WMDs, and in light of all the neo-con arguments for invasion blowing up in our faces daily, it is good for YOU YOUNG STUDENTS AS responsible citizens to peruse some historical facts(while cheering you football team or the St Louis Cardinals), and examine the time frame carefully. When those alleged incidents occurred in 1982, Saddam had been President of Iraq for almost 7 years after he ousted the Baath Party head and former President Al Bakr in 1975.

Saddam brought one of the longest periods of stability, a massive infrastructure development scheme, and ah yes a massive military build up as well, thanks to oil money. By the time he went to war with Iran, Iraq had a very educated population and women enjoyed more freedoms(except political) than in any of our allied feudal corrupt degenerate kingdoms of the middle-east. Similarly, our ally Iran at that time was doing the same. Therefore, it is critical that we patriots to examine our own role in exacerbating the Iranian crisis; then we patriots can have a more informed understanding of our relationships with Iran.

(Wikpedia quoted below)
De-classified CIA files and State Department files reveal that in 1953 the US overthrew a democratically elected socialist government in Iran and installed the Shah Reza Phalavi with pro-monarchy forces in a coup led by British and US intelligence agencies. The Shah who was our puppet, ran the place with his Savak Secret police and killed thousands and thousands while ensuring stable cheap oil supplies. We actively armed and supported him all the way to the end (1979) when it became apparent that Iranian people power with help from the Mullahs will no longer tolerate the Shah: What were our reasons supporting the Shah? Was it is the yummy Dates and mouth watering Pistachios Iran exports? or that thick gooey stuff that runs our economy? In 1979 the religious opposition, lead by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, drove the Shah into exile. Khomeini sought his capture for crimes against Iranian civilians; and when it was learned that he had been admitted into the United States for medical treatment, Iran's angry and foolish response was the start of the hostage crisis at the U.S. embassy in Teheran. After dismissal from the hospital the Shah fled to Panama, then Egypt. He died on July 27, 1980, at the age of 60.

During the cold war, Iraq was armed and trained by Soviets and Iran was armed and trained by us. Both were disgusting tyrannies with Saddam being more brutal than the Shah. Both nations developed rapidly using oil wealth and had highly developed infrastructure. But most of their wealth was spent on weapons from us or the Soviets and we were gleeful at the profits we made. Shah of Iran had his share of Palaces and the Peacock Throne just like Saddam had his opulent palaces similar to all the other feudal degenerate Royalties we prop in the Middle-East.

(Wikpedia quoted below)
One of the factors contributing to hostility between Iraq and Iran was a dispute over control of the Shatt al-Arab waterway at the head of the Persian Gulf, an important channel for the oil exports of both countries. (research sources) In 1974 Saddam launched a small attack on Iran and failed. In 1975, United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger sanctioned that the Shah , attack Iraq over the waterway, which was under Iraqi control at the time; soon afterward both nations signed the Algiers Accord, in which Iraq made territorial concessions, including the waterway, in exchange for normalized relations. From 1980 to 1989 Iraq and Iran engaged in the the longest conventional warfare of the 20th century, costing over a million casualties and US$1.19 trillion. The war began when Iraq invaded Iran on 22 September 1980 following a long history of border disputes, and secret encouragement by the US administration led by Democrat Jimmy Carter who was embroiled in a dispute with the new regime in Iran.

When it became apparent that Saddam with his inferior Russian weapons could not defeat Iran with it superior American weapons, Reagan and Bush-41 actively (along with France, Russia and Germany) supported Saddam; we supplied fire directional support and intelligence for his Russian style artillery. We provided components to his chemical weapons program and Reagan allowed Military truck sales as well. So where are the conservatives and their morality play now?

Our companies sold a veritable cocktail of dangerous chemicals to him with government approval. Most of the incidents that we feign being “outraged and shocked” about now, in fact happened during that war (including the gassing in Halabja). The US and Britain actively tried to block UN resolutions condemning Iraq because siding with the Mad Saddam was strategically critical to stymie radical Shia Islamic Persia. Given this history and our duplicity, Iran which is an oil-rich nation in a highly volatile neighborhood is understandably paranoid about its security. It knows Israel has nuclear weapons with our blessings. It was afraid of Saddam’s Iraq and the brutal war cost and the ancient history of hostility between Arab and Persian cultures that go back thousands of years. These are the kind of complexities that neo-con extremist ideologues in American who are culturally clueless failed to grasp by invading Iraq. There has always been a rivalry between various kingdoms of Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) and Persia (Iran).


Let us reexamine history lest we forget; Saddam launched his war against Iran in 1980 with covert encouragement from the US, and all western allies. During that time the US and other nations actively funded and supported efforts to destabilize Iran. Iran was seen as the biggest threat to us, because of its brand of Shia Radical Islamic revolution. There were many assassination attempts against Saddam by various forces within Iraq, and some of them were supported by Islamic Iran. The US supplied Saddam intelligence, artillery directional support, components to his chemical weapons programs and only when the war dragged on for 9 long years causing it to be the longest conventional war in 20th century history, did the super power elements lose interest in siding Iraq. After a while, Russia stopped supporting Saddam because the war was an embarrassment to their claims of having better weapons technologies than the US.

In 1983 (very important to note the year) Donald Rumsfeld,(the biggest self righteous architect of the liberation of Iraq) went begging for contracts from Saddam. At that time, Donald did not pay heed to any of the pesky busybody liberal human rights organizations who were expressing deep concern about Iraq’s gross human rights abuses for decades. In fact, the Reagan Government he represented, and Britain tried to block UN resolutions brought forward by Iran about alleged chemical weapons use by Saddam’s regime. Saddam was viewed as the legitimate President of Iraq by us. Then why are we being "outraged" and citing those human rights violations that liberals talked about as the reasons for this war?

Rumsfeld and our leaders thought nothing of trying to gain multi billion dollar contracts for Bechtel from a butcher; but today in 2006, to make most out of our to “save and liberate” Iraq(let us disregard collateral damage estimated at over 150,000 and the massacre at Haditha etc), our neo-conservative crusading misleaders want only show the ugly side of Saddam to the world. Perhaps one could surmise that if Saddam and murderous thug sons were astute, they should have given those mega billion contracts to Americans(and not to the French) and bought superior American weapons instead of inferior Russian and French weapons, and he would still be in power and his air-force would be flying F-16s like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia: two of the biggest sources of Islamic radical extremist terrorists.

The neo-conservatives in the Bush regime, responsible for the incredible success in Iraq (the ones who said “we will be greeted as liberators with candy and flowers”, “Iraq sought yellow cake from Niger” ) are on "collision course" with Iran. Because we cried “Wolf Wolf” to suit a predetermined agenda to invade Iraq, we will have a tough time trying to convince the world about a “war of liberation” in Iran. Despite our sabre rattling and fear mongering, our only significant ally in Iraq, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, declined to participate in any military strike on Iran. That is because our post 9-11 credibility around the world was shattered by the invasion of Iraq. Top retired military generals including those who saw combat in Iraq are speaking out in frustration at the war effort. It is costing the American tax payers over a trillion dollars. (Hmm how will the “Rovian” White House smear them? Call them gay? ) There is no quick exit. We will have to remain in Iraq and stabilize it for at least two more decades. Ironically, we have secret bases fifty miles from holy sites in Saudi Arabia that the government does not want us to know about; that angers their Wahabi Islamic citizens. When will Bush be eager to establish democracy in Saudi Arabia, Baharain, Qatar, Kuwait and Pakistan as well? On memorial day it is imperative we ask Bush whether he would dare utter the “D” word to his buddies in Riyadh.

WE CANNOT WITHDRAW FROM IRAQ NOW. WE OPENED A PANDORA’S BOX AND WE NEED TO CLOSE IT. I DISAGREE ON THE “WITHDRAW NOW” IDIOTS on the fringe as well as with the "Benchmark no timeline" morons who took us there too.

WE SHOULD HOLD THE DARNED LIARS WHO RUSHED TO WAR ACCOUNTABLE. "We will be greeted as liberators"