"Spud certainly knows which one has more to feel guilty for."
Yea, taking the presidential oath seriously is terrible.. and of course, Saddam was such a great guy..
#3 | Posted by nmg_no at 2009-09-15 07:35 AM
Paul Bremer, the US civilian administrator in Iraq had a mission - and he hates Arabs and particularly Muslim. The circumstances surrounding the block-by-block destruction of Fallujah should be obvious enough, even for Righties - the holy Christian crusade to obliterate some of the oldest Islamic communities on the planet - Blackwater style.
The only industry infrastructure left undamaged was the oil production for war profiteering:
The creation of an international weapons market and the saturation of that market with US made weaponry. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are showcases for US military hardware.
According to a recently published report from The New American Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute, profits from US arms trade reached $32 billion in 2007, surpassing the revenues reported for 2001, when Bush took over the presidency, by three folds. The US arms trade market expanded from 123 states and territories to 174. The report stated that more than half of the developing countries the US supplies with weapons are undemocratic and/or engage in flagrant human rights abuses. The top 13 countries are: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Egypt, Colombia, Jordan, Bahrain, Oman, Morocco, Yemen and Tunisia. Sales to these countries totaled over $16.2 billion in 2006 and 2007. Moreover, 20 of the 27 nations engaged in major armed conflict have been receiving weapons from the US. William D. Hartung, the lead author of the report, concluded: "The United States cannot demand respect for human rights and arm human rights abusers at the same time."
The "authority" handover was officially from viceroy Paul Bremer to the al-Maliki representative Iraqi government, the very real reason Bush was present is because people were more concerned about Bremer getting assassinated than George Bush.
"This is your farewell kiss, you dog!" he shouted at Bush in Arabic as he hurled the shoes. "This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq," he continued.
