"official secrets" highlights lies of iraq war

U.S government then failed to get U.N resolution, and launched the invasion anyway,  withdrawing the weapons inspectors and issuing unilateral demand that Saddam Hussein leave Iraq in 48 hours — and then saying the invasion would commence regardless.. ..

what is bernie sanders worried about?

His real position, is that he would have preferred to Saddam Hussein rule Iraq, ignore 14 UN Security Council resolutions, invade and or threaten neighbours and America's allies, rather compared to major wars, to give Iraqi people chance to seek different future.. ..

the new politics of starvation

Driven by the assertion that Iran was involved in the 1983 bombing of marine barracks Beirut, and favoring Saddam Hussein's Iraq in Iraq- Iran, U.S president imposed additional sanctions on Islamic Republic and, in 1987, banned all imports from Iran.. ..

no, bernie’s not anti-war

In 1998 Sanders voted favor of Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, 'It should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from Iraq and to promote the emergence of government to replace that regime... Later that same year, '..

why iran needs a war economy

Indeed, the plan of a war economy should not be very difficult for Iran to implement since it has a relatively successful experience of carrying out such a plan: during the 8-year war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, Iran embarked on an extensive state-guided economic management that..

monthly review

In January 2008 Center for Public Integrity released the results of two-year study, entitled documenting Bush administration's numerous lies with regard to Saddam Hussein's Iraq between September 2001 and September 2003. ..

kerry spins his record on iraq

But knowing ahead of time that our military intervention will remove him from power, and that we will then inherit all or much of the burden for building post- Saddam Hussein Iraq, is all the more reason to insist on process that invites support from the region and from our..

false pretenses

Bush and seven of his administration's top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, made at least 935 false statements in the two years following September 11, 2001, about the security threat posed by Saddam..

war resolution heads to congress

In Rumsfeld told lawmakers United Nations already has evidence to take action against the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein... ... No terrorist state poses greater and more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of..

u.s. shouldn't pick foreign leaders

For example, it was United States that provided both military and economic support to Iraq and Saddam Hussein. At least for awhile, during the latter stages of the Iran- Iraq, Saddam Hussein was our boy in the Middle East. ..

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