Facts: THIS PRESENTATION OF BUSH’S LIES AND THE TRUTH, IS BASED ON MEDIA REPORTS AND EYE WITNESS ACCOUNTS.

1. The attack against Iraq was planned long before 9/11 – the Bush family had some unfinished business with Saddam Hussein.

2. Colin Powell then lied through his teeth at the UN building in New York, presenting what he claimed as magnificent intelligence work, complete with reports, satellite photographs and mock-ups with arrows and labels, such as “mobile laboratory“, which he later claimed were being “driven around the desert in vehicles“. Later they claimed that the intelligence was faulty. They have never admitted these lies, for fear of prosecution.

4. There are not, and never were, Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq.

5. The heroic liberators of Iraq were supposed to be welcomed by a grateful population. Great care was taken to photograph what were supposed to be cheering throngs. What we saw were a few dozen bemused and shocked citizens watching on as US troops committed acts of vandalism and wanton destruction, to add to the purposeful targeting of civilian infrastructures which have not recovered today.

6. Bush decided to utterly and totally destroy Iraq to pave the way for reconstruction contracts to be doled out to the clique of the corporate elite which dictate the White House’s policy (not the voters), some of these without tender. Paul Bremer SOLD Iraq and its people to foreign institutions controlled by Bush and his cronies.

7. Long after the US troops pull out (or retreat), the Project Management Office and the US Embassy in Baghdad will continue to control the reconstruction process and funding. Neither will all the troops leave, since there are plans to station over 100, 000 in the country for several years at the 14 permanent military bases being set up around the country, advance bases for strikes against other countries as Washington goes for the throat of the world’s richest region in mineral resources.

8. George Bush’s freedom and democracy is translated into horrific statistics about human casualties, the people he said God had told him to save. The “great care” taken by Washington to reduce civilian casualties included the dropping of brightly-colored, shiny cluster bombs into civilian areas for children to mistake as sweets, only for the explosive fragments to blow up, blowing away their faces, their hands, their legs, their eyes or even their lives. UNICEF estimates that at least 1 million children were mutilated for life in this way.

9. Independent estimates point towards a civilian death rate of between 135,000 and 1,000,000 and a further hundreds of thousands wounded, including women and children, the elderly and babies, blasted through their roofs by George Bush’s freedom and democracy and by the great care of his murderous forces. As for Iraqi soldiers, the estimates are even much higher, for the wounded and dead. Allied casualties are impossible to estimate because of Washington’s lies.

10. Between one and two thousand tonnes of depleted uranium was deployed by the invading forces, polluting the atmosphere and water supply for years to come. The country is strewn with unexploded cluster bombs, mines, grenades, 40% of the water supply was destroyed, sewage treatment plants devastated, spreading disease among a population purposefully weakened by a decade of cruel sanctions, while Iraq was disarming.

11. Electricity supply systems were targeted with such savagery that experts estimate it will take three years to rebuild (a juicy ten billion dollar contract). 7% of the hospitals were hit in military strikes, the country’s vaccine supplies were hit, placing 210, 000+ newborn babies at risk of dying.

| Courtesy: Pravda |