The Iraq War: Illegal Immoral Unjust/ A Psychopath's War
Within hours of the attacks of September 11th, 2001, on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the Bush administration was blaming Osama bin Laden and his alleged Al-Qaeda network, and declaring a so-called war on terrorism.
At that time no suggestion was made that Iraq was in any way connected with the September 11th attacks.The propaganda campaign to make people believe that Saddam Hussein was behind the September 11th attacks was so successful that in mid-2003 the believers had grown to 70%. But in September 2003 George W. Bush admitted that there was no evidence linking Saddam to 9/11. Bush was said that Iraq had "weapons of mass destruction".
But after the regime of Saddam Hussein was overthrown, and US forces were able to inspect any place in Iraq they wished to, where were these "weapons of mass destruction"? None were found. That's because there weren't any.
The main reasons for the US invasion of Iraq were to gain control of Iraq's oilfields, to establish military bases in Iraq from which to dominate the Middle East and eventually to establish control over all countries dependent on oil.
Of course there were also other reasons. Iraq had begun to accept payment in euros for its oil, opening the way for all major oil producers to do this. Were this to happen then the euro would probably become the world's reserve currency, not the dollar. This would have a major negative impact on the US economy (would, in fact, cause the collapse of the US economy) .
A minor reason was that Bush, obviously a psychopath ( or as some would prefer to describe him, a sociopath ), delighted in ordering up a war sure to result in the deaths of thousands of people .
And war is always good for those companies which manufacture weapons. For such companies the death and destruction which results is of no concern.
