George W. Bush - Iraq
A problem with toxic political debate is ignorance of what actually transpired in Iraq. Much of the information I’ve provided has been available since the early 2000s.
1. Six months after the Iraq Invasion, 400,000 bodies had been exhumed from Saddam’s mass graves.
"This is not just a crime against the Iraqi people, it is a crime against all of humanity … “It is like the genocide during the Second World War.” - Haitham Rashid Wihaib - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-180704/Mass-graves-Iraq.html
“ May 14, 2003 - The largest mass grave found so far in Iraq has been discovered about 60 miles south of Baghdad. "Farmers once grew crops here in this field,’ NPR's Christopher Joyce says in a report for All Things Considered . ‘Now a yellow backhoe takes great divots out of the barren ground. About 1,000 Iraqis watch, held back by a coil of barbed wire. Many hold photographs of missing relatives.’” - http://www.npr.org/news/specials/iraq2003/joyce_030514.html
“ Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children were executed during a systematic attempt to exterminate the Kurdish population in Iraq in the Anfal operations in the late 1980s. They were tied together and shot so they fell into mass graves. Their towns and villages were attacked by chemical weapons, and many women and children were sent to camps where they lived in appalling conditions. Men and boys of ‘battle age’ were targeted and executed en masse.” - http://uk.gov.krd/genocide/pages/page.aspx?lngnr=12&pnr=37
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2. The War in Iraq liberated a nation of 26 million from a brutal dictator. The people who suffered the most are grateful for their freedom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifcx_Epa2gk1
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3. The Frontline episode, Gunning For Saddam (PBS – aired November 8, 2001) Has interviews with high level Iraqi defectors, and video evidence taken by U.N. Inspectors, before Saddam kicked them out, of Hussein’s intent to develop nuclear weapons -
We saw Saddam launch SCUD missiles into neutral Israel during he First Gulf War. Imagine the result if they had nuclear warheads.
- - “ Between 1991 and 1998 the IAEA conducted more than 1500 inspections. IAEA released a report in 1997, with updates in 1998 and 1999, which it believes offers a technically coherent picture of Iraq's nuclear program.”
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- – “the IAEA report says that following the August 1990 invasion of Kuwait, Iraq launched a "crash program" to develop a nuclear weapon quickly by extracting weapons grade material from safe-guarded research reactor fuel. This project, if it had continued uninterrupted by the war, might have succeeded in producing a deliverable weapon.”
- - “The IAEA inspections revealed seven nuclear-related sites in Iraq.”
- - “IAEA did find that "Iraq was at, or close to, the threshold of success in such areas as the production of [highly enriched uranium] ... and the fabrication of the explosive package for a nuclear weapon.”
- “As early as 1996 the IAEA concluded that "the know-how and expertise acquired by Iraqi scientists and engineers could provide an adequate base for reconstituting a nuclear-weapons-oriented program."
- - “Nuclear physicist and Iraqi defector Khidhir Hamza agrees. He told FRONTLINE that Iraq did not relinquish certain critical components of the nuclear program to the inspectors, and that it retains the expertise necessary to build a nuclear weapon.”
- “Note: IAEA was allowed back into Iraq in January 2000 and again in January 2001. But its inspectors were blocked from full access inspections.”
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/etc/arsenal.html
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- 4b. After Saddam’s ouster, an international team including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers set about restoring an environmental sensitive area destroyed by Saddam.
- “ Saddam Hussein drained the unique wetlands of southern Iraq as a punishment to the region's Marsh Arabs who had backed an uprising.”
- “A zzam Alwash is fighting for a marsh which Biblical scholars believe is the site of the Garden of Eden, and which some describe as the cradle of civilization. The Mesopotamians settled in the fertile region in the fifth millenium B.C., and within a few centuries it had become the site of an advanced Sumerian civilization. Scholars believe that cuneiform was invented in the region, as were literature, mathematics, metallurgy, ceramics and the sailboat.” - http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/iraq-s-garden-of-eden-restoring-the-paradise-that-saddam-destroyed-a-709866.html
4b. THE "EDEN AGAIN" PROJECT: Sponsored by the Iraq Foundation
“ The Iraq Foundation sponsored the creation of the Eden Again project in 2003. Eden Again works for the restoration of the southern marshes which were the target of a campaign by the Iraqi government in the early to mid nineties. The environmental and military campaign desiccated the marshlands, destroyed the environment, burnt villages, and drove hundreds of thousands of the indigenous ma'dan population into external exile or internal displacement.”
http://www.iraqfoundation.org/projects_new/edenagain/
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5. Hussein used chemical weapons both against Iran, and his own people. The worst massacre in history was his attack on of Halabja. Thanks in part to the Iraq War, this will not happen again.
“25 Years After Worst Chemical-Weapon Massacre In History, Saddam Hussein's Attack On Halabja in Iraq, The City Is Reborn.”
“First came the blast of the bombs dropped from the jets, followed by a smell of apples. Then the birds the family kept caged in the yard dropped dead. Minutes later, human beings began to die, too. This is how Minira Abdul Qader, then 10, remembers the largest chemical-weapons attack on civilians in history.”
“Qader has progressively become blind as a result of the attack. ““I have been in pain for 25 years, because of my eyes and some breathing problems. I wish I had died the day of the attack.” - Minira Abdul Qader
http://www.ibtimes.com/25-years-after-worst-chemical-weapon-massacre-history-saddam-husseins-attack-halabja-iraq-city
1. Six months after the Iraq Invasion, 400,000 bodies had been exhumed from Saddam’s mass graves.
"This is not just a crime against the Iraqi people, it is a crime against all of humanity … “It is like the genocide during the Second World War.” - Haitham Rashid Wihaib - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-180704/Mass-graves-Iraq.html
“ May 14, 2003 - The largest mass grave found so far in Iraq has been discovered about 60 miles south of Baghdad. "Farmers once grew crops here in this field,’ NPR's Christopher Joyce says in a report for All Things Considered . ‘Now a yellow backhoe takes great divots out of the barren ground. About 1,000 Iraqis watch, held back by a coil of barbed wire. Many hold photographs of missing relatives.’” - http://www.npr.org/news/specials/iraq2003/joyce_030514.html
“ Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children were executed during a systematic attempt to exterminate the Kurdish population in Iraq in the Anfal operations in the late 1980s. They were tied together and shot so they fell into mass graves. Their towns and villages were attacked by chemical weapons, and many women and children were sent to camps where they lived in appalling conditions. Men and boys of ‘battle age’ were targeted and executed en masse.” - http://uk.gov.krd/genocide/pages/page.aspx?lngnr=12&pnr=37
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2. The War in Iraq liberated a nation of 26 million from a brutal dictator. The people who suffered the most are grateful for their freedom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifcx_Epa2gk1
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3. The Frontline episode, Gunning For Saddam (PBS – aired November 8, 2001) Has interviews with high level Iraqi defectors, and video evidence taken by U.N. Inspectors, before Saddam kicked them out, of Hussein’s intent to develop nuclear weapons -
We saw Saddam launch SCUD missiles into neutral Israel during he First Gulf War. Imagine the result if they had nuclear warheads.
- - “ Between 1991 and 1998 the IAEA conducted more than 1500 inspections. IAEA released a report in 1997, with updates in 1998 and 1999, which it believes offers a technically coherent picture of Iraq's nuclear program.”
-
- – “the IAEA report says that following the August 1990 invasion of Kuwait, Iraq launched a "crash program" to develop a nuclear weapon quickly by extracting weapons grade material from safe-guarded research reactor fuel. This project, if it had continued uninterrupted by the war, might have succeeded in producing a deliverable weapon.”
- - “The IAEA inspections revealed seven nuclear-related sites in Iraq.”
- - “IAEA did find that "Iraq was at, or close to, the threshold of success in such areas as the production of [highly enriched uranium] ... and the fabrication of the explosive package for a nuclear weapon.”
- “As early as 1996 the IAEA concluded that "the know-how and expertise acquired by Iraqi scientists and engineers could provide an adequate base for reconstituting a nuclear-weapons-oriented program."
- - “Nuclear physicist and Iraqi defector Khidhir Hamza agrees. He told FRONTLINE that Iraq did not relinquish certain critical components of the nuclear program to the inspectors, and that it retains the expertise necessary to build a nuclear weapon.”
- “Note: IAEA was allowed back into Iraq in January 2000 and again in January 2001. But its inspectors were blocked from full access inspections.”
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/etc/arsenal.html
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- 4b. After Saddam’s ouster, an international team including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers set about restoring an environmental sensitive area destroyed by Saddam.
- “ Saddam Hussein drained the unique wetlands of southern Iraq as a punishment to the region's Marsh Arabs who had backed an uprising.”
- “A zzam Alwash is fighting for a marsh which Biblical scholars believe is the site of the Garden of Eden, and which some describe as the cradle of civilization. The Mesopotamians settled in the fertile region in the fifth millenium B.C., and within a few centuries it had become the site of an advanced Sumerian civilization. Scholars believe that cuneiform was invented in the region, as were literature, mathematics, metallurgy, ceramics and the sailboat.” - http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/iraq-s-garden-of-eden-restoring-the-paradise-that-saddam-destroyed-a-709866.html
4b. THE "EDEN AGAIN" PROJECT: Sponsored by the Iraq Foundation
“ The Iraq Foundation sponsored the creation of the Eden Again project in 2003. Eden Again works for the restoration of the southern marshes which were the target of a campaign by the Iraqi government in the early to mid nineties. The environmental and military campaign desiccated the marshlands, destroyed the environment, burnt villages, and drove hundreds of thousands of the indigenous ma'dan population into external exile or internal displacement.”
http://www.iraqfoundation.org/projects_new/edenagain/
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5. Hussein used chemical weapons both against Iran, and his own people. The worst massacre in history was his attack on of Halabja. Thanks in part to the Iraq War, this will not happen again.
“25 Years After Worst Chemical-Weapon Massacre In History, Saddam Hussein's Attack On Halabja in Iraq, The City Is Reborn.”
“First came the blast of the bombs dropped from the jets, followed by a smell of apples. Then the birds the family kept caged in the yard dropped dead. Minutes later, human beings began to die, too. This is how Minira Abdul Qader, then 10, remembers the largest chemical-weapons attack on civilians in history.”
“Qader has progressively become blind as a result of the attack. ““I have been in pain for 25 years, because of my eyes and some breathing problems. I wish I had died the day of the attack.” - Minira Abdul Qader
http://www.ibtimes.com/25-years-after-worst-chemical-weapon-massacre-history-saddam-husseins-attack-halabja-iraq-city
FOR POSTING
Both Bill Clinton and George Bush were absolved by the 9/11 Commission Report as having nothing to do with the creation of the faulty intelligence.
“Commission chair Thomas Kean declared that both Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were ‘not well served’ by the FBI and CIA.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_Commission_Report
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Six months after the Iraq Invasion, over 400,000 bodies had been exhumed from Saddam’s known mass graves. The invasion of coalition forces put an end to this.
"This is not just a crime against the Iraqi people, it is a crime against all of humanity … “It is like the genocide during the Second World War.” - Haitham Rashid Wihaib - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-180704/Mass-graves-Iraq.html
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“Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children were executed during a systematic attempt to exterminate the Kurdish population in Iraq in the Anfal operations in the late 1980s. They were tied together and shot so they fell into mass graves. Their towns and villages were attacked by chemical weapons, and many women and children were sent to camps where they lived in appalling conditions. Men and boys of ‘battle age’ were targeted and executed en masse.” –
http://uk.gov.krd/genocide/pages/page.aspx?lngnr=12&smap=130000&pnr=37
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The War in Iraq liberated a nation of 26 million from a brutal dictator. The people who suffered the most are grateful for their freedom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifcx_Epa2gk1
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The Frontline episode, Gunning For Saddam (PBS – aired November 8, 2001) Has interviews with high level Iraqi defectors, and video evidence taken by U.N. Inspectors, before Saddam kicked them out, of Hussein’s intent to develop nuclear weapons
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/etc/arsenal.html
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Hussein used chemical weapons both against Iran, and his own people. The worst massacre in history was his attack on of Halabja. Thanks in part to the Iraq War, this will not happen again.
http://www.ibtimes.com/25-years-after-worst-chemical-weapon-massacre-history-saddam-husseins-attack-halabja-iraq-cit
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Saddam Hussein drained the wetlands of southern Iraq as a punishment to the region's Marsh Arabs who had backed an uprising.
After Saddam’s ouster, an international team including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers set about restoring an environmental sensitive area destroyed by Saddam.
http://www.iraqfoundation.org/projects_new/edenagain/
Both Bill Clinton and George Bush were absolved by the 9/11 Commission Report as having nothing to do with the creation of the faulty intelligence.
“Commission chair Thomas Kean declared that both Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were ‘not well served’ by the FBI and CIA.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_Commission_Report
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Six months after the Iraq Invasion, over 400,000 bodies had been exhumed from Saddam’s known mass graves. The invasion of coalition forces put an end to this.
"This is not just a crime against the Iraqi people, it is a crime against all of humanity … “It is like the genocide during the Second World War.” - Haitham Rashid Wihaib - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-180704/Mass-graves-Iraq.html
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“Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children were executed during a systematic attempt to exterminate the Kurdish population in Iraq in the Anfal operations in the late 1980s. They were tied together and shot so they fell into mass graves. Their towns and villages were attacked by chemical weapons, and many women and children were sent to camps where they lived in appalling conditions. Men and boys of ‘battle age’ were targeted and executed en masse.” –
http://uk.gov.krd/genocide/pages/page.aspx?lngnr=12&smap=130000&pnr=37
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The War in Iraq liberated a nation of 26 million from a brutal dictator. The people who suffered the most are grateful for their freedom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifcx_Epa2gk1
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The Frontline episode, Gunning For Saddam (PBS – aired November 8, 2001) Has interviews with high level Iraqi defectors, and video evidence taken by U.N. Inspectors, before Saddam kicked them out, of Hussein’s intent to develop nuclear weapons
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/etc/arsenal.html
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Hussein used chemical weapons both against Iran, and his own people. The worst massacre in history was his attack on of Halabja. Thanks in part to the Iraq War, this will not happen again.
http://www.ibtimes.com/25-years-after-worst-chemical-weapon-massacre-history-saddam-husseins-attack-halabja-iraq-cit
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Saddam Hussein drained the wetlands of southern Iraq as a punishment to the region's Marsh Arabs who had backed an uprising.
After Saddam’s ouster, an international team including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers set about restoring an environmental sensitive area destroyed by Saddam.
http://www.iraqfoundation.org/projects_new/edenagain/