Was Oil The Main Reason For Invading Iraq? New Documents Question The Official Reason

A British Army soldier investigates a large fire near Basra's Shuiba refinery. Reuters

Secret Memos Expose Link Between Oil Firms And Invasion Of Iraq -- The Independent

Plans to exploit Iraq's oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world's largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role in invading Iraq, government documents show.

The papers, revealed here for the first time, raise new questions over Britain's involvement in the war, which had divided Tony Blair's cabinet and was voted through only after his claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

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My Comment: Were there discussions on Iraq's oil reserves before the invasion .... I would be surprised if there was not. But was this the primary reason on why the invasion was done .... I would be saying no. In fact, if I was to compile a list of reasons on why there was an invasion, I would place Iraq's oil riches at number 3 and 4 with WMDs, Saddam Hussein's support of terror groups and his history of invading his neighbors, and a determination to change the political culture in the Middle East as being the main reasons why the decision to invade Iraq was made.

IraqBodyCount on the Chilcot Inquiry :

"Throughout the inquiry most of the attention has remained firmly fixed, fixated even, upon the interplay between political and military actors here and in the USA, and the ramifications of the war as felt by them, while the subject that is of greatest concern to the greatest number of people, here as in Iraq, gets only brief mentions."

Make it theatre and the crowd will hoot and holler.

Surely this is no accident. Let the media feast on the personality conflicts between "top ranking" militatoids and bizarrely grinning politicians so the public will be distracted from the undeniable truth that the UK went to war on Iraq against the will of the people and failed to secure the lives of the Iraqi people, leading to the deaths of more than 100,000 (The Lancet still insists the civilian death is six or seven times that estimated by Iraq Body Count) and the near total destruction of Iraq's infrastructure.

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Fuck The War



Fuck The War : The Movie is coming to DVD and torrents in November, 2010.

In 2003, during anti-War On Iraq protests, the Australian prime minister was kidnapped by an activist and interrogated for 24 hours. The disappearance of the prime minister was officially covered up as an "unexpected visit to the hospital", but a documentary maker, shooting interviews during the largest anti-war protests in Australian history, captured most of the interrogation on camera. Now, seven years later, the footage is being made public for the first time.

More Clips From 'Fuck The War' Here

"Today, I Weep For My Country"

Senator Robert Byrd was called everything from a traitor to treasonous, anti-American to Saddam comfort giver for this incredible, powerful speech the night American bombs began to slam in Baghdad, back in March 2003.

Senator Byrd was right, of course, about almost everything in this speech. Which is why he was attacked so viciously, ruthlessly, by the media. Too much fucking truth :









Nobody listened, he was just a crazy old man, who'd seen it all before during World War 2, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War I, decades of the war machine devouring trillions of American wealth, and millions of American lives, for too little gain.

Senator Byrd died today.

Where are these voices of opposition to war, all war, today in the American government? Who is asking these questions?

Call It What It Is : Foxoganda

For the United States - after 5000 lives lost, 50,000 + seriously wounded and more than $1 trillion spent - the Iraq Was is over, so Fox News celebrates by censoring the applause of American soldiers when President Obama discusses the end of the war at West Point Military Academy :



Could that pause have been anymore obvious?

You can compare the Fox News silencing of American military to this uncensored version of the Obama address at West Point, with plenty of applause.

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80-90% of America's combat troops have been withdrawn from Iraq since Barack Obama made this campaign promise in November, 2007 :

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