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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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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Since yesterday, when John McBOMB‘s chief economic adviser, the “Whining” Phil ‘McGramOfPot’ Gramm got thrown under the straight-talk express wreckage, McCain and Bush have been pivoting towards Obama’s positions on Iraq and Afghanistan, shamelessly trying to camouflage their moves with “benchMURK” talking points like a “general time horizon” for withdrawal from Iraq.

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Obama has consistently stated that he wants the U.S. to start withdrawing from Iraq for re-deployment in Afghanistan within sixteen months.

As Obama landed in Afghanistan today, the German magazine newspaper “Der Spiegel” reported that Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told them that he supported Barack Obama’s proposal that U.S. troops should leave Iraq within 16 months, essentially endorsing Obama, and slapping Bush upside the head.

al-Maliki said: “U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes.”

Asked if he supported Obama’s ideas more than those of John McCain, Republican presidential hopeful, Maliki said he did not want to recommend who people should vote for….”Whoever is thinking about the shorter term is closer to reality. Artificially extending the stay of U.S. troops would cause problems.”

Meanwhile, the White House said on Friday George W. Bush and Maliki had agreed that a security deal under negotiation should set a “time horizon” for meeting “aspirational goals” for reducing U.S. forces in Iraq.

In a speech earlier this week, Obama promised to commit at least two more combat brigades – up to 10,000 men – to Afghanistan, if he wins November’s election. He also said the US military should focus on that country rather than Iraq.

Copycat McCain upped the ante — to 3 brigades. Asked where he would get the troops while bogged in his “100 year Iraq war,” McCain said: “We need to work that out. We need to have greater participation on the part of our NATO allies, as I said in my opening remarks today and we need a lot more help.”

NATO Allies? You mean your cousins in Great Britain?

To the best of my knowledge the Brits are not thrilled at all with this illegal war.

In a campaign stop McCain said: “I know how to win wars. And if I’m elected president, I will turn around the war in Afghanistan, just as we have turned around the war in Iraq.”

And my question is: Which WAR has McCain ever won?

Being caged like an animal in Vietnam — another illegal war that America lost, is not winning, in my opinion.

In Vietnam 2,000,000+ civilian lives were lost, most from South Vietnam. 58,000+ American soldiers also lost their lives in the war.

Just like in Iraq, U.S. military personnel often went on civilian killing rampages — For example:

Nixonian cover-ups and protests followed world wide.

The Vietnam war started because American president Eisenhower did not want “communism to spread throughout the world” and eventually to America. Essentially the U.S. was asked by France, via NATO, to keep the communists from “taking over” the French “Colonial” Territory — Vietnam. A European colonialist (France) asked Neo-European-Colonialist (America) to help it maintain a grip on it’s illegally acquired colony, resulting in Vietnam being split into two, and causing Vietnamese to slit each others throats — just like the Shia and the Sunni have been doing in Iraq — the fruits of an illegal OIL war.

Of late, the U.S has been bribing the Sunnis with the almighty Dollar — hence the “artificial peace.”

“Fear of Communism,”…”Fear of Muslims,”…”Fear of The Obama-Fist-Bump,”…”Fear of Islamo-Fascists,”…”Fear of Black Panthers,”…”Fear of Foreign Languages,”… “Fear of Mexican Immigrants,”…”Fear of a Black President,”…”Fear of Imaginary ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction‘” …RING A BELL?

Lynch them ALL!……AGAIN and AGAIN!

Hallelujah,… Sweet Home Alabama!

That’s what the criminal ‘High Cabal‘ a.k.a The Republican Party has drafted John McCain For — To beat up, lynch, burn, bomb, steal-oil-from and dominate everyone who does not toe the line.

“You are either with us or against us.” — George Bush, November 6, 2001

The world and many Americans are tired of this Moronic Cowboy Republican Dictatorship, and Obama is a much needed fresh face. The whole world is desperately “Clinging To Obama,” and his current tour will only serve to stamp that point.

Contrary to what the right-wing thugs hope — Obama will shine in the Middle-East and in Europe, and will come home fortified and ready to thump McCain’s sorry ass in November — thoroughly well, with or without Hillary Clinton’s racist and un-principled “Angry-White-Whore” army.

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