Introduction to the Iraq War Essays
©2002-2017 Roedy Green of Canadian Mind Products
Introduction
The Iraq war is a continuation of the 9-11 and Afghanistan Wag The Dog.
American soldiers are raping, maiming, killing and torturing kids in Iraq. This must
stop. There is no compelling reason to hurt these kids.
It seems like the war has been going on forever, but it started on 2003-03-20, 15 years and 1 month
ago, with the bombing of Baghdad. In this essay I hope to
convince you that George W. Bush’s sadistic killing, torture and rape of
Iraq’s children is both wrong and pointless. It must stop.
It is sort of fascinating that you can have 100 percent certainty about weapons of mass
destruction and zero certainty of about where they are.
~ Dr. Hans Blix (1928-06-28 age:89),
UN (United Nations) chief Weapons Inspector
The essential argument against the Iraq war is the same as the argument against all
wars. Wars bring unimaginable suffering. The soldiers, children, women and the elderly
killed, maimed and tortured suffer. War corrodes the souls of those who do the killing.
War destroys the environment. War is extremely expensive. It takes resources away from
activities that support life.
What makes the Iraq war unusual is that those supporting it offer only trivial or
ludicrous justifications. They refuse to admit they want the war in order to make money
by selling war materials and by stealing Iraq’s oil.
Here is what you need to know about Iraq:
- The CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) trained and helped Saddam Hussein to power. George
Herbert Walker Bush sold Saddam helicopters and poison gas on credit which he used to
gas the Iranians and the Kurds.
- Saddam became persona non grata only after he started accepting Euros for oil.
(The same thing happened to Gadafi. Russia became bad guys again once they started
accepting rubles for oil.) Shortly thereafter American Ambassador Glaspie betrayed
Saddam by telling him the USA would not interfere if he invaded Kuwait over a
cross-drilling dispute.
- After the Gulf War ended, before the Iraq war started, the USA bombed Iraq daily
in the Sanction bombings which killed between 1 and
2 million Iraqi civilians. In that entire time, Iraq
managed to hit not a single American plane nor kill a single American citizen.
- The United States attacked Iraq unprovoked on 2003-03-20, 15 years and 1 month
ago and has occupied it ever since.
- Saddam was captured on 2003-12-13 (
14 years and 4 months. ago).
- Saddam was hanged 2006-12-30 (
11 years and 4 months.
- Bush justified the attack by claiming Iraq had nuclear weapons and was about to
launch an attack on the USA.
- It turned out Iraq had neither nukes nor missiles to deliver them. Bush used
counterfeit evidence to justify the attack. Iraq had and still has no means to attack
the USA. They fight the American occupation with home-made bombs.
- Even Bush admitted that Iraq had nothing to do with 2001-09-11.
- The war has put the USA another trillion dollars in debt.
- Military corporations (such as Halliburton who still pay Cheney residuals to this
day) have prospered to an extraordinary degree from the war and its lax
accounting.
- The USA has settled in and built for an occupation to last at least 50 years. Even with Obama’s announced withdrawal, the USA will
still continue the occupation indefinitely with a smaller force.
- Iraq has the second largest reserves of oil on earth, near the surface and sweet
(without contaminants). It is valued at about $10
trillion at today’s prices. It will be worth many times that in future as the
world oil supply dwindles. Getting control of that prize would explain the American
willingness to throw money so recklessly at the Iraq war and their reluctance to give
up the occupation.
