Why We Were In Iraq

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By David Horowitz
March 21, 2013

On this ten year Iraq War anniversary, Frontpage editors have decided to repost David Horowitz’s article, Why We Are In Iraq, from our November 26, 2004 issue. The article is also a pamphlet available from the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

Just before American and British troops entered Iraq to remove the regime of Saddam Hussein, a videotape of Osama bin Laden was aired on Al-Jazeera TV. The tape was aired on February 12, 2003, and in it bin Laden said: “The interests of Muslims and the interests of the socialists coincide in the war against the crusaders.”

Bin Laden was referring to the fact that four weeks earlier, millions of leftists had poured into the streets of European capitals and of Washington, San Francisco and New York to protest the removal of Saddam Hussein. Their goal was to prevent the United States and Britain from toppling Saddam and ending one of the cruelest and most repressive regimes in modern times. The protesters chanted “no blood for oil;” they called the United States “the world’s greatest terrorist state;” they called America’s democratic government an “Axis of Evil;” and they compared America’s president to Adolph Hitler.

In America, the demonstrations against the war were organized by two different groups. One of these was International ANSWER, a front group for the Worker’s World Party, which is a Marxist-Leninist sect aligned with the Communist dictatorship in North Korea. The other was the Coalition for Peace and Justice, an organization which was led by Leslie Cagan, a veteran 1960’s leftist and member of the Communist Party until after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Coalition welcomed all factions of the left and was composed of organizations that ranged from the Communist Party to the National Council of Churches to Muslim supporters of the terrorist jihad.


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More car bombings in Iraq...

Iraq violence: Baghdad car bombs kill more than 57
27 May 2013 - At least 57 people have been killed in a series of car bombs targeting mainly Shia areas in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, police say.

Many more were wounded as at least a dozen bombs hit busy shopping areas and markets in the city. The violence comes amid a recent marked rise in attacks linked to growing political and sectarian tension. It has raised fears of a return to the levels of sectarian violence seen in 2006 and 2007, in which thousands died.

Busy areas

One bombing struck the busy commercial Sadoun Street in central Baghdad. One bystander who saw that attack, Zein al-Abidin, said a four-year-old child was among the victims. "What crime have those innocent people committed?" he asked. Other neighbourhoods which were targeted include al-Maalif, where six died, and Habibiya, where 12 were killed, according to the Associated Press news agency.

Firefighters were called to extinguish the blaze from a car bomb attack in Baghdad

No group has said it carried out the attacks, but tension between the Shia Muslim majority, which leads the government, and minority Sunnis has been growing since last year. Sunnis have accused the government of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki of discriminating against them - something the government denies. Mr Maliki has vowed to make immediate changes to Iraq's security strategy, saying militants "will not be able to return us to the sectarian conflict".

Monday's bombings come a week after more than 70 people were killed and many others injured in a series of attacks across the country, in what was described as one of the worst days for sectarian violence in Iraq for several years. Baghdad was worst hit, with several explosions at bus stations and markets in mainly Shia Muslim districts. Estimates put the number of deaths this month at more than 450 - the second consecutive month during which more than 400 people have been killed.

BBC News - Iraq violence: Baghdad car bombs kill more than 57

 

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[Old Rocks]

We went into Iraq on the basis of lies concerning WMD's and a nuclear program that did not exist. The UN Inspectors were finding nothing, so Bush told them to get out, he was going in, anyway. So we went in on the basis of those lies, unneccessarily spent the lives of 4500 of our sons and daughters, and 3 trillion dollars. And in the meantime, let the murderer of 3000 Americans on American soil go for seven years. Only after a Democratic President was elected was that Democratic President's campaign pledge when Bin Laden was killed.

History will state that there was never any justification whatever for going into Iraq, just Cheney's and the PNAC dream of an American Empire.

 

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Kuwait has the oil, Iraq not so much.

 

[Truthseeker420]

Kuwait has the oil, Iraq not so much.

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[Politico]

We're still in Iraq.