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Introduksjon

  • CNN, 2004-01-14: O'Neill: Bush planned Iraq invasion before 9/11
    • "The Bush administration began planning to use U.S. troops to invade Iraq within days after the former Texas governor entered the White House three years ago, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill told CBS News' 60 Minutes."

2002

February

  • 2002-02-14: Iran, Israel and Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East
    • "The British government, with Prime Minister Tony Blair in the lead, argued that the time was ripe to strengthen the hand of reformers within Iran through engagement. Continued hostility, they said, played into the hands of hardliners who used Western aggression as an excuse to mask their own failure in governance. Moreover, dual containment of both Iran and Iraq, many critics argued, had proved both costly and ineffectual. There seemed to be compelling reasons to repair the two-decade-old breach between Washington and Tehran."

July

  • 2002-07-23: "A British citizen leaked a memo to London's Sunday Times. The memo was of the written account of a meeting that a man named Richard Dearlove had with the Bush administration in July 2002. Dearlove was the head of the England's MI-6, the equivalent of the CIA. On July 23, 2002, Dearlove briefed Tony Blair about the meeting. He said that Bush was determined to attack Iraq. He said that Bush knew that U.S. intelligence had no evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and no links to foreign terrorists, that there was no imminent danger to the U.S. from Iraq. But, since Bush was determined to go to war, "Intelligence and facts are being fixed around the policy." "Fixed" means faked, manufactured, conjured, hyped – the product of whole cloth fabrication."
  • 2002-07-23: "Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is seeking to acquire nuclear weapons, Prime Minister Tony Blair claimed today."
    • This very serious and very amazing claim that is actively being "tweaked" away from history (check using 3-4 search engines) is very interesting.

September

4. September

  • Blair-Bush talks to take place on Saturday
    • "Tony Blair is to fly to the US on Saturday for a summit on Iraq with the US president, George Bush, it was announced today."
    • "As far as nuclear weapons are concerned we believe that [Saddam] is in the process of developing that capacity," he said. Obviously it's not just having the nuclear weapons but the ballistic missile technology in that capacity in order to deliver them."

7. September

President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair made some very interesting remarks on a "Photo Opportunity".

President Bush, Prime Minister Blair Discuss Keeping the Peace

  • It is interesting that the announcement that informed that Bush and Blair were now official allies who were going to invade Iraq together had this very appropriate title.
  • Saddam Hussein is a very bad guy.
    • "The point that I would emphasize to you is that the threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction, chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability, that threat is real."
  • Plans to invade Iraq are again confirmed.
    • "We owe it to future generations to deal with this problem, and that's what these discussions are all about."

12. September

US President George Bush tells the United Nations General Assembly, seriously, that "al Qaeda terrorists escaped from Afghanistan and are known to be in Iraq.".

  • Just in case you think this is a joke: This statement is from The White House. Yes, it would be very funny if it was not so serious.
  • "In 1991, the U.N. Security Council, through Resolution 687, demanded that Iraq renounce all involvement with terrorism, and permit no terrorist organizations to operate in Iraq. Iraq's regime agreed. It broke this promise. In violation of Security Council Resolution 1373, Iraq continues to shelter and support terrorist organizations that direct violence against Iran, Israel, and Western governments. Iraqi dissidents abroad are targeted for murder. In 1993, Iraq attempted to assassinate the Emir of Kuwait and a former American President. Iraq's government openly praised the attacks of September the 11th. And al Qaeda terrorists escaped from Afghanistan and are known to be in Iraq."
  • Bush does say something very relevant regarding his own regime: "We must choose between a world of fear and a world of progress. We cannot stand by and do nothing while dangers gather. We must stand up for our security, and for the permanent rights and the hopes of mankind."
  • Iraq employs capable nuclear scientists and technicians. It retains physical infrastructure needed to build a nuclear weapon. Iraq has made several attempts to buy high-strength aluminum tubes used to enrich uranium for a nuclear weapon.

24. September

  • IRAQ'S WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION: THE ASSESSMENT OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT
    • "But in light of the debate about Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), I wanted to share with the British public the reasons why I believe this issue to be a current and serious threat to the UK national interest."
    • "In recent months, I have been increasingly alarmed by the evidence from inside Iraq that despite sanctions, despite the damage done to his capability in the past, despite the UN Security Council Resolutions expressly outlawing it, and despite his denials, Saddam Hussein is continuing to develop WMD, and with them the ability to inflict real damage upon the region, and the stability of the world."

September: Summary

October

  • 2002-10-09: "Weapons of Mass Destruction: Where's the Proof?"
    • "The Bush administration is still groping for reasons to launch a war that will make sense to the American public. Tony Blair's "dossier" won't do the job."
    • "The dossier, entitled "Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction," is full of qualifiers: "if," "probably," "possibly," "might be," "could," "suspected," and "may be." The hard evidence is lacking."

The Policy

It is now officially announced that

  • USA will invade Iraq
  • USA will run propaganda to justify the invasion and say
    • Iraq harbors "Al-Qaeda terrorist"
    • Iraq has "Weapons of mass destruction"
    • Iraq has nuclear weapons.
  • USA and Britan in reality has the same government

2003

Januar

NATO redefinert

  • 2003-01-15: NATO, Iraq and the German-American Waltz +
    • "In five minutes, President Bush and President Havel redefined NATO’s territory of influence from a focus on Europe to a focus on the Middle East. The new mission would include protecting the alliance from the threats of terrorists and tyrants, and the degree of cooperation on engagement in Iraq would be a measuring stick of the alliance’s identity. Until just days before the summit, General Harald Kujat, the head of the NATO military council, among others, was denying that Iraq was a subject for NATO."
    • "Yet in Prague, not a single ally spoke against this new stated vision statement for NATO, which one commentator at the summit paraphrased as "keep democrats in, tyrants out and terrorists down" as a substitute for NATO’s Cold War mission to "keep the Americans in, the Russians out and the Germans down."

Brainstorming: Ideas on how to justify war

  • 2003-01-31: Bush and Blair discussed using American Spyplane in UN colours to lure Saddam into war.
    • Source: The White House memo +
    • "Channel 4 News tonight reveals extraordinary details of George Bush and Tony Blair's pre-war meeting in January 2003 at which they discussed plans to begin military action on March 10th 2003, irrespective of whether the United Nations had passed a new resolution authorising the use of force."
    • "The two leaders discussed the possibility of securing further UN support, but President Bush made it clear that he had already decided to go to war."

Iraq and al-Qaeda

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The US regime started running propaganda that there was a link between the "terrorist" group al-Qaeda and Iraq January 2003. The American people seem to buy it. Many still believe it.

  • 2003-02-06: Al Qaeda-Iraq Connection Tenuous at Best
    • "In his Feb. 5 presentation to the United Nations, Secretary of State Colin Powell repeated the assertion that Saddam Hussein has connections to the terror group al Qaeda. Despite the rhetoric, writes PNS contributor William O. Beeman, no hard evidence has been revealed."
    • "The Bush administration wants above all to prove a connection between the al Qaeda terrorist network and Saddam Hussein. Secretary of State Colin Powell tried to do just that in his argument before the United Nations on Feb. 5. Despite his claim that his words were based on "solid sources," Powell's argument was specious and based on deceptive rhetoric."
  • 2003-06-27: U.N. Panel Finds No Iraq Link to Al Qaida
    • "The U.N. terrorism committee has found no evidence linking Iraq to al-Qaida and did not investigate Bush administration claims of such ties, officials said Thursday."

French and German resistance

  • "During a joint press conference, French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder announce that they intend to work together to oppose the Bush administration's plan to invade Iraq." +

NATO resistance

  • NATO denies a request from the Bush administration for military assistance. +

Internet resistance

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February

  • 2003-19-02: (White House Report) TURKEY HAS DECISION TO MAKE, WHITE HOUSE SAYS +
    • "Asked to comment on news reports that the Turkish parliament has put off a previously scheduled vote on whether to allow the U.S. military to use its bases as a launching pad for military action against Iraq, Fleischer said "we have not received any official notification from Turkey about whether they will or will not vote" on that question. This remains an issue that at the moment is not resolved, he said."
    • "Speaking with Qatar's Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Bush reiterated his view that war is a last resort and his intention to continue working through the United Nations, but he also told the emir that Iraq would be disarmed one way or another, Fleischer said."
    • "The United States and the United Kingdom are working on the drafting of an additional resolution on Iraq that will be introduced at the United Nations Security Council either this week or next week, Fleischer told reporters. "
    • "Bush also "emphasized his appreciation for Indonesia's excellent work in counterterrorism cooperation, including the investigation of the Bali bombings," and "thanked President Megawati for her government's efforts to ensure the safety of Americans working in and visiting Indonesia," Fleischer said."

March

20. March: The Invasion

  • On 20. March 2003 Federal government of the United States and United Kingdom forces invaded The sovereign nation of Iraq. 2% of the invading forces came from other countries referred to as "the coalition of the willing".
  • Ground troops from Australia and Poland and marines from Australia, Denmark and Spain were part of the invasion force.
  • The invading forces planned to attack planned to attack simultaneously from north and south, but Turkey decided to deny any official use of its territory.
  • The primary bases for the invasion were in Kuwait and other Persian Gulf nations.

The attack.

  • Explosions were heard in Baghdad at approximately 02:30 UTC (9:30 pm EST)
  • At 03:15 UTC, President George W. Bush announced that he had ordered the invasion forces to launch an "attack of opportunity" against specified targets in Iraq.
  • According to The Pentagon, the opening salvo consisted of
    • 36 Tomahawk missiles and
    • two F-117 launched GBU-27 bombs
  • The targets were said to be high-level Iraqi governmental officials, including Saddam Hussein, and were based on specific intelligence which led the U.S. government to believe it knew his movements. Many civilian homes and offices were hit.

Mai

July

  • 2006-07-09: "White House 'warned over Iraq claim'
    • "The CIA warned the US Government that claims about Iraq's nuclear ambitions were not true months before President Bush used them to make his case for war, the BBC has learned."

2003-07-13: The spies who pushed for war

Julian Borger reports on the shadow rightwing intelligence network set up in Washington to second-guess the CIA and deliver a justification for toppling Saddam Hussein by force

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The agency, called the Office of Special Plans (OSP), was set up by the defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, to second-guess CIA information and operated under the patronage of hardline conservatives in the top rungs of the administration, the Pentagon and at the White House, including Vice-President Dick Cheney.

The ideologically driven network functioned like a shadow government, much of it off the official payroll and beyond congressional oversight. But it proved powerful enough to prevail in a struggle with the State Department and the CIA by establishing a justification for war.

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The OSP was an open and largely unfiltered conduit to the White House not only for the Iraqi opposition. It also forged close ties to a parallel, ad hoc intelligence operation inside Ariel Sharon's office in Israel specifically to bypass Mossad and provide the Bush administration with more alarmist reports on Saddam's Iraq than Mossad was prepared to authorise.

"None of the Israelis who came were cleared into the Pentagon through normal channels," said one source familiar with the visits. Instead, they were waved in on Mr Feith's authority without having to fill in the usual forms.

The exchange of information continued a long-standing relationship Mr Feith and other Washington neo-conservatives had with Israel's Likud party.

In 1996, he and Richard Perle - now an influential Pentagon figure - served as advisers to the then Likud leader, Binyamin Netanyahu. In a policy paper they wrote, entitled A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, the two advisers said that Saddam would have to be destroyed, and Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Iran would have to be overthrown or destabilised, for Israel to be truly safe.

2004

August

  • Demonize to Colonize + by Ramsey Clark
    • "Saddam Hussein was demonized because he refused to surrender the sovereignty and independence of Iraq and its people to demands and plans for U.S. domination and exploitation under its New World Order."
    • "At the very time the Bush administration claims Saddam Hussein committed his most serious atrocities, “gassing his own people,” Kurds at Halabja, in March 1988, near the end of the Iran-Iraq war, U.S. support for the government of Saddam Hussein was at its height. Donald Rumsfeld was a principal player. Stephen C. Pelletiere, the CIA’s senior political analyst of Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, professor at the Army War College from 1988 to 2000 and head of a 1991 U.S. Army investigation into how Iraq would fight a war against the U.S., has repeatedly and publicly absolved Iraq from targeting Kurds at Halabja. See, e.g., New York Times, Jan. 31, 2003, p. A29."

December

2004-12-10

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2005

February

March

  • 2005-03-23: Hijacking Democracy in Iraq
    • "On the surface, this looks like the sometimes messy aftermath of democracy; squabbling, rhetoric, and posturing. The Iraqi elections have been embraced almost universally as a great victory for the forces of democracy, not only in Iraq, but throughout the entire Middle East. The fact, however, is that the Iraqi elections weren't about the free election of a government reflecting the will of the Iraqi people, but the carefully engineered selection of a government that would behave in a manner dictated by the United States. In Iraq, democracy was hijacked by the Americans."
  • 2005-03-15: KBR spent millions getting $82,100 worth of LPG into Iraq
    • "WASHINGTON - Iraq needed fuel. Halliburton Co. was ordered to get it there — quick. So the Houston-based contractor charged the Pentagon $27.5 million to ship $82,100 worth of cooking and heating fuel."

May

May 24, 2005

May 24, 2005. New York, N.Y.

  • Craig Whitney gave some interesting statements:
    • "The main reason that the Bush administration gave for going to war against Iraq, as we should remember, was that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction [WMD] and links with the terrorists or the kind of terrorists who had carried out the 9/11 attacks against the United States. But we now know that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction to speak of in 2003, when we went to war."
    • "Does it matter to Americans that our country went to war on a false premise?"
    • "People in a democracy I think, need to know why their elected leaders make mistakes when they make them, and voters need to be able to draw their own conclusions about what went wrong when things go wrong. And that’s why Public Affairs commissioned this book, The WMD Mirage, which collects basic documents from the United States and from the United Nations with the idea of offering readers, voters, a factual starting point at least to help build an understanding of what went wrong and what’s been done to try to right the wrong, because WMD has not gone away as an issue in America’s and the world’s attempts to deal with two other important countries: Iran and North Korea."
  • Charles Duelfer:
    • "Secondly, and we describe this in some detail in the report, there was a greater concern than we could appreciate sitting here in Washington of the threat posed by Iran. And we just, you know, that our gut feeling for that was not the same as the gut feeling one would have sitting in Baghdad, where you had invaded and killed a lot of those people, and then every once in a while they were throwing rockets at you, so there was an ongoing conflict there. And Saddam was certainly aware of the WMD assessments of Iran and he created intentionally a certain ambiguity about what his capabilities were. So there were mixed motivations."

June

June 15, 2005

  • Unleashing the Resistance
    • "Yet, as Robert Shetterly and others have pointed out, accountability for George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and the rest of the war gamers is not likely. At this time, impeachment for Bush and Cheney is politically impossible."
    • "How do the Iraqi insurgents do it? How are they defending themselves from the oppressive U.S. managed state in Baghdad? How are they killing it?"
    • "Some resist passively, some actively. They don’t understand everything that is happening, but most Iraqis have decided to pursue one or more of the countless paths of resistance to the state. Iraqis, like Russians and East Europeans before them, honed these skills under Saddam Hussein, as we hone our skills today in early totalitarian America."
    • "They love their country, and have no intention of permanently leaving its future in the hands of either the Americans or beholden U.S. allies in the region, be they of Saudi, Kuwaiti, Turkish or Israeli persuasion."

Napalm

  • 2005-06-27: Incinerating Iraqis; the napalm cover up
    • "Two weeks ago the UK Independent ran an article which confirmed that the US had "lied to Britain over the use of napalm in Iraq". (06-17-05) Since then, not one American newspaper or TV station has picked up the story even though the Pentagon has verified the claims. This is the extent to which the American "free press" is yoked to the center of power in Washington. As we've seen with the Downing Street memo, (which was reluctantly reported 5 weeks after it appeared in the British press) the air-tight American media ignores any story that doesn't embrace their collective support for the war. The prospect that the US military is using "universally reviled" weapons runs counter to the media-generated narrative that the war was motivated by humanitarian concerns (to topple a brutal dictator) as well as to eliminate the elusive WMDs. We can now say with certainty that the only WMDs in Iraq were those that were introduced by foreign invaders from the US who have used them to subjugate the indigenous people."

November

  • 2005-11-15: Scott Ritter Tells the Complete Story Why We're in Iraq
    • "It Begins with the CIA's Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein"
    • "The problem comes when you bring in a CIA official who says that he or she is going to help you, but their real orders are coming not from the United Nations but from Washington, D.C. or Langley. And those orders are to use the inspection process to facilitate regime change in Iraq. They inherently corrupt the process. It's not that we were duped by the CIA. It's that the CIA behaved in a disingenuous manner."
  • 2005-11-28: "Operation Skim Iraq": U.S. attempted to plant WMD in Iraq
    • "Last year, the British Prime Minister Tony Blair stated that weapons of mass destruction may never be found in Iraq, the first admission from the U.S. or UK governments of fallibility over the central justification they both gave for invading Iraq and toppling its leader, Saddam Hussein, according to The Guardian"
    • "Nelda Rogers, 28, a veteran de-briefer for the Department of defense (DOD), revealed on Al Martin Raw.com, an online subscriber-based news/analysis service which provides "Political, Economic and Financial Intelligence, that: “A U.S. covert operation team had attempted to plant weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.”"
    • "The team was later lost as they were killed by friendly fire. The operation included 100 people and was “manned” by ex-military personnel."
  • 2005-11-22: Key Bush Intelligence Briefing Kept From Hill Panel
    • "The September 21, 2001, briefing was prepared at the request of the president, who was eager in the days following the terrorist attacks to learn all that he could about any possible connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda."
    • "Much of the contents of the September 21 PDB were later incorporated, albeit in a slightly different form, into a lengthier CIA analysis examining not only Al Qaeda's contacts with Iraq, but also Iraq's support for international terrorism. Although the CIA found scant evidence of collaboration between Iraq and Al Qaeda, the agency reported that it had long since established that Iraq had previously supported the notorious Abu Nidal terrorist organization, and had provided tens of millions of dollars and logistical support to Palestinian groups, including payments to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers."
  • 2005-11-29: Status Northern Iraq
    • "DNO is pleased to announce that commencement of drilling of its first well within the Kurdish Region of Northern Iraq has been confirmed."

Random Iraq civilians murdered

  • 2005-11-27: Video prompts probes into security in Iraq
    • "LONDON -- A video appearing to show private security guards in Baghdad randomly shooting Iraqi civilians has sparked two investigations after it was posted on the Internet."
  • 2005-11-27: 'Trophy' video exposes private security contractors shooting up Iraqi drivers
    • A "trophy" video appearing to show security guards in Baghdad randomly shooting Iraqi civilians has sparked two investigations after it was posted on the internet, the Sunday Telegraph can reveal.
  • The 'Trophy Video': Bloodthirsty Contractors Randomly Shoot Iraqi Drivers Dead
  • 2005-11-27: A Journey That Ended in Anguish +
    • "So it was only natural that Westhusing acted when he learned of possible corruption by U.S. contractors in Iraq. A few weeks before he died, Westhusing received an anonymous complaint that a private security company he oversaw had cheated the U.S. government and committed human rights violations. Westhusing confronted the contractor and reported the concerns to superiors, who launched an investigation."
    • "In e-mails to his family, Westhusing seemed especially upset by one conclusion he had reached: that traditional military values such as duty, honor and country had been replaced by profit motives in Iraq, where the U.S. had come to rely heavily on contractors for jobs once done by the military."

December

Human Life is not really that important compared to profit?

  • 2005-11-29: Status Northern Iraq
    • "DNO is pleased to announce that commencement of drilling of its first well within the Kurdish Region of Northern Iraq has been confirmed."
  • 2005-12-01: Kurdish Oil Deal Shocks Iraq's Political Leaders
    • "BAGHDAD — A controversial oil exploration deal between Iraq's autonomy-minded Kurds and a Norwegian company got underway this week without the approval of the central government here, raising a potentially explosive issue at a time of heightened ethnic and sectarian tensions."
  • 2005-12-01: Kurd oil deal alarms Iraqi Sunnis
    • "News that a foreign firm has begun drilling for oil in Iraq's Kurdish north has sparked new fears of secession among Sunni leaders. "

2006

Mars

  • 2006-03-06: Dave Zweifel: Another Iraq story gets debunked +
    • "The story of Saddam training foreign fighters to hijack airplanes was instrumental in building the case to invade Iraq," a detailed report in the March-April issue says. "But it turns out that the Iraqi general who told the story to the New York Times and 'Frontline' was a complete fake a low-ranking former soldier whom Ahmed Chalabi's aides had coached to deceive the media."
  • 2006-03-23: Depleted Uranium For Dummies +
    • "During the early aerial bombardment and later tank war, President Bush and Secretary Cheney authorized the use of massive amounts of depleted uranium armaments for the first time in the history of warfare. This material is produced only by the United States and had been used experimentally in Vietnam and the 1973 Israel-Arab War. Internal Department of Defense reports had warned since 1943 about its use, and accurately predicted its poison gas effects on our troops."

April

Oktober

  • 2006-10-19: The Independent: Bush compares Iraq to Vietnam
    • "US President George Bush has compared the intensifying violence in Iraq to the Tet offensive in Vietnam 38 years ago."
    • "My gut tells me that they have all along been trying to inflict enough damage that we'd leave. And the leaders of al Qaida have made that very clear."

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