Document Reveals Mr. Bush Took Aim at Iraqi Oil Before the 2000 Election------

Answers Why Mr. Cheney Has
Fought So Hard to Keep Secrets

http://www.yuricareport.com/Energy/BushWarPlansFoundInEnergyPolicy.html

This war destabilized the entire region, hobbled Iran's natural enemy, and lined the pockets of corporations like Haliburton. When Cheney said "If you don't vote for us, you won't be safe" three days before the 2004 presidential election, it sent chills up my spine. What a cruel, sad joke this war has been. I still believe this whole thing was manufactured just so the U.S would have an excuse to have a presence in the region. We will never leave until our nation implodes from within. We are following the course of all great empires, and none of them are around now. Can't we learn anything?

Perhaps it is too early to tell whether Bush, his administration, and the then Congress were right.  Powell's briefing to the United Nations certainly did not justify our actions. 

I just hope you share the results of this survey with Congress and every media outlet on the planet. 

It is time America quit trying to police the world at the expense of the American taxpayer and economy. Remember the Afghanistanwar is what ended the cold war...the Russians spent themselves into bankruptcy and now we are now not only following their path but doubling up with Iraq. Iraq is a rich country in oil resources whying are we paying the bill to make their country safe?? I predict that after we leave they'll want us back and this time we should make them pay the entire bill including all the follow on medical costs of treating our wounded soldiers. If we are going to be the policeman of the world then we should get paid for it.

Unless you have been there shut the ***** up! Do any of you really believe they were better off under the old regimes!!! If not now then maybe when we are too weak to do anything.

Perhaps it is too early to tell whether Bush, his administration, and the then Congress were right.  Powell's briefing to the United Nations certainly did not justify our actions. 

I just hope you share the results of this survey with Congress and every media outlet on the planet. 

I voted "no" in the poll. The only reason we were (are) there is to have access to oil. Saddam let us have that, we just didn't like his politics so President Bush lied to us and told us there were weapons of mass destruction there. Off the armed forces went. Even when it was shown they lied, no one called him on it. To make matters worse, Obama played right along with the war. Sooner or later the area there is going to run out of oil. That's what we need to be planning for, not garbage who is ruling those places right now. No country in the middle east is our "friend". They take our billions for the oil, but that's about it. In this country there are too many families mourning the loss of a loved one who died there. No amount of oil is worth ONE American life. Once we get that through our heads, we will be far better off.

The Iraq war is a dark chapter of American history. An illegal, unprovoked war initiated by the Bush administration and Cheney Inc based on scraps of faulty intelligenced patched together with a mosaic of outright lies.

This was Cheney/Bush war. Had we put the resources in Afghanistan that we put in Iraq we could have obliterated both the Taliban and Alqueda (spelling), as well as getting Bin Laden. We would not have emptied our treasury and as much as I didn't like Hussein he at least knew how to keep terrorists out of his country as well as keeping Iran at bay. We just opened a whole can of worms by going into Iraq, and our young men and women payed a heavy price for what? As soon as we leave Iran will just step in and crush the opposition and Israel, Europe, and the US will be worse of because of it.

"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes...known instruments to bring the many under control of the few...No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."

These words were uttered by James Madison. I find it ironic that the right wants to refer to the Founding Fathers. The truth is that the Founding Fathers did not want the country we have become, especially George Washington. The US has become the Empire the Founders despised. They knew it would lead to the collapse of liberty and freedom. The populace of the US has been so dumbed down that very few know the real history of this country. WE are now dealing in mythology and pure fiction. The US century is coming to an end.

Most Americans fail to recognize that these ongoing wars have little to do with keeping the country safe and everything to do with enriching the military industrial congressional complex. Americans might be surprised to learn that little of the money spent on so called defense is actually being used for NATIONAL defense. What will the END look like??????????.

BIG surprise, everyone has an opinion on what we should have did, hind sight is 20/20. As someone who served in the arm forces and knows nothing about nothing, I believe that the war in Iraq was for naught. We destabilized the middle east and took out the only thing the whole region feared, Saddam Hussein. From the oil aspect, gasoline is still $3.30 a gallon. Politically, we have gained nothing, for goodness sakes we can not even leave the Country for fear of it being taken over immediately. The world is probably a safer place and Saddam and Osama got what was coming to them but I believe that America would have been better off taking out the latter and letting the fore mentioned continue his intimidation tactics while we contined using ours on him. Nothing has changed, a new threat has replaced Iraq and it is directly east. By the time we decided to take that threat out a new one will be ready to ascend to the top. America needs to start taking care of America. We need to focus our efforts on creating jobs and keeping jobs at home, taking care of our veterans and elderly and set an example that Americans and the World can be proud of.

Of course we should never go to war

Still beating our self up for beating japan.  We were supposed to arrest each jap perl harbor pilot, and after a lengthly trial of each appologize and bow to them

Dont even consider the $ cost, all of them are not worth the leg of a single american soldier. Neither are any of the american lefties than turn on our boys.

Our only hope  Let them have nukes,  Program all our nukes for every islam capital and let them go.

At least next time we emerge from the caves it wil be from a world free of islam

please forgive all the typos

Forgot to add ..and balmycare would still be 8000 years in the future.

Dick Cheney got exactly what he wanted when they invaded Iraq under false pretenses; to take away their sovereignty for a while, controlling the country, thus, controlling the oil; a nice fat deposit into the Strategic Reserves (oil that we never use except in times of GREAT WAR or dire peril); and Halliburton 'winning' the bid to rebuild Iraq (the fix was in), which he still receives income from in the form of "Deferred Compensation"which is synonomous with kick-back. There's a special place in Hell waiting for George W. & "Slick" Dick Cheney.

The word Evil has been used to descibe Dick Cheney, and starting a war for profit is about as Evil as it gets.

No.

This was a senseless war. Nothing has been accomplished accept death, destruction and hatred. It should never have happened.

I PROMISE YOU THAT IF I SPENT 700 BILLION ,I WOULD HAVE ALLOT OF FRIENDS . but not our government ,,,, they can spend 700 plus and pisss the whole world off

Yes, Saddam is gone. I won't take that away from those who supported the war and I certainly won't take that away from those who fought. Besides the cost in blood and treasure, we diverted resources from the fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan and created a power vacuum that allowed exporters of terrorism like Iran and Syria to gain influence. Then there's also the not so small matter that Iran is acutally developing WMDs. Only a President as worthless as George W Bush could have decided to launch a preemptive war against the wrong country.

The fact that Saddam is now gone and that Iraq is now a democracy that may or may not florish does not justify the Iraq war.

We created a THEOCRACY, similar to Iran's. We killed a lots of Sunnies and made the Shiites

the killing group. One million christians left the country and several million Iraquies, left also.

We did a favor for Israel by eliminating a military regime from its eastern region. In fact the

planners for this war were all from Israel. All our polititians go to Israel to get approval before elections of any kind.  Now it is Iran's turn.  Wander , who runs the USA's foreign policy.

This just confirms what many countries around believe...that the United States of Cooporate America is the most evil, bloodthirsty nation in the world , out for money and oil with a government that will stop at nothing , to get what it wants. BUSH, CHENEY AND RUMMY SHOULD BE IN PRISON FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES.