Originally published January 30 2004
President Bush uses Weapons of Mass Distraction to obscure the true
purpose of the war on Iraq
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
As the Bush administration continues fishing for reasons to justify the
war on Iraq, independent organizations like Human Rights Watch (HRW) are
challenging the latest versions of the story of why we invaded Iraq in
the first place. If you recall, the original justification for
invading Iraq was the countries supposed inventory of weapons of mass
destruction. When these weapons were never found, and as chief weapons
inspectors denounced the entire effort and stated publicly that they
believed the weapons never existed, the Bush administration turned to
plan B: human rights, not weapons of mass destruction.
But Human
Rights Watch challenges this latest story, saying that the human rights
violations of 1988 did not justify an invasion in 2002.
The true
story here is that the Bush administration is using weapons of mass
distraction to make people believe the invasion of Iraq is
about something other than control of natural resources: namely, oil.
Do you honestly believe that the United States would have invaded and
taken over Iraq if the country were the world's largest producer of
avocados and had no oil?
By Matthew Clark| csmonitor.com As the months roll by without any
discovery of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, the Bush
administration has increasingly emphasized Saddam Hussein's brutality
and human rights violations as an important justification for the
preemptive war it launched to overthrow his regime.
After former chief US weapons inspector David Kay announced over the
weekend that Iraq did not possess any WMD stockpiles before the war, the
White House has backed off the claim that had been its main
justification for the war.
But a leading advocacy group, Human Rights Watch (HRW), released a
report Monday challenging the administration's other main justification.
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