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Just to root out any question. There were no ties to Iraq and the 911 attacksBush rallies support by linking Iraq to Sept 11 By Toby Harnden in Washington (Filed: 09/10/2002) In a speech in Cincinnati on Monday night, Mr Bush said Saddam Hussein was linked with Osama bin Laden. "We know that Iraq and the al-Qa'eda terrorist network share a common enemy: the United States of America," he said. http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/10/09/wirq09.xml"To my knowledge, I have not seen any strong, hard evidence that links the two." - Rumsfeld, Monday, October 4, 2004 http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,10975887-1702,00.htmlSky News (London): "One question for you both. Do you believe that there is a link between Saddam Hussein, a direct link, and the men who attacked on September the 11th?" Bush: "I can't make that claim.' http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030131-23.htmlSept 17, 2003- Bush: No evidence Saddam Hussein involved in Nine-Eleven attacks http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1447698Sept 16, 2003- Rice: U.S. Never Said Saddam Was Behind 9/11 http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/983821/postsSept 16, 2003- Rumsfeld sees no link between Saddam Hussein, 9/11 http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-09-16-rumsfeld-iraq-911_x.htm.Aug 6, 2003- Wolfowitz: Iraq Was Not Involved In 9-11 Terrorist Attacks, No Ties To Al- Qaeda http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4372.htmBrent Scowcroft, one of the <[Republican Party>’s most respected foreign policy advisors; "Don't Attack Saddam. It would undermine our antiterror efforts. There is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks." http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110002133Allies Find No Links Between Iraq, Al Qaeda "What I'm asked is if I've seen any evidence of that. (Iraq links to al Qaeda) And the answer is: I haven't.” -British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, who supports U.S. invasion & occupation of Iraq. http://www.latimes.com/la-fg-noqaeda4nov04,0,4538810.storyBritish Intelligence agencies, MI6 and MI5 A dossier prepared by the two agencies “showed no discernible links between Iraq and al- Qaida,” http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=375403Richard Kerr, a former deputy CIA director who lead an internal review of the CIA's prewar intelligence; “the CIA has not found any proof of operational ties between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's regime.” http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?pid=800The White House’s own publication, A Decade of Defiance and Deception, makes no mention of Osama bin Laden or al Qaeda. http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/decade/sect5.htmlThe 2002 congressional joint intelligence committee’s report on the Sept. 11 attacks revealed that the Bush administration had no evidence to support its claim that Saddam’s government was supporting al-Qaeda. http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030723-064812-9491rMSNBC - No proof links Iraq, al-Qaida, Powell says http://www.msnbc.msn.com/ID/3909150According to a "top secret British document", quoted by the BBC "there is nothing but enmity between Iraq and Al Qaeda." The BBC said the leak came from intelligence officials upset that their work was being used to justify war." (quoted in Daily News, New York, 6 February 2003). http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO303D.htmlIraq-al Qaeda links weak, say former Bush officials Three former Bush administration officials who worked on intelligence and national security issues have told National Journal that the prewar evidence tying al Qaeda to Iraq was tenuous, exaggerated, and often at odds with the conclusions of key intelligence agencies. http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0803/080803nj2.htmSplit at C.I.A. and F.B.I. On Iraqi Ties to Al Qaeda "…analysts at the Central Intelligence Agency have complained that senior administration officials have exaggerated the significance of some intelligence reports about Iraq, particularly about its possible links to terrorism, in order to strengthen their political argument for war, government officials said." and… "At the Federal Bureau of Investigation, some investigators said they were baffled by the Bush administration's insistence on a solid link between Iraq and Osama bin Laden's network. "We've been looking at this hard for more than a year and you know what, we just don't think it's there," a government official said." http://query.nytimes.com/gst/ abstract.html?res=F70D1EF83E5C0C718CDDAB0894DB404482 This is consistent with what they were saying back in October 2002. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A14056- 2002Oct24 "There's absolutely no evidence that Iraq was supporting al Qaeda, ever." -Richard Clarke, former terrorism chief under bush. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/19/60minutes/main607356.shtmlIraq-al Qaeda ties have not been found Bush administration hyped sketchy and false evidence to push for war The Bush administration’s claim that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had ties to ] — one of the administration’s central arguments for a pre-emptive war — appears to have been based on even less solid intelligence than the administration’s claims that Iraq had hidden stocks of chemical and biological weapons.
Nearly a year after U.S. and British troops invaded Iraq, no evidence has turned up to verify allegations of Saddam’s links with al Qaeda, and several key parts of the administration’s case have either proved false or seem increasingly doubtful.
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/2004/03/04/news/nation/8101079.htm
Iraq and al Qaeda: What Evidence?
http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=23816
Bush's own hand-picked Republican weapons hunter ISG, Dr. David Kay;
David Kay was on the ground for months investigating the activities of Hussein's regime. He concluded "But we simply did not find any evidence of extensive links with Al Qaeda, or for that matter any real links at all."
He called a speech where Cheney made the claim there was a link, as being "evidence free."
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2004/06/16/ bush_backs_cheney_on_assertion_linking_hussein_al_qaeda
Israeli intelligence (the Moussad)
“According to Israeli intelligence, Palestinians are still not connected to the global terror network, and neither is Iraq.”
http://www.haaretz.com /
Bush's second and final hand-picked Republican weapons hunter ISG, Dr. Charles Dueffler;
Report: No WMD stockpiles in Iraq, no capability since 1991, no evidence of ties to al Qaeda, no serious threat;
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/06/1096949583023.html?from=storylhs
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/report/2004/isg-final-report
OFFICIAL VERDICT: WHITE HOUSE MISLED WORLD OVER SADDAM-AL QAEDA TIES
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0617-03.htm
No evidence of Iraq-Al Qaeda ties: 9/11 commission
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/06/cheney.911
"CIA Review Finds No Evidence Saddam Had Ties to Islamic Terrorists"
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1005-01.htm
NO ties between Iraq and international terrorists, al-Qaeda or otherwise
Prague meeting
Central to the Saddam - al Qaeda connection claim is the assertion that Czech authorities had evidence of a meeting between one of the September 11 hijackers, Mohammed Atta and an Iraqi agent in Prague in April 2001.
Both Czech President Vaclav Havel and Czech intelligence refuted this report.
http://www.intelmessages.org/Messages/National_Security/wwwboard/messages/ 2155.html
More than that, so do the FBI and CIA; Only one problem with that story, the FBI pointed out. Atta was traveling at the time between Florida and Virginia Beach, Va. (The bureau had his rental car and hotel receipts)
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/060203A.shtml
This lie of BushCo's was debunked last year. But to this day, members of the Administration cite the Prague report as evidence of an Iraq - al Qaeda connection.
World Trade Center bombing
Cheney also claimed that 1993 World Trade Center bombing co-conspirator Abdul Rahman Yasin had received “financing” and “safe haven” from Saddam’s government.
You have to really love this one...yeah he did. Sort of. He was in an Iraqi JAIL from 1994 until shortly before the invasion;
"He was being clothed and fed by them so long as he wore stripes,” joked one U.S. investigator.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3067794 /
Yasin had hopped onto a plane for Iraq. He was picked up by the Iraqi police a year later and had been held without a charge placed against him. Iraq had twice offered to deliver him to the United States, but only upon written receipt that Iraq had given him up… "like a receipt for a FedEx package"
http://www.casi.org.uk/discuss/2002/msg00755.html
but the US refused the offer.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2022991.stm
Yasin was picked up by the FBI a few days after the bombing in an apartment in Jersey City, N.J., that he was sharing with his mother. He was so helpful and cooperative, giving the FBI names and addresses, that they released him.
Yasin says he was even driven back home in an FBI car.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/31/60minutes/main510795.shtml
The FBI agree, saying they decided to let Yasin go free.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/31/60minutes/main510795.shtml
Yasin, whose picture is on the FBI Web site along with Osama bin Laden, is one of President Bush’s 22 most-wanted terrorists.
Ansar al-Islam
Ansar al-Islam, a radical Kurdish group, whose leader lives a free man in Norway, after 2 FBI interrogations found nothing to even declare him an "enemy combatant".
Of course there's that other pesky little fact, that Ansar al lives in the Kurdish north of Iraq, out of Saddam's control and under Kurdish AND AMERICAN control for the past 13 years.
http://www.iht.com/articles/85957.html
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO302B.html
NO Saddam DID NOT kick the UN weapons inspectors out in 1998;
http://www.fair.org/activism/post-expulsions.html
Amidst controversy, Butler withdrew the UNSCOM team for safety reasons ahead of US bombing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Iraqi_production_and_use_of_weapons_of_mass_destruction
Coalition of the Willing
As for bush's "coalition", 161 out of 193 nations said no, and ONLY the USA ever had a citizen majority that was pro-invasion. The populations of the countries in the so-called "Coalition of the Willing" make up only about 10 percent of the world's population.
Only 2 nations participated with troops for the actual invasion; the UK and Australia.
17 of bush's "coalition" nations are listed on the US State Dept website as being "not free" or "partially free".
Human Rights
Transparancy International reports 24 nations (over half) have high levels of corruption.
The US State Dept human rights survey list describes 18 of these nations as having "poor" or "extremely poor" human rights situations. For example, the State Department report notes that torture and/or extrajudicial killings were carried out by security forces in coalition members Albania, Azerbaijan, Colombia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Georgia, Macedonia, Nicaragua, Philippines, and Uzbekistan.
NOT in Bush's "coalition" are 11 of 15 Security Council nations; 49 of 53 African nations; 26 out of 33 Latin American nations; both Canada and Mexico; a total of 161 nations.
http://www.ips-dc.org/coerced.htm
No fresh intelligence
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld admitted the US had had no fresh intelligence prior to 1998 about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq before going to war.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,995042,00.html
The bipartisan Senate House Intelligence Committee report backs Rummy up on that;
"Most of the information was collected before 1998, when U.N. weapons inspectors left Iraq because the United States had made it clear it was about to strike the country", the two members noted.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp- dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A19528-2003Sep29
In Cairo, on February 24 2001, Powell said: "He has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbours."
On May 15 2001, Powell went further and said that Saddam Hussein had "not been able to build his military back up or to develop weapons of mass destruction" for "the last 10 years".
America, he said, had been successful in keeping him "in a box". Ie, the sanctions were working.
Two months later, Condoleezza Rice also described a weak, divided and militarily defenceless Iraq. "Saddam does not control the northern part of the country," she said. "We are able to keep his arms from him. His military forces have not been rebuilt."
Seven Months Before 9/11, CIA Director George Tenet, testified before Congress that Iraq posed no immediate threat to the United States or to other countries in the Middle East and that they had no new evidence Iraq had or was acquiring WMD.
So we had NO NEW EVIDENCE after 1998, and in 2001 we have the CIA, Powell, and Rice saying Iraq was NO THREAT to anyone, and the sanctions were working.
No New Evidence, still a threat
So how come in 2002, with NO NEW EVIDENCE, suddenly they were saying Iraq WAS a threat?
The media replayed over & over film of Chirac greeting Saddam Hussein in the 1970s. Chirac was mocked and ridiculed for it. How come they not once showed Rumsfeld greeting Saddam Hussein in the mid-1980s? Why no mocking & ridiculing of Rumsfeld?
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/09/30/sproject.irq.regime.change
Why no word on how Detroit handed Saddam the key to the city in 1979?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/26/iraq/main546287.shtml
What about this fact; Saddam's regime was using much of Iraq's burgeoning oil revenue to improve the daily lives of its people. It even won UN humanitarian awards for its literacy programs.
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/09/30/sproject.irq.regime.change
Why does a recently released study show 80% of Fox viewers held (hold) 3 basic misconceptions on Iraq?
http://truthout.org/docs_03/100403F.shtml
Was all of this known to Congress before the invasion? Sure it was. Here's Republican Ron Paul speaking in September 2002;
http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/6404
Bush did not make his case
In fact, the vast majority of Americans believed bush had NOT made his case for war, right before the invasion;
USATODAY.com - Poll: Bush hasn't made case for Iraq War
More than two-thirds of Americans believe the Bush administration has failed to make its case that a war against Iraq is justified
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002-12-17-iraq-poll_x.htm
Poll: Support For a War With Iraq Weakens Among Americans
Seven in 10 Americans would give U.N. weapons inspectors months more to pursue their arms search in Iraq, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll that found growing doubts about an attack on Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
http://middleeastinfo.org/article1795.html
While the US State Media pundits and the bushCabal told you it was just a few fringe libruls dissenting, that's not, in fact, true;
Statements after the Gulf War
Dick Cheney in April 1991, then Defense Secretary:
If you're going to go in and try to topple Saddam Hussein,you have to go to Baghdad. Once you've got Baghdad, it's not clear what you do with it. It's not clear what kind of government you would put in place of the one that's currently there now. Is it going to be a Shia regime, a Sunni regime or a Kurdish regime? Or one that tilts toward the Baathists, or one that tilts toward the Islamic fundamentalists?
How much credibility is that government going to have if it's set up by the United States military when it's there? How long does the United States military have to stay to protect the people that sign on for that government, and what happens to it once we leave?
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2072479
President George H.W. Bush, 1998;
"Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land."
http://www.rense.com/general43/quote.htm
Brent Scowcroft, one of the Republican Party’s most respected foreign policy advisors, and national security adviser under President Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush:
Don't Attack Saddam It would undermine our antiterror efforts. "Our pre-eminent security priority--underscored repeatedly by the president--is the war on terrorism. An attack on Iraq at this time would seriously jeopardize, if not destroy, the global counterterrorist campaign we have undertaken."
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110002133
Norman Schwarzkopf - Four Star General:
"The general who commanded U.S. forces in the 1991 Gulf War says he hasn't seen enough evidence to convince him that his old comrades Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Paul Wolfowitz are correct in moving toward a new war now. He thinks U.N. inspections are still the proper course to follow. He's worried about the cockiness of the U.S. war plan, and even more by the potential human and financial costs of occupying Iraq….(And don't get him started on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld)"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A52450-2003Jan27?language=printer
Col. David Hackworth (ret), America's most highly decorated soldier:
"Should the president decide to stay the war course, hopefully at least a few of our serving top-uniformed leaders - those who are now covertly leaking that war with Iraq will be an unparalleled disaster - will do what many Vietnam-era generals wish they would have done: stand tall and publicly tell the America people the truth about another bad war that could well lead to another died-in-vain black wall. Or even worse."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29786
James Webb, former Sec. of Navy under Ronald Reagan, Decorated Marine Veteran:
"Do we really want to occupy Iraq for the next 30 years? …In Japan, American occupation forces quickly became 50,000 friends. In Iraq, they would quickly become 50,000 terrorist targets…. Nations such as China can only view the prospect of an American military consumed for the next generation by the turmoil of the Middle East as a glorious windfall."
http://www.sftt.org/article09302002a.html
Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni, former Head of Central Command for U.S.:
"It's pretty interesting that all the generals see it the same way, and all the others who have never fired a shot, and are hot to go to war, see it another…We are about to do something that will ignite a fuse in this region that we will rue the day we ever started."
Hawks in the Bush administration may be making deadly miscalculations on Iraq, says Gen. Anthony Zinni, Bush's Middle East envoy.
"I'm not sure which planet they live on"
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/10/17/zinni
Republican Dissent on Iraq
Full page ad in Wall Street Journal by major GOP contributors:
"Mr. President, …The candidate we supported in 2000 promised a more humble nation in our dealings with the world. We gave him our votes and our campaign contributions. That candidate was you. We feel betrayed. We want our money back. We want our country back…. A Billion Bitter enemies will rise out of this war." - Wall Street Journal, January 13, 2003
http://talkleft.com/new_archives/001444.html
Republicans Who Voted Against Iraq Resolution Tell Why
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/10/11/194543.shtml
TOP REPUBLICANS BREAK WITH BUSH ON IRAQ STRATEGY
Leading Republicans from Congress, the State Department and past administrations have begun to break ranks with President Bush over his administration's high-profile planning for war with Iraq, saying the administration has neither adequately prepared for military action nor made the case that it is needed.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/10/11/194543.shtml
Retired general William Odom, former head of the National Security Agency:
"Right now, the course we're on, we're achieving Bin Laden's ends…. I've never seen it so bad between the office of the secretary of defense and the military. There's a significant majority believing this is a disaster. The two parties whose interests have been advanced have been the Iranians and al-Qaeda. Bin Laden could argue with some cogency that our going into Iraq was the equivalent of the Germans in Stalingrad. They defeated themselves by pouring more in there. Tragic."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/091704Y.shtml
Retired General Joseph Hoare, the former marine commandant and head of US Central Command:
"The idea that this is going to go the way these guys planned is ludicrous. There are no good options. We're conducting a campaign as though it were being conducted in Iowa, no sense of the realities on the ground. It's so unrealistic for anyone who knows that part of the world. The priorities are just all wrong."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/091704Y.shtml
Col. Mike Turner (ret), Schwarzkopf's personal briefing officer during Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm:
“The uniformed Joint Staff in the Pentagon strongly opposed this plan early on...The uniformed Joint Staff was overridden, yet in so many horrifying ways this operation resembles Somalia, not Desert Storm...Perhaps we can pull this off, but here's a far worse scenario that's at least as likely...Photos of American soldiers amid landscapes of Iraqi civilian bodies blanket the world press which aligns unanimously against the US. The US is condemned by NATO and the UN...The war ends within a few weeks, but the crisis deepens...”
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/transcripts/2003/mar/030311.turner.html
US Air Force General, Tony McPeak, a four-star general who headed the U.S. Air Force during Operation Desert Storm:
McPeak served four years on the Joint Chiefs of Staff advising Bush’s father and then President Clinton after flying 269 Vietnam combat missions and participating in the Thunderbirds, the elite aerobatic team.
McPeak believes that President Bush should publicly admit personal failure. He claims Bush has botched the crucial process of coalition-building, has not enlisted the United Nations, and has failed to rebuild Afghanistan as a model of reconstruction.
http://news.statesmanjournal.com/article.cfm?i=57303%3E
http://news.statesmanjournal.com/article.cfm?i=57303%20
Retired Envoys, Commanders Assail Bush Team Administration Unable to Handle 'Global Leadership,' 27-Member Group Asserts
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46538-2004Jun16.html
Growing GOP Dissent On Iraq Republican Party ranks are beginning to break and the White House is worried. Longtime GOP critics on Iraq are growing progressively more vocal in their condemnation.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/07/politics/main610787.shtml
Republican Rep. Bereuter: War in Iraq not justified
"I've reached the conclusion, retrospectively, now that the inadequate intelligence and faulty conclusions are being revealed, that all things being considered, it was a mistake to launch that military action. That's especially true in view of the fact that the attack was initiated "without a broad and engaged international coalition," the 1st District congressman said.
"Knowing now what I know about the reliance on the tenuous or insufficiently corroborated intelligence used to conclude that Saddam maintained a substantial WMD (weapons of mass destruction) arsenal, I believe that launching the pre-emptive military action was not justified."
As a result of the war, he said, "our country's reputation around the world has never been lower and our alliances are weakened."
"Left unresolved for now is whether intelligence was intentionally misconstrued to justify military action," he said.
Republican Rep. Doug Bereuter is a senior member of the House International Relations Committee and vice chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2004/08/18/top_story/10053833.txt
And things still aren't going very well;
Republican senator Chuck Hagel, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee;
"No, I don't think we're winning," Hagel told a CBS interviewer. "We're in trouble, we're in deep trouble in Iraq."
http://www.iht.com/articles/539563.htm
Republican senator Richard Lugar, Foreign Relations Committee chairman, was asked on ABC why only $1 billion of the $18 billion appropriated last year for Iraqi reconstruction had been spent.
"Well, this is the incompetence in the administration," he replied.
http://www.iht.com/articles/539563.htm
Are we safer, as bush keeps saying? OOPS nope.
”We have a stronger jihadi presence in Iraq today than in March 2003,” noted Roger Cressey, the former director for Transnational Threats in Bush's National Security Council at a briefing at the libertarian Cato Institute earlier this week.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0911-01.htm
Worldwide terrorism-related deaths on the rise
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5889435%20 /
US Losing the War on Terror in Iraq; The invasion of Iraq has increased, not decreased. the threat of terrorist attack
http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article2629.html
Occupation Made World Less Safe, Pro-War Institute Says
http://www.globalpolicy.org/empire/terrorwar/analysis/2004/0526iissreport.htm
Iraq Invasion Hurt War on Terror
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0719-10.htm
Musharraf: World more dangerous because of Iraq War
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/9/25/03544/7945
Blix Says Iraq War May Have Worsened Terror Threat
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0319-02.htm
Poll: Aussies, Brits, Italians say Iraq war increased terrorism
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1576/5027215.html
Iraq intervention increased threat of terrorism
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/archive/scoop/stories/c7/9d/ 200409100845.68f9c878.html
UK Government; Iraq war 'increased terror threat'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3451239.stm
Iraq war has swollen ranks of al Qaeda
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1063717,00.html
US State Department Corrects Report to Show Rise in Terrorism
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5264512 /
Iraq has become a terrorist spawning ground, CIA admits
http://www.smh.com.au/news/After-Saddam/Iraq-a-terrorist-spawning-ground-CIA- admits/2005/02/17/1108609349394.html?oneclick=true
Iraq Conflict Feeds International Terror Threat
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050216/us_nm/ security_usa_dc_9
But the majority of Americans -62%- thought before bush's illegal invasion that invading Iraq would increase terrorism; they were correct;
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/07/opinion/meyer/main539846.shtml
And now we're told another attack is coming.
Rumsfeld warned on Wednesday that terrorists are regrouping for another strike.
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBTNH0O95E.html
As for the short-lived attempt by bushCartel to claim invading and occupying Iraq a "humanitarian intervention", there's a good reaon that excuse was so short-lived;
The vast majority of Americans say "humanitarian" is not justification
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1114-06.htm
Human Rights Watch; Iraq invasion cannot be justified as humanitarian intervention
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0126-07.htm
Britain's Tony Blair admitting the "300,000" in mass graves in Iraq was untrue didn't help bush's "humanitarian" rhetoric, either, especially when Blair admitted there'd been only some 5000 remains found in those mass graves;
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,1263830,00.html
The Iraqis aren't very grateful to us;
Poll: Only 2% of Iraqis View the US as Liberators, 97% as Occupiers
http://www.independent-media.tv/ item.cfm?fmedia_id=7752&fcategory_desc=Under%20Reported
Killing other people & their kids tend to make people ungrateful;
CNN.com - Study puts Iraqi toll at 100,000
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/29/iraq.deaths /
The world hates us:
Amnesty Slams "Bankrupt" Vision of US in Damning Rights Report
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0526-02.htm
Poll: Bush 'Biggest Threat to Justice and Peace'
http://www.twf.org/News/Y2002/1109-Poll.html
'SQUANDERED SYMPATHY'; Poll reveals world anger at Bush
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1328053,00.html
For the first time, statistics show world's dislike of Bush translating into dislike of Americans in general
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1394393,00.html
While the world and half of America know the facts, and most knew them prior to bush's invasion, bush supporters are still totally in the dark. The majority of bush supporters still continue to believe Iraq was involved in the 911 attacks, had ties to al Qaeda, had WMD etc;
http://www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/Pres_Election_04/html/new_10_21_04.html
But even with so many still so wrong on the facts, only 42% of Americans now approve of bush's invasion;
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0211-04.htm
Gee...and it only took, so far, the deaths of 1471 uniformed American men, women and teens;
http://icasualties.org/oif/
And over $300 billion US dollars...YOUR dollars. So far.
http://www.detnews.com/2005/nation/0502/16/A04-90621.htm
Well I guess that this should be enough to satisfy anybody...
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