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This is the most ridiculous statement I have ever read. Even if one doesn't support the war, there is no way this was a personal vendetta. How about some constructive posting on this topic rather than such dribble!

(If an agent or anyone else wants to chastise me, I am ready, but I just couldn't read that and remain silent.)

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MrB while I totally agree at how ridiculous the compariosn is, I don't think the invasion was a personal vendetta. Bush senior had the choice to take down Saddam after Gulf War I, but unwisely chose against it. I say unwisely because Saddam was a genuine threat back then and it would have been a lot better had he been taken out instead of having well over half a million Iraqi citizens die as a result of the barbaric UN sanctions.

I would say resources and geopolitical ambitions are the two major reasons that fuelled this invasion. How many senior officials in the current Bush admnistration don't have strong ties with large US oil companies? Plus Saudi Arabia is proving extremely unreliable and it's hard for the US to support or be-friend such a corrupt regime. Re-shaping Iraq's leadership and ensuring the new Iraqi regime is compliant makes much more sense. The US is having an energy crisis. Dick Cheney bluntly described Iraq as the "great Jewel" of the Middle East in a 2000 white paper on the US energy situation.

Personally I think Saddam's removal has come at least a decade too late and the worst thing about it is the extreme suffering of Iraq's people, which still continues today. It's also one of the least reported aspects of this whole invasion, which saddens me.

Nighthawk, most of the major re-construction contracts in Iraq have gone to large US and British companies. The US government continues to blow ridiculous amounts of money on security forces being there, which they are really forced to do, but US companies are still making tidy profits out of this invasion. The sad thing is some US companies who were hurt by Saddam's invasion of Kuwait are still chasing repatriation money from Iraq's crippled economy. It's quite disgraceful corporate behaviour.

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KIDNAPPING OF 'HUNDREDS' JUST A HOAX

Anyone in Baghdad on Sunday morning could have been forgiven for thinking the country was on the verge of civil war.
Ref. https://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1%2C1249%2C...27158%2C00.html

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Yes it is my opinion, but one that is shared by many. Investigation after investigations, commissions etc.. have all confirmed that Iraq was not a threat to the US or to anybody else. I also believe Bush new the real facts so why did he give the order to invade?

I agree in part with arvhic, what we are witnissing today is the US trying to control the iraqis people and their resources by atempting to set up a puppet government. (thank God the Iraqis don't seem to be buying in)

I think it will be some years before we see the Americans leave. The US (under Bush) will continue to pump billions in the reconstruction of Iraq which benefits big US firms and secures a foothold in the region.

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Mark Danner on the British Smoking-Gun Memo

That a "smoking gun" document about the nature of the war in the making has appeared in this fashion, not in Kyrgyzstan but in England; that no one in the British or American governments has even bothered to dispute its provenance or accuracy; and that, with a few honorable exceptions like columnist Molly Ivins, that gun was allowed to lie on the ground smoking for days, hardly commented upon.
Ref. https://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?emx=x&pid=2486

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Anyone who supported the war on Iraq should read Mark Danner's piece on the British Smoking Gun Memo in the news post below.

It is now known that Bush ordered the Pentagon to invent strategies to attack Iraq only two months after September 11 when he knew full well Saddam had nothing to do with the attacks, nor did he possess any threat to anyone.

This was always about regime change and trying to find someone compliant to lead Iraq, the world's second largest oil producer.

I personally think killing 10s of thousands of innocent lives and totally destroying a country is NOT worth regime change. The US, British, Australian and every other government, most of whom only offered token support, have blood on their hands.

The Iraqi people have suffered under Saddam, been crippled by barbaric and ineffective sanctions, been bombed with WMDs in the form of Depleted Uranium that has turned many areas into toxic nuclear waste dumps and suffered huge causalties in an illegal invasion. Furthermore Iraq's reconstruction contracts are being dibbied around by vulgar US and British companies who are being paid by the proceeds of Iraqi oil, corporate greed at its worst.

This is a crime against humanity.

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Blog of an Iraqi Girl

We are hearing of people being rounded up by security forces (Iraqi) and then being found dead days later- apparently when the new Iraqi government recently decided to reinstate the death penalty, they had something else in mind.
https://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2005_05_...636281930496496

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U.S. denies releasing Saddam photo

The U.S. military denies handing over photos of Saddam Hussein in captivity to the popular British tabloid that published them -- contradicting the newspaper's version of events.
Ref. https://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/05...otos/index.html