It was all illegal.

Ewen MacAskill and Julian Borger in Washington
The Guardian
Wednesday 15 September 2004 21.29 EDT

The United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, (click here) declared explicitly for the first time last night that the US-led war on Iraq was illegal.

Mr Annan said that the invasion was not sanctioned by the UN security council or in accordance with the UN's founding charter. In an interview with the BBC World Service broadcast last night, he was asked outright if the war was illegal. He replied: "Yes, if you wish."...

...His remarks come amid a marked deterioration of the situation on the ground, an upsurge of violence that has claimed 200 lives in four days and raised questions over the ability of the interim Iraqi government and the US-led coalition to maintain control over the country....

Ya think? Then they called them insurgents, closed their newspapers and attempted to kill their holy men.

Hans Blix Briefing to the Security Council (click here)

guardian.co.uk

Friday 14 February 2003 12.42 EST

Mr. President,

Since I reported to the Security Council on 27 January, UNMOVIC has had two further weeks of operational and analytical work in New York and active inspections in Iraq. This brings the total period of inspections so far to 11 weeks. Since then, we have also listened on 5 February to the presentation to the Council by the US Secretary of State and the discussion that followed. Lastly, Dr. ElBaradei and I have held another round of talks in Baghdad with our counterparts and with Vice President Ramadan on 8 and 9 February.

Let me begin today's briefing with a short account of the work being performed by UNMOVIC in Iraq.

We have continued to build up our capabilities. The regional office in Mosul is now fully operational at its temporary headquarters. Plans for a regional office at Basra are being developed. Our Hercules L-100 aircraft continues to operate routine flights between Baghdad and Larnaca. The eight helicopters are fully operational. With the resolution of the problems raised by Iraq for the transportation of minders into the no-fly zones, our mobility in these zones has improved. We expect to increase utilization of the helicopters. The number of Iraqi minders during inspections had often reached a ratio as high as five per inspector. During the talks in January in Baghdad, the Iraqi side agreed to keep the ratio to about one to one. The situation has improved....

The United Nations was doing back flips to prove to the USA there was no danger from Iraq. Iraq was disarmed. The ONLY violation notable to any country in the world were Scud Missiles that went 8% long in flight. That violation would allow Iraq missiles to pass over it's sovereign borders. The missiles were confiscated and remain buried in the Iraq desert.

...The inspections have taken place throughout Iraq at industrial sites, ammunition depots, research centres, universities, presidential sites, mobile laboratories, private houses, missile production facilities, military camps and agricultural sites. At all sites which had been inspected before 1998, re-baselining activities were performed. This included the identification of the function and contents of each building, new or old, at a site. It also included verification of previously tagged equipment, application of seals and tags, taking samples and discussions with the site personnel regarding past and present activities. At certain sites, ground-penetrating radar was used to look for underground structures or buried equipment....

This is the family picture Bush wanted to hang on his wall in his Oval Office. He wanted revenge for threats against his father. 

And Cheney? Oh, yeah, Cheney. Well, he cooked the books at Halliburton, you know? Halliburton was heading into the Wall Street toilet when Dick assigned himself as the quintessential Vice President on the GOP ticket of 2000.

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

By Dana Milbank and Justin Blum

Washington Post Staff Writers 

Testifying at a Senate hearing last week were, from left, Lee R. Raymond of Exxon Mobil, David J. O'Reilly of Chevron, James J. Mulva of ConocoPhillips, Ross Pillari of BP America and John Hofmeister of Shell Oil. (By Chip Somodevilla -- Getty Images)

A White House document shows that executives from big oil companies met with Vice President Cheney's energy task force in 2001 -- something long suspected by environmentalists but denied as recently as last week by industry officials testifying before Congress.

The document, obtained this week by The Washington Post, shows that officials from Exxon Mobil Corp., Conoco (before its merger with Phillips), Shell Oil Co. and BP America Inc. met in the White House complex with the Cheney aides who were developing a national energy policy, parts of which became law and parts of which are still being debated....

The Saddam statue was placed at Fort Hood. Fort Hood everyone knows is the place where the American military would later be assassinated by one of their own at the prompting of a treasoned cleric.

Don't tell me for one minute the national media didn't suspect the same impetus to the Iraq War that many of us already knew. There was collusion between the White House, the Cheney Energy Committee and the petroleum industry. In that report to the nation, the entire Middle East was coveted as a source to the USA's fuel needs. 

These testimonies were dominated by corruption beginning with the fact the petroleum companies' executives never had to swear an oath before their answers to Congress.

Don't even try it. The second day the USA illegally invaded Iraq there were already USA deaths and deaths of Iraqi citizens and the petroleum industry was on the oil fields.

Halliburton has never had a problem in the market since that invasion and Cheney was never prosecuted for his violations of stockholder losses during the time he was CEO. As long as he could turn the corner for the company, SOME HOW, ANY WAY, JUST FIND A WAY, his hinny would be safe; not to mention increasing his personal wealth.

The Iraq statue pulled down in the Firdaus Square, Baghdad was melted down, sculpted by an Iraq artist, paid for by USA monies, into a memorial at Fort Hood of the soldiers that died in the oil war. This is where the Saddam stutate lies. That is nothing short of demented.

Now.

About that doctrine of overwhelming force. The military power the USA has in the world is oppressing peace and endangering the national security it claims to protect. 

Today, the USA has more problems with nuclear proliferation in the world, more fear of a nuclear war and seeks to park aggressively it's Star War missiles all over the world. 

The interceptor missiles, in order for them to be effective in achieving peace, has to be deployed everywhere including with the USA's arch enemies; as if there really are any.

That's right. That is the legacy of the Republican Party. They created the USA industrial complex. Promoted Atoms for Peace. Endangered the entire world, including their own people, with the threat of nuclear war, Cheney programmed the USA post Iraq invasion for a so called "Limited Nuclear War;" (Hey, there were a lot of Japanese that survived and had only superficial wounds.) and then Reagan deployed Star Wars to defeat nuclear weapons thinking it would nullify any nuclear threat. What Star Wars actually did is escalate the threat of nuclear proliferation and war.

When will power and money, including the death of American soldiers, stop being THE TOY of the GOP?

When?

Iraq wasn't enough?

We don't belong in Iraq.

We never did.