WHY BUSH INVADED IRAQ
By Peter Fredson

August 24, 2005

Let me see if I got it right. Bush is away on a long vacation when teams of
Muslims, most of them from Saudi Arabia, crash 3 planes into government
installations, another falls into a field, but none were intercepted despite
considerable intelligence that this might happen. So Bush and Cheney get
into planes, and scoot into bunkers. Later they make speeches while letting
their Saudi Arabian oil partners fly out of possible embarrassment. And this
is the reason their supporters call their actions heroic, courageous and
strong leadership?

Osama bin Laden makes a speech about Muslim outrage with the Bush family
trampling on Muslim beliefs so Bush retaliates by sending thousands of
American troops into Afghanistan where bin Laden has training camps for
people who are also outraged at American bullying in the Middle East.

Troops trot up and down Afghan mountains, blow up caves, houses, and catch
several thousand people who live in the area and hold them indefinitely,
many years later, without charges but with abundant abuse and torture to
find out why those people dislike us. Bush lawyers declare that as War
President he can do about anything he wants, and his Attorney General forges
a Hitlerian version of a Patriot Act to give Bush god-like powers without
fear of retribution from Senate or Supreme Court.

Then Bush, who lets bin Laden escape, decides that God has appointed him
Guardian of Morals of the World, declares Saddam Hussein Evil, and several
countries as The Axis of Evil, and sends waiting troops into Iraq. His very
first action is to seize the oil ministry and the oil fields, while
practicing Christian Shock-and-Awe on helpless Muslims in order to get
Saddam Hussein out of power. He succeeds brilliantly in killing thousands of
Muslims, destroying their homes, factories, installations, electricity,
water and hospitals...but, Thank God, the Oil is saved.

The next act is to give good friends of ***** Cheney the god-given command of
extracting Iraqi oil without contract, because the oil is ours although it
is under Iraqi sand. Meanwhile our troops brilliantly kill thousands more
Muslims and make their daily lives a living Hell, while Bush makes speeches
about Freedom, Liberty and Democracy. He also makes speeches about
sovereignty, and declares MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. He becomes a great hero to
his True Believer supporters, lobbyists, neo-cons, corporate executives and
Republican Congresspeople.

He conquered a people previously beaten by his daddy, whose munitions, arms
and vehicles were outmoded, but whose stock of Weapons of Mass Destruction
threatened the entire world, and then mysteriously disappeared when we went
looking for them. The entire Bush cabinet made speeches day and night about
mushroom clouds, pilotless planes, aluminum tubes, yellow cake, and imminent
danger from intentions. We found Saddam trying to escape by living in a
small hole and put him by Bush's god-like authority into indefinite
detention without access to legal counsel except by grace of George Bush and
Donald Rumsfeld.

Then we found all of the reasons to invade, conquer and occupy Iraq were
based on lies, deception, and deliberate misinformation. We found English
memos that Bush and his companions had planned the entire operation before
the tragedy of 9/11. This seems to have escaped the attention of most of the
media and the congress, who are busy discussing important news of missing
brides and Michael Jackson.

Now we have learned the real reasons for the bullying, aggression, violence,
death and destruction. They are, in order,

Seize some of the Earth's dwindling supply of oil for ourselves.

Seize land in Iraq to build huge permanent military bases where we can store
planes, explosives, nuclear devices and troops.

Dominate the entire Middle East, seize more oil and land for more bases.

Build a huge 1,800 staff embassy from which we can send bullies, CIA, and
other spies to dominate the Arab world.

Pretend to give sovereignty to the conquered nation, by installing puppets
personally chosen by the Bush sycophants, immunizing ourselves from
prosecution from war crimes, but planning for an indefinite occupation.

Declare that we have brought Freedom, Democracy, Liberty and Peace to Iraq
and show how ridiculous and satirical that is by smirking at the stupidity
of the American public and the complicity of much of Congress and the
Supreme Court.

Let Bush Strut, Swagger, and claim victor's laurels equal to Julius Caesar
to the applause of Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and Karl Rove, and retire
to Crawford, Texas as a master of deception and violence equaled only by
Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

Of course, every Bush supporter will vehemently deny that any of the above
happened. They will swear that Bush is honest as Nixon, that God told Bush
to kill Muslims, that soldiers cannot complain at being sent to their deaths
to get oil for neocon corporations, and that Freedom, Liberty and Democracy
were spread, like manure from the Bush ranch, all over the Middle East. Most
of all, they too want Bush to get on with his life and not bother with
troublesome mothers whose sons were killed by Bush lies.