My take on the Iraq War.

Why did the U.S. attack Iraq ?  George Bush ,and his administration, would have the public believe that this war was a war on terrorism.  That it was a war on the terrorists that attacked the World Trade center,the Pentagon,and took over Commercial flights that day.

The facts point to Iraq having nothing or little to do with these terrorists attacks.  All 19 men that attacked the United States that day were members of al-Qaeda. 14 of them were from the country of Saudi Arabia and the sect of muslims called Wahabis. This was also the sect that their leader,Osama bin Laden, belonged to.

Osama bin Laden always said that debt brings down empires. That was a stated goal of his. He knew that to bring down the United States they had to ruin us financially.

Remember that terrorists have little power to make any change without the power of fear. They have no armies other military power. Their attack that day was made by 19 men wielding box cutters. Yes,boxcutters.

The responce by the Bush Administration seemed ,at the time, a little of an overreaction.  The U.S. attacked Iraq,a country with no connection to the attacks on 9/11. Over the last 10 years the U.S. has doubled the size of our defense budget . 6,500 American soildiers have been killed. 65,000 have been wounded. Only God knows how many innocent Iraqi men,women and children we have killed or maimed.  We have destroyed their cities and way of life.  We have spent over a trillion dollers so far on this foolish war. Why ?  Why did Bush di it. I have my own opinions why.

The main reason for the US invasion of Iraq was to gain control of Iraq's oilfields (so as to keep the oil in the ground and drive up oil prices), to establish military bases in Iraq from which to dominate the Middle East and eventually (by controlling oil supply) to establish control over all countries dependent on oil, and (most important to the neo-cons Wolfowitz, et al.) to remove the threat to Israel posed by Iraq.

Of course there were also other reasons.
After control of the oilfields the next most important reason for the US's takeover of Iraq was that Iraq had begun to accept payment in euros for its oil, opening the way for all major oil producers to do this. Were this to happen then the euro would probably become the world's reserve currency, not the dollar. This would have a major negative impact on the US economy (would, in fact, cause the collapse of the US economy) and would also severely reduce its ability to pour money into its weapons programs. By gaining control of Iraq's oil the US can now refuse payment in euros, thereby maintaining the dollar as the reserve currency.

War is always good for the companies that profit from it.
Halliburton, Exxon Mobil,and General Dymanics to name a few. 

I could go on and on but what's the point. If my blog is too long no one will read it. Hell,no one will read it anyway. I will post a link to Facebook .ust for fun.