Helen Thomas: Bush Should Explain Why He Invaded Iraq

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Helen Thomas: Bush Should Explain Why He Invaded Iraq
By Helen Thomas
Thursday, 22 March 2007

WASHINGTON -- As the nation marks the fourth anniversary of the war against Iraq, we still await an explanation from President Bush about why he invaded that oil-rich Middle Eastern country.

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Under international law, the only reason to go to war is when a nation is attacked or when it has a treaty with a nation under attack. Those weren't the circumstances four years ago when this president made the decision to take the nation into war, with the backing of a rubber-stamp Republican-led Congress.

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In his weekly radio address Saturday, Bush said "Congress has no greater obligation than funding our war fighters." He also threatened to veto any legislation setting a timetable for a pullout from that benighted country.

I think the president has no greater obligation than to explain to the American people why they should kill and be killed in U.S-occupied Iraq.

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1. Helen is waxing rhetorical but here are the real reasons

The two fundamental reasons are (1) Oil, and (2) Israel. But the mechanical reasons are (1) the neocon lobby, (2) Cheney as VP, and (3) Bush's desire to prove himself and best his father. The neocons focused mainly on the needs of Israel (the WMD they were truly concerned about were Scuds aimed at Israel), but Cheney and Rumsfeld may have been more focussed on oil.

http://zfacts.com/p/775.html