Real Reason For Iraq Invasion Revealed

Cheney OK With Torture, Admits To War Crimes

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Cheney unrepentant on Guantanamo

ISTANBUL – The U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay should remain open indefinitely, Vice-President Dick Cheney told ABC News in an interview, while he also defended the practice of subjecting detainees to simulated drowning during questioning, known as waterboarding.

The vice president was asked on late Monday that when the United States could responsibly close the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which was set up to hold detainees in the war on terror launched after Sept. 11.”

Well, I think that would come with the end of the war on terror,” Cheney said. “And when is that?” he asked.

“Well, nobody knows,” Cheney replied. “Nobody can specify that.”

The vice-president also admitted he was aware that waterboarding was used on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged planner of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. ABC asked him if in hindsight he thought the tactics went too far. “I don’t,” Cheney said.

In previous wars the United States has “always exercised the right to capture the enemy and then hold them till the end of the conflict. That’s what we did in World War II with, you know, thousands, hundreds of thousands of German prisoners,” Cheney said, as reported Agence France-Presse.

“The same basic principle ought to apply here in terms of our right to capture the enemy and hold them,” he added.

The other option, Cheney said, “is to turn them over to somebody else. A lot of them, nobody wants. I mean, there’s a great resistance sometimes in the home countries to taking these people back into their own territory.”

According to Cheney, some 30 detainees who were released from Guantanamo “ended up back on the battlefield again, and we’ve encountered them a second time around. But they’ve either been killed or captured in further conflicts with our forces.”

In another interview with conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, Cheney said Guantanamo “has been very well run” and the incoming administration of Barack Obama would have a difficult time closing it. “Guantanamo has been very, very valuable. And I think they (the Obama administration) will discover that trying to close it is a very hard proposition,” Reuters quoted Cheney as saying. The United States is holding about 250 prisoners at Guantanamo and has released or transferred out another 520.

Taken From — Hurriyet Daily News

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Bush Finds WMDs in Iraq, Umm, or WMHs (Weapons of Mass Humiliation)

The Nation — President Bush finally found the long-missing Weapons of Mass Humiliation in Iraq. Iraqis, millions of them, are wearing them on their feet. Not exactly WMDs, but WMHs will have to do.

Unfortunately, Bush discovered the WMHs when a pair of them sailed past his head at a press conference in Baghdad. The hurler, Muntader al-Zaidi, is already a hero in Iraq, and beyond.

I hope I don’t get in trouble with the Secret Service by saying that I, too, found satisfaction in the display of anger toward Bush, whose reckless war costs hundreds of thousands of lives and destroyed an entire nation. What Zaidi did was to put an exclamation point on Bush’s war, fittingly — and, given the fact that the smoothly bipartisan, rancorless Barack Obama isn’t likely to investigate the crimes of the Bush adminstration in Iraq, it might be all we get before Bush rides off into the Texas sunset. …[READ MORE]

Short Version — The Best Video(s) in Youtube!

Long Version — ‘Truth Serum’

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A courageous Iraqi journalist, Mr. Muntadar al-Zaidi yesterday launched two “NIKE MISSILES” at President George Bush — but he wasn’t quite accurate, or rather, his home run throw was not fast enough, allowing the physically fit LIAR in CHIEF to duck and evade, TWICE!

Mr. al-Zaidi yelled at Bush in Arabic: “This is a farewell … you dog!”

Muntadar al-Zaidi was quickly wrestled to the ground and hauled away.

The odd thing is that prime minister, Al-Maliki, barely MOVED, except for extending his right arm, while Bush was ducking for dear life!…., as the shoes, flung one at a time, sailed past his head during the press conference, with the Prime Minister, in his palace, in the heavily fortified Green Zone.

The shoe-thrower, is an Iraqi journalist with Egypt-based al-Baghdadia television network.

Bush made his last “surprise-visit” to Iraq — to sign a security agreement, ….a.k.a. LUCRATIVE CONTRACTS for his CRONIES ….. in concert with AN EQUALLY CORRUPT PUPPET Iraqi government.

Bush deliberately, utterly and totally destroyed Iraq to pave the way for reconstruction contracts, which have been doled out to his clique of the corporate elite, some without tender. Bush, Paul Bremer, Cheney and cohorts, SOLD Iraq and its people to foreign institutions controlled by the Bush regime, and his last trip to Baghdad was specific — TO SECURE THE LOOT BEFORE OBAMA TAKES OVER!

Nuri al-Maliki and his puppet government are complicit, in the FINAL “BUSH RAPE” OF IRAQ AND ITS PEOPLE.

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My view — It should have been two bullets, not two shoes.

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References:

1. Bush’s bloody legacy — exposing Bush the liar, the mass murderer, the war criminal
2. Shoe-Throwing Mars Bush’s Baghdad Trip — President Defends War in Surprise Farewell Visit Before Ducking an Iraqi Journalist’s Rejoinder

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