Some sources
March 26, 2008A lot of these are more sources that talk about the deception that the Bush Administration used in getting us into Iraq there isnt too much on oil but these (I think) are still really good
Downing Street Memo, Sunday Times Newspaper article
Essentially this said Bush wanted to invade Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein
This quote/paragraph basically sums up the entire article:
C reported on his recent talks in Washington. There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. The NSC had no patience with the UN route, and no enthusiasm for publishing material on the Iraqi regime’s record. There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action
THERE WERE FIXED AND FAULTY FACTS
Downing Street Why Care Page: Showing contradictions (lies) of Bush regime
“The possibility of the United States winning the war and losing the peace in Iraq is real and serious…. [Without an 'overwhelming' effort to prepare for the U.S. occupation of Iraq] the United States may find itself in a radically different world over the next few years, a world in which the threat of Saddam Hussein seems like a pale shadow of new problems of America’s own making.”
-Army War College report
MR. RUSSERT: Do we have any evidence linking Saddam Hussein or Iraqis to this operation [9/11]?
VICE PRES. CHENEY: No.”
We should install democracy in Iraq: We’ve also been told an invasion of Iraq is necessary to promote democracy. But according to Michael Klare, professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College and author of “Resource Wars,” that is another falsehood. In the 1980s, when Iraq was the enemy of our enemy, Iran, the United States eagerly embraced Hussein’s dictatorship. Donald Rumsfeld even personally met Hussein in 1983 to give him secret satellite data on Iranian military positions.
America’s support of post-Soviet dictatorships in Azerbaijan, Kazakstan and Uzbekistan, not to mention Saudi Arabia, doesn’t support the assertion that our foreign policy is driven by a passion to encourage the spread of democracy.
So, if Hussein is not the greatest threat to America, and if the United States is considering the use of nuclear weapons, and if we’re not dedicated to installing democracy in Iraq, what, then, explains the Bush administration’s rush to war? The answer is our government’s stated intention to preserve America’s supremacy as the paramount world power, which is precariously based on our dependence on oil. By 2020, the United States will import 65 percent of its energy resources. “This dependency,” Klare argues, “is the Achilles’ heel for American power: Unless Persian Gulf oil can be kept under American control, our ability to remain the dominant world power would be put into question.”
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