Yes, Bush has failed in Iraq - but why did he invade in the first place?

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&article_id=83631&categ_id=17

Two years after the editorial staff of the New York Times published a mea culpa expressing regret for failing to be more rigorous in its reporting in the run-up to the US-led war on Iraq, the influential paper has now finally called for the United States to withdraw. Citing US President George W. Bush's failure to deliver on successive promises of "breakthroughs," the paper concludes, "whatever his cause, it is lost."

Although this admission represents an admirable attempt to be more honest, the Times and other American media outlets continue to avoid one critical question: What is Bush's cause? To the people of this region, Bush's cause has long been painfully evident: to gain control of Iraq's oil resources. Indeed, ever since the US-led invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration has been aggressively pressuring the Iraqi government to pass a new oil law, ostensibly to promote "reconciliation" among the country's divided communities. In fact, Bush has made the passage of a new oil law one of his key "benchmarks" for Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government. snip

The Americans invaded Iraq on the basis of lies that Bush concocted about Al-Qaeda and weapons of mass destruction. Now that Bush has completely shattered the Iraqi nation, he wants to deprive the Iraqi people of one of the only means they have to repair it. The question now becomes: Is this a cause that the American people can support in good conscience?

[H2O Man]

1. Nominated.

We know "how" he brought the nation to war -- fear and lies. It's important to discuss "why," in order to find a solution to the hell produced by that fear and lies.

[trumad]

2. why is easy

because he was told to by Dick and his gang. OIL

[tbyg52]

4. Yep. Operation Iraqi Liberation. nt

[havocmom]

6. Might have been more like Operation Iraqi Liquidation

They pretty much liquidated the US too.

[struggle4progress]

12. " ... He began with Prime Minister Blair, where the two discussed the ongoing aspects of ...

Operation Iraqi Liberation ..."

Press Briefing by Ari Fleischer
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
March 24, 2003
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030324-4.html

[havocmom]

13. And last week: announced oil & water resources going to corporations

= Iraqi liquidation

Hurry! Giant Liquidation Sale! Everything must go (private)!

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. Kicked and nominated. nt

[MADem]

5. Operation Iraqi Liberation (OIL)--plain and simple. A no-brainer.

This was a war that was whipped up by the corporations, touted by their very own media outlets, and managed by a bunch of evil bastards who know nothing of warfighting.

If there had been oil in Afghanistan, particularly round by Tora Bora, they'd have had Bin Ladin's head on a pike long ago.

[DemReadingDU]

7. Definitely, for OIL

To ensure large profits for the oil companies, not so much as a supply for us users.

[rosesaylavee]

8. Oil.

And they are very close to getting complete control of it... if that pesky Iraqi govt would just sign the papers. As soon as they sign, a 'miracle' will occur and the *cos will say, hey, let's start a pull out. The Iraqi are standing up so we can stand down, bladum, bladum, etc.

[trumad]

9. Remember in F9/11 the part where the oil guys were carving up Iraq?

nuff said

[rosesaylavee]

10. Yep.

Here's another vid to watch: The History of Oil and War http://www.brasscheck.com/videos/oil/oil1.html

Did you know that greed for Iraq's oil has inspired other conflicts?

[supernova]

11. Not enough of them got to orgasm after Gulf War I

So they've had a hard on for "finishing the job" practically ever since then. They felt cheated out of all the "bennies" they think they're getting now. I really feel sorry for the Iraqis.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

14. To take the oil fields away from the Iraqis.

Didn't the oil companies put Bush and Dick in the White House to begin with?

[Poiuyt]

15. Bush wanted to invade Iraq to show up his father and to gain political power

Two years before the September 11 attacks, presidential candidate George W. Bush was already talking privately about the political benefits of attacking Iraq, according to his former ghost writer, who held many conversations with then-Texas Governor Bush in preparation for a planned autobiography.

“He was thinking about invading Iraq in 1999,” said author and journalist Mickey Herskowitz. “It was on his mind. He said to me: ‘One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief.’ And he said, ‘My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it.’ He said, ‘If I have a chance to invade….if I had that much capital, I’m not going to waste it. I’m going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I’m going to have a successful presidency.”

Herskowitz said that Bush expressed frustration at a lifetime as an underachiever in the shadow of an accomplished father. In aggressive military action, he saw the opportunity to emerge from his father’s shadow. The moment, Herskowitz said, came in the wake of the September 11 attacks. “Suddenly, he’s at 91 percent in the polls, and he’d barely crawled out of the bunker.”

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According to Herskowitz, who has authored more than 30 books, many of them jointly written autobiographies of famous Americans in politics, sports and media (including that of Reagan adviser Michael Deaver), Bush and his advisers were sold on the idea that it was difficult for a president to accomplish an electoral agenda without the record-high approval numbers that accompany successful if modest wars.

more -

http://www.guerrillanews.com/articles/article.php?id=761

[AntiFascist]

16. The answer is a resounding NO...

otherwise, this will allow the Iraqi insurgency to take the moral high road, which makes us the BAD GUYS! Worse yet, Bush has successfully drawn Iran and al Qaeda into the conflict. While ultimately failing in the war, this now allows them to claim victory over the US. Since BushCo's ego can't handle that, the emphasis will now be to bomb Iran directly. The only REASONABLE solution is to expose BushCo for what they are doing and quickly work to repair the damage diplomatically.

[EFerrari]

17. K&R. Thanks.

[mmonk]

18. That was always the cause.

And it appears there are millions of Americans that have no conscience about it.