Iraq was premeditated. (Bush)“He was thinking about invading Iraq in 1999,” said author and journalist Mickey Herskowitz. “It was on his mind. He said to me: ‘One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief.’ And he said, ‘My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it.’ He said, ‘If I have a chance to invade….if I had that much capital, I’m not going to waste it. I’m going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I’m going to have a successful presidency.”

It was conspired by Project New American Century by demons such as Cheney, Wolfowitz, Perle, Rumsfeld, others. Cheney’s oil meeting in Jan 2001 laid out Iraq oil map. Even Greenspan admitted Iraq war was for oil. They knew there were no WMD, no connections to 9/11, no danger to U.S. and recall Downing Street Memo Bush was brainstorming how to get Sadaam to make the first move so the US could strike him. (Paint plane in UN colors)

We didn’t go in to liberate Iraq people from dictator, as US generally likes to work with dictators, and installs them given the opportunity, because dictators can be bribed by US corporate interests. (chile, Greece, Iran history as example) If we are all about liberating people, what are we doing in Durfur, Tibet, Sudan, China?

Lancet and John Hopkins reported 2 years ago 1 million dead Iraqi civilians, 5 million refugees. Ask them how the US imposed “democracy” is working out for them. Their land polluted with depleated uranium, birthdefects and cancers huge increases as result of our hardened weapons. Their economy, culture, infrastructure trashed, their middle class and educated gone.

Who ever thinks anything we have done in the Middle East is for the good of that population is criminally ignorant. Bush responsible for mass destruction and seems like he will not be locked up, but a respected journalist who witnessed bloody deaths of his people and couldn’t stand looking at Bush’s smug sour face thinking of his country throws a shoe and gets locked up. Talk about animal farm. war is peace. (another bush quote….”heh heh sometimes…sometimes…money trumps peace.)

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki
Office of the Prime Minister
Baghdad
Iraq

Dear Prime Minister:

I am hereby expressing my deep concerns about the confinement of Journalist Mr. Muntadar al-Zaidi.

I neither support violence nor disruptive behavior but Mr. al-Zaidi’s action was merely an expression of discontent about the ongoing slaughter of humans by U.S. military in Iraq. Mr. Bush was not harmed in any way. On the other hand Mr. Bush is responsible for unimaginable pain and misery among the people of Iraq!

Mr. Bush tried to make the world believe, that the invasion in 2003 was to eliminate the threat of
“Weapons of Mass Destruction”. As we now know, all of it was just a big scheme and clearly just lies!

If his administration would have had the sincere goal to free Iraq’s people from the despot Saddam Hussein, much more effective and less harmful actions could have taken place (e.g. CIA, Secret Service).

His sole purpose was to take control of oil fields and to aim at other commercial propositions such as supporting the arms- and defense industry of the U.S., geostrategic purposes and the expansion of military installations in the Middle East. Not to underestimate the personal financial benefit he has achieved. The actual profiteers of this war are various lobbies respectively the Bush Dynasty and NOT the people of Iraq.

I ask you to please release Mr. M. al-Zaidi immediately.

Thank you!

Kind regards,

You mean to tell me you all missed the Bush admission, the McCain admission, all the obvious signs, the production sharing agreements signed by the current Iraqi puppet government for British and American oil companies, etc., etc.? Allow me to enlighten you all. This war was, is and always will be about one thing – natural resources. More specifically, you guessed it, OIL!

Those who deny this are ignorant of world history. British and U.S. governments, along with a sizable number of charters and corporations, have been architecting the control of middle eastern oil resources for nearly 100 years. And to think, so many people still don’t get it. So many victims of the U.S. public school systems, I guess. It’s a shame.

This journalist put aside his objectivity and assaulted a foreign dignitary. He deserves to be punished for that.

K, let’s review. Guy throws shoes at foreign national during press conference. Guy is dragged off and held in police custody. Family unable to reach him. Guy was not shot on site. Guy’s family was not murdered, beheaded and then paraded around the streets as examples.

A man was able to express his political opinion freely, and had he not resorted to assault and battery with footwear, he might have been able to go home. But because he opted to resort to violence, he’s being held by the police. Typically when one is arrested, one’s possessions are taken away from you, and held until one is released from custody, which is why I don’t give the cell phone statement an iota of credit.

If this had been an American journalist on the White House lawn , it would not have been handled any differently, nor should it have been.

This allusion to Patrick Henry is, of course, entirely appropriate when applied to Iraq, since Patrick Henry was asking the French government to invade and occupy the Colonies in order to expel the vicious George III.

Frankly I wish all you jingoistic “liberty or death” knuckledraggers would choose death and get it over with so the rest of us can get on with our lives.

In my opinion, he deserves a beating of the highest order for the suffering he has inflicted on people both domestically and abroad.

I believe in the ideals upon which this country was founded, and consider myself to be genuinely though quietly patriotic. And since free speech is supposedly guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution, I would like to say that I believe Muntadar al-Zaidi is a goddamn hero!

Sara, if you actually lived in a country with an oppressive murdering dictator, you might have a different opinion. I guess we shouldn’t bother doing anything about Darfur because as you stated, everyone knows how to live their live whether good or bad. Many people don’t have a choice how to live their lives because they have no freedom too so you might want to give that some thought to that before giving such a thoughtless ignorant opinion. Doesn’t mean we have to invade every country where that is the case but you seem to think we should just ignore it all because “its not our business.” So what if millions of people are being slaughtered, doesn’t affect you right?

As for you Emiline, you are probably one of those clueless idiots I saw at college wearing Che shirts because you thought he was a “freedom fighter” for the oppressed instead of the murderer he was that sought to oppress people by the barrel of the gun or maybe just a fan of stupid bands like Rage Against The Machine and thought it looked cool. Anyways, that is all I have to say to you pathetic America hating losers.

THANK YOU.

Why is that? Is the US president a Superior Being whose ceremonial dignity is worth more than, for instance, the wails of a little girl whose parents were killed in front of her very eyes (and the eyes of her five siblings) when U.S. troops shot up the family car at a checkpoint? Does her trauma and anguish, which will last for the rest of her life, outrage you or pain you at all? Are two shoes thrown at a US president more outrageous than what was done to this little girl, and her brothers and sisters, and her parents?

Would you like to tell this child that “war is never pretty” but she and her country “will be much the better for it”? Or better yet, would you like your daughter to be sitting covered in her parents’ blood screaming her head off with a foreigner telling her that she should be grateful to the foreigners who killed her parents because now she lives in a democracy?

I agree with your post. I don’t know how you have so many rightwing nutjobs reading your blog, but I guess that means you are doing something right to get these guys so riled up. Just remember, while they cling bitterly to their guns, religion, and pure irrationality; please remember to only cling to your intellect, and don’t let them drag you down.