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"President Bush Knows the True
Reasons He Started A War in Iraq,
But He's Not Going to Tell"
by Jason Leopold
http://www.opednews.com
Every year, right around the anniversary of 9/11
the Bush administration spins the public about the
reasons 1,864 American soldiers have died
fighting for a lie in Iraq. And every year, it’s just
as crucial that the media tell the public the truth
about the reasons the war was started. So here
goes. The disinformation campaign the White
House launched last weekend should leave no
doubt that the war in Iraq was hatched well
before 9/11 and is part of a broader strategy
to remake the entire Middle East into a so-called
Pax Americana, a blueprint drafted by hardcore
neoconservatives years ago that called for
overthrowing Middle East dictators and installing
U.S. approved governments in the region. It’s
entirely likely that the administration will attempt
to sell Congress and the public another war in the
near future, the next likely target being Iran. How
else should we interpret the following statement
Bush made in Utah Monday, during a speech
he made to Veterans of Foreign Wars?“The third
part of our strategy in the war on terror is to
spread the hope of freedom across the broader
Middle East,” Bush said. As public support for
the Iraq war erodes, President Bush and Vice
President Dick Cheney have taken their propaganda
campaign on the road, once again linking the war
in Iraq to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, in hopes that
the administration can dramatically change
perception of the military conflict in Iraq, even
though a half-dozen federal investigations have
concluded that Iraq played no role in 9/11.In
the book “The Price of Loyalty,” Bush’s former
Treasury Secretary, Paul O’Neill said that the
Iraq war was planned just days after the president
was sworn into office. “From the very beginning,
there was a conviction, that Saddam Hussein was
a bad person and that he needed to go,” O’Neill
said, adding that going after Saddam Hussein was
a priority 10 days after the Bush’s inauguration
and eight months before Sept. 11.