To initiate a war of aggression…is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." -- Nuremberg Tribunal Stated reasons: Iraq supposedly had known WMD that was not accounted for - We will never know about the accounting because the US got the first copy of the Iraq report which was 11,800 pages and removed over 8000 pages then released the remaining 3500 to the world. US Illegally Removes Pages from Iraq UN Report, America tore out 8000 pages of Iraq dossier, Can You Imagine?: Hussein Was Right & Bush Was Wrong - It is now known there is no WMD. The CIA tried to plant some WMD but all 100 in that crew were killed by friendly fire - supposedly from a stray cruise missile or a combination of missiles and bombs that went astray. Saddam was involved with 9/11 as stated over and over by Bush, Powell, Rumsfeld and Rice - Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11. Yet as of Feb 28, 06 Almost 90% of US soldiers in Iraq think war is retaliation for Saddam’s role in 9/11. Saddam was an imminent threat, 45 minutes to a Mushroom Cloud - We are more than 93 miles from him, which was the limit of his missiles. He had 1 balsa wood plane with a 7 foot wingspan - chills... Saddam and Al-Qaida were in cahoots - They never were, Saddam was secular and they could not stand each other. Aluminum tubes for Uranium enrichment - they were for rocket body's and were ok under the sanctions. Among the claims used to buttress the case for invading Iraq was the claim that Iraq had tried to purchase 500 tons of Uranium Oxide, called "Yellow Cake", from Niger. Tony Blair included the claim in his notorious "Dodgy Dossier", for which he later apologized. President Bush highlighted the"Yellow Cake" uranium in his State of the Union Speech January 28th, 2003 promoting his invasion plans. Then it turned out that the documents supposedly proving the sale or the uranium were forgeries. Not only that, they were BAD forgeries, and the I.A.E.A. stated that the forgeries were so obvious that it would be impossible to miss the fact of the forgery by anyone carrying out a close examination of the documents. Saddam gassed 5000 Kurds in 1988 - he did not, according to the CIA the Iranians killed them in a battle with Saddam. They died from a cyanide-based gas, which Iraq did not possess at the time. g2mil.com/Dec2003.htm, US Army War College: NO PROOF SADDAM GASSED THE KURDS!, Google search. The US supplied most of the WMD to Saddam during the 70's and 80's. The US also sold WMD to Iran during that same time thus making money from them both and letting/inciting them to kill each other. The world was even shown where the WMD's were on the map. We were told that the smoking gun could come at any time in the form of a mushroom cloud or a cloud of toxic biological or chemical weapons. Does anyone remember duct tape and plastic sheeting? Saddam is a bad guy. etc... all Lies except for the last one however he was our bad guy/puppet put there, instructed, paid and supplied with weapons by the US. For all the reasons given: In the infamous words of Paul Wolfowitz, "WMD became the reason upon which we could all bureaucratically agree." It is easy to declare, as the president often does on the campaign trail, "The world is a safer place with Saddam Hussein in jail," but recent reports and actions on the ground contradict that notion. This is one of the great deceits that is being perpetuated on the American public and the world; That this occupation is to fight terrorism: If we don't fight terrorism in Iraq then we will have to fight it on our streets. In fact, terrorist attacks have skyrocketed in Iraq and all over the world. So much so, that the State Department has stopped compiling the statistics and quit issuing the yearly terrorism report. The evidence is overwhelming, compelling, and alarming that George and his indecent bandits traitorously had intelligence fabricated to fit their goal of invading Iraq. The criminals foisted a Lie of Historic Proportions on the world. It was clear to many of us more aware people that George, Condi, Rummy, the two Dicks: Cheney and Perle, Wolfie, and most effectively and treacherously, Colin Powell, lied their brains out before the invasion. Now, Bush and his co-conspirators are still trying to claim that all the mis-statements about Iraq were "honest" mistakes, intelligence failures, goofs, etc. But forgery is a deliberate act. It is INTENDED to deceive those who are shown the documents. There is no accident and mistake; the design is to present a falsehood to the public. The forged "Yellow Cake" documents are proof of an intent to lie to the public about the reasons for going to war in Iraq. The Downing Street Memo/Minutes clearly states that "the case against saddam is weak" and we will try to goad him into attacking us by stepping up on the bombings of Iraq in August 2002, before any stated action against him. The memo states that George Bush "was determined" to attack Iraq long before going to Congress with the matter, and that "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." "Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD." The secret Downing Street memo - SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL - UK EYES ONLY and After Downing Street Dot Org :: In Support of a Resolution of Inquiry. The president was wrong about weapons of mass destruction; Iraq's threat to the United States; links between Saddam and al-Qaida; the reliability of Ahmed Chalabi; They will greet us with roses in the streets; that Iraqi oil would pay for the war; the number of troops required to provide stability; and that we would be greeted as liberators and "Mission Accomplished" and..... In fact, the only thing that the president has been right about is the evil of Saddam Hussein. Did we need over 1,600 American casualties to figure that one out? Towards the end of 2003 and through 2004 the reason morphed to "America invaded Iraq to bring freedom and democracy to the Iraqi people." No we did not! We went there, supposedly, for the Original stated reasons of "45 minutes to a mushroom cloud" and "WMD" etc. Pay close attention to this link Iraq: The Words of Mass Deception for this is what the public was told. More lies here, Exposing those in Power - Office of Special Plans, Cooking Intelligence. A database at House.gov, prepared at the direction of Rep. Henry A. Waxman, identifies 237 specific misleading statements, misleading statements - Backup Link about the threat posed by Iraq made by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell and Condoleezza Rice in the time leading up to and after the commencement of hostilities in Iraq. There is a report by Colonel Sam Gardiner (USAF, Ret.), November 2003, "Truth from These Podia" A 56-page investigation - Summary of a Study of Strategic Influence, Perception Management, Strategic Information Warfare and Strategic Psychological Operations in Gulf II. identifies more than 50 stories about the Iraq war that were faked by government propaganda artists in a covert campaign to "market" the military invasion of Iraq.A Strategy of Lies: How the White House Fed the Public a Steady Diet of FalsehoodsFull report in PDF format: Full Report in 1 Part 56 pgs. or Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6. Never forget the constantly changing rationales for the Iraq war. In a stunning disarray of shiftiness we heard WMD, regime change, humanitarianism, threats to national security, Saddam was one bad dude, Iraqi democracy, fuzzy 9/11 links, Middle East democracy, the U.N.’s weakness, Iraq’s centrality in the front against terrorism... Where does it end?