The need is acute for a similar truth-telling in the U.S., but not only for the sake of an accurate record. If George Bush is not held accountable for invading sovereign nations at will, future presidents will be empowered to do likewise.
Defining Facts About the Wars of Aggression
The magnitude of George Bush's criminality is apparent in the following truths, fully documented in the narrative to follow:
1. The Bush Administration declared its formal commitment to the invasion of Iraq just ten days after taking office, on January 30, 2001. This was seven months prior to the terrorism events of 9/11. (Planning for an attack on Afghanistan was underway later in the spring.)
2. Also in January Mr. Bush appointed Vice President Cheney to chair a "National Energy Policy Development Group." By early February the Group was studying maps of Iraqi oil fields, pipelines, refineries, tanker terminals, and undeveloped exploration blocks.
3. A top-secret National Security Council memorandum dated February 3, 2001 spoke explicitly about "...the capture of new and existing oil and gas fields."
4. A full year before Congress authorized military action in Iraq, the State Department undertook a policy-development study called "The Future of Iraq Project."
a. It worked out a protocol for transferring control of 81% of the undeveloped oil fields in Iraq to American and British oil companies.
b. The plan eventually became the template for the draft "hydrocarbon law" in postwar Iraq.
c. President Bush, on January 10, 2007 made passage of the law a mandatory "benchmark "for continued U.S. support of the Maliki regime in Iraq.
5. Osama bin Laden's attacks on 9/11 provided a spectacular smokescreen for the premeditated invasions. To bring Osama bin Laden to justice, President Bush declared a "global war on terror."
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