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Real Reasons for the Iraq War

Comment by Larry Ross, December 5, 20004

These are very revealing quotes about the real reasons for the US war, and how the neocon administration
settled on the non-existant WMD to use as one of their justifications. After stealing the 2004 election, Bush claims a mandate to continue with more of the same. Is Iran next?

Larry Ross

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An American-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein - and the replacement of the radical Baathist dictatorship with a new government more closely aligned with the United States would put America more wholly in charge of the region than any power since the Ottomans, or maybe even the Romans.":

David Frum, speachwriter for USA president, George W Bush:

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"For bureaucratic reasons we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction,
because it was the one reason everyone could agree on.":

Paul Wolfowitz, USA Deputy Defence Secretary in an interview in the July 2003 issue of magazine Vanity Fair

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"The US and other Western governments turned a blind eye to Amnesty International reports of
widespread human rights violations in Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, and ignored
Amnesty International's campaign on behalf of the thousands of unarmed
Kurdish civilians killed in the 1988 attacks on Halabja. Once again, the human
rights record of a country is used selectively to legitimize military actions."

Amnesty International

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