The Whitehouse memo shows Bush and Blair had lots of testimony based on UN inspection that there were no WMD or a nuclear weapons in Iraq. But they decided to make war based on the lie that there were WMD in Iraq, even though that would not be a valid excuse for war in any case. Some of the other lies invented to justify the war were that Saddam had links to al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, and that Saddam was connected to the attack on 9/11, and that Saddam was a threat to the US, UK. None of this was true and Bush and Blair had no evidence for their lies.
Nevertheless both lied to their publics and governments in order to get support for their war.
Now they are planning to do it again to justify a war with Iran.

It's extremely rare, to get this kind of an insight of an extremely private, we should say secret meeting between two leaders preparing for a coming war. Tell us what you think are the main insights to be gained from the so-called White House memo?

If Professor Jorge Hirsh is right, the U.S., claiming an Iranian biological warfare threat, will attack before April 30, 2006.
This ties in with other papers warning about a U.S. - generated war on Iran starting about this time.
The decision to develop the mythology of a biological warfare threat from Iran, is because a U.S.-alleged lie that Iran is a nuclear threat had lost all credibility. It was a cunning step and more difficult to expose that the phoney nuclear threat.
People must act now to prevent this nuclear genocide against a non-nuclear state, for invented reasons.

Biological Threat and Executive Order 13292
H istory repeats itself, but always with new twists. We are back to the good old days when a Declaration of War preceded the start of a war. Such declaration occurred on March 16th, 2006. Reversing the old order, we are now in the "Sitzkrieg", to be followed shortly by an aerial "Blitzkrieg" in the coming days.

The world has gotten itself into a real jam. I mean a humdinger of a jam! As in John Paul Sartre's existential drama, No Exit, which so nicely portrays the inescapability of self-chosen evil, the inevitability of a self-made Hell, there seems to be no way out for the world; no way for the inhabitants of planet Earth to escape what appears to be the inevitability of a hell of its own making... World War III!

How can this much evidence be ignored or dismissed

Nobel Laureates and other prominent figures petitioned the U.S. Congress not to nuclear bomb Iran "regardless of whether Iran is in any way involved in an attack on the U.S." This plan is very much like the Pentagon's "Operation Northwoods" to blame and then bomb and invade Cuba in 1962, after a faked attack on the U.S. using U.S. covert action.
Petitioners were appalled at the Bush-Pentagon plan, which was justified with their Nuclear Posture Review, Dec 2001, and Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations, March 15, 2005 to "use nuclear weapons as a tool in warfare like any other".

In an August 2005 issue of The American Conservative, former CIA officer Philip Girarldi raised the alarm over in-process Pentagon contingency plans drafted in preparation for another terrorist attack in the United States. The response includes a plan for a massive air assault on Iran with the use of both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons regardless of whether Iran is any way involved in such an attack against the U.S.
One month after the publication of Giraldli's warnings, physicists from around the world, including numerous Nobel laureates and prominent figures, signed a petition expressing their dismay at seeing the architects of Bush administration policy embrace the use of nuclear weapons as a tool in warfare like any other. The new US policy to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear countries has been officially formulated in two US government documents Nuclear Posture Review delivered to Congress in December 2001 and Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations dated March 15, 2005.

.....We seem to never learn from our past mistakes. Today’s neo-cons are... idealistically misled and aggressive in remaking the Middle East..... Even given the horrendous costs of the Iraq War and the unintended consequences that plague us today, the neo-cons are eager to expand their regime-change policy to Iran by force.
The obvious shortcomings of our regime change and occupation of Afghanistan are now readily apparent. The Taliban was ousted from power, but they have regrouped and threaten the delicate stability that now exists in that country. Opium drug production is once again a major operation, with drugs lords controlling a huge area of the country outside Kabul.

There has never been a Shiite/Sunni conflict in Iraq before the U.S. invasion in 2003. If there was one thing that united Iraqis since it is desire for the U.S. invaders to leave Iraq. Nothing is more likely to prevent that and give the U.S. a justification "to stay and help our friends" than a civil war. I don't think it is Sunnis and Shiites promoting a civil war. With it's new hardened permanent military bases in Iraq, it is clear that the US intends to stay, and are looking for a justification.

As coffins of shooting victims rolled past wailing mourners, Iraq's dominant Shiite Muslim political alliance Monday condemned the United States for a weekend raid that left at least 16 people dead in a Shiite neighborhood and said it was for now dropping out of U.S.-guided talks aimed at forming a unity government.
Shiite political leaders and U.S. military commanders gave wildly contradictory accounts of the Sunday evening raid in northeast Baghdad, evidence of a growing rift between the United States and the Shiite-led government that came to power after the 2003 ouster of Saddam Hussein.

The following secret memo of Bush/Blair meetings in January 2003, published in shows Bush determined to invade Iraq, even if they failed to get a second UN resolution and UN inspectors did not find any WMD.
Bush discussed with Blair "various ways to provoke a confrontation" with Iraq to justify invasion such as:
" flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in U.N. colours...If Saddam fired on them, he would be in breach" and that would give the U.S. a pretext to attack.

But behind closed doors, the president was certain that war was inevitable. During a private two-hour meeting in the Oval Office on Jan. 31, 2003, he made clear to Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain that he was determined to invade Iraq without the second resolution, or even if international arms inspectors failed to find unconventional weapons, said a confidential memo about the meeting written by Mr. Blair's top foreign policy adviser and reviewed by The New York Times.

In the following article Ralph Nader gives an excellent analysis of why the Bush-cons Administration should be impeached. I hope the Americans are able to do this- and that the U.S. will withdraw from Iraq - and that there will be no war with Iran. However the future could be very different.For some time the Bush-cons have been planning a war with Iran, perhaps nuclear. They're unlikely to stop now and admit failure in Iraq. That would be unacceptable, and in any case they don't appear to be any serious challengers. I think they will try to continue their horrendous dream of an American empire. As a trigger Bush desperately needs another 9/11 "Pearl Harbour" which he can blame on Iran, then use as a justification for attack. As 9 states have nuclear weapons and the IAEA reports Iran has none, even Bush might find it hard to justify an attack on Iran because it might get nuclear weapons some day.

Attention please, good people! Adjust your routines and come to the aid of your country, and your children with your thoughtful patriotism. Don't just hope for impeachment, demand the resignation now of the mad hatters in the White House--George W. Bush and Richard Cheney.

"War Made Easy:How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us To Death" is the title of a new book that shows how the 4th Estate has evolved to become the major propagandist propelling Americans to war. The details of Bush's many lies are thoroughly dissected. For information, go to: www.WarMadeEasy.com
The following article by the author is a small taste.

Norman Solomon is the author of the new book War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death. More than any other New York Times reporter, Judith Miller took the lead with stories claiming that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
Now, a few years later, she's facing heightened scrutiny in the aftermath of a pair of articles that appeared in the Times on Sunday—a lengthy investigative piece about Miller plus her first-person account of how she got entangled in the case of the Bush administration's "outing' of Valerie Plame as a CIA agent.

Prof. Klare shows how Bush has gone against 35 years of US policy supporting the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, by selling India nuclear technology. This is allegedly only to help India's nuclear energy program. But it will allow India to double it's production of nuclear weapons. That effectively scraps a cornerstone of US policy - the NPT.

....For thirty-five years nuclear nonproliferation was a major priority of U.S. foreign policy. But now, in a throwback to early cold war power politics, President Bush has agreed to supply nuclear technology to India in blatant violation of the NPT.

On March 17 William Rivers Pitt wrote that Bush is "deranged, disconnected, and dangerous." In his March 20 Cleveland speech, Bush proved Pitt right.
Bush gave a delusional speech that shows he is detached from reality. "We’re going to help the Iraqis build a strong democracy that will be an inspiration throughout the Middle East, a democracy that’ll be a partner in the global war against the terrorists."
Has no one told Bush that the Iraqis cannot even agree to form a government?
The day before Bush’s delusional Cleveland speech, Iyad Allawi, the former prime minister of one of our make-believe Iraqi governments, said that in Iraq the casualty rate from the sectarian strife is so high that "if this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is."

Impeachment is the only recourse that can bring a halt to the madness in Iraq, and the insanity being planned in Iran and elsewhere.
As America reaches the third anniversary of President Bush's decision to invade and occupy Iraq, there is for the first time the unsettling realization brought about by the clarity of acts that emerges only after the passage of time that something horrible has happened.
This awakening of collective awareness on the part of the American people is reflected not only in the numerous polls which show ......read on

The new 49 page Security blueprint sounds like a formula to initiate pre-emptive war whenever and on whoever the U.S. decides - and Iran is next on their list.
The U.S. even tells Russia and China they must increase whatever the U.S. says is "freedom" and warns that the U.S. is "hedging" if they don't meet U.S. specifications.
This formula for endless war, and possibly nuclear war soon for Iran, could become a quick ending of the human race.

Making no apologies for the war in Iraq, the United States reaffirmed its strike-first policy of pre-emption and warned that Iran may pose the biggest threat to US national security.
"We may face no greater challenge from a single country than from Iran," the White House said in a 49-page blueprint called "The National Security Strategy of the United States of America."
The report drew up a balance sheet of what it called US President George W. Bush's foreign policy successes and remaining "challenges" like bloody violence in Iraq and tense standoffs over nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea.

American forces have dramatically increased airstrikes in Iraq during the past five months, a change of tactics that may foreshadow how the United States plans to battle a still-strong insurgency while reducing the number of U.S. ground troops serving here.

New Pentagon Doctrine: Mini-Nukes are "Safe for the Surrounding Civilian Population"

Will the US launch "Mini-nukes" against Iran in Retaliation for Tehran's "Non-compliance"?

The latest information I have had from the followers of Bush is that he has demanded and received permission to use nuclear “bunker busters” in Iran in a preemptive strike. As a nuclear veteran (Operation Redwing, Bikini, 1956) I can affirm that this is absolute madness. The “bunker buster” is a cute sounding name for a nuclear horror. Air bursts are horrible enough, doing incredible destruction through heat, shock and high initial radiation. The fallout from an air burst is registered around the world. A surface or subsurface burst is even deadlier and more long lasting.

There is a huge body of evidence, including photos, testimony and eye-witness accounts, that U.S. policy is to torture those they detain and imprison around the world.
Of particular interest are the words used by Bush, Cheney and others to deny the charge of torture.
Never, in the history of the United States, has an administration told such colossal lies, with such a straight face, to deny and continue, such horrendous crimes. They are very skilful actors.

The other day on Jerry Agar's radio show, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld responded to accusations about American atrocities at our prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He accused the detainees there of manipulating public opinion by lying about their treatment. He said, in part:
"They're taught to lie, they're taught to allege that they have been tortured, and that's part of the [terrorist] training that they received. We know that torture is not occurring there. We know that for a fact… The reality is that the terrorists have media committees. They are getting very clever at manipulating the media in the United States and in the capitals of the world. They know for a fact they can't win a single battle on the battlefields in the Middle East. They know the only place they can win a battle is in the capitol in Washington, D.C. by having the United States lose its will, so they consciously manipulate the media here to achieve their ends, and they're very good at it."

There are dire consequences to the current direction of the U.S. foreign policy, said Noam Chomsky in a speech Saturday at Binghamton University. Among those consequences, he said, is a nuclear Armageddon.
"Under the current U.S. policies, a nuclear exchange is inevitable," the 77-year-old MIT professor said in his presentation, "Imminent Crises: Paths Toward Solutions." He spoke to an over-capacity crowd in BU's Osterhout Concert Theater.
Chomsky cited nuclear proliferation and environmental collapse as the two greatest crises that "literally threaten survival."

Here is yet more evidence that Bush stole the 2000 and 2004 elections, knew about and was involved in the 9/11 attack that was used as an excuse to justify his illegal Iraq war. He now presides over a growing criminal empire of deception and lies that gets stronger every day. The results of his escalating crimes will be felt years into the future, unless his wars trigger off a holocaust that destroys us all first.
The media has covered up for him, and his crimes, at every turn and does everything it can to divert public attention from the truth about 9/11 and the Iraq war. The Democrats have been too beholden to the military/industrial complex to challenge Bush lies and illegal actions. Most people who participated in these crimes against their fellow Americans are too afraid to talk, deeply and profitably involved themselves, or psychopaths and neocons who believe in what they are doing.

Reports that Iran and Russia have reached an agreement on a plan for the joint enrichment of Iran's uranium in Russia have eased fears of a major international confrontation over Iran's nuclear plans. But this danger has by no means been eliminated. Without a permanent resolution of the dispute agreeable to both the United States and Iran, the prospect of an armed clash will grow increasingly severe. Such a clash might not entail full-scale war, but it could trigger an uncontrollable explosion of sectarian and religious strife throughout the Middle East. Preventing such a clash is among the most pressing tasks facing the international community today.

"Construction Minister Jassem Mohammed Jaafar said, "Holes were dug into the mausoleum’s four main pillars and packed with explosives. Then charges were connected together and linked to another charge placed just under the dome. The wires were then linked to a detonator which was triggered at a distance."
Clearly, the bombing was not carried out by rogue elements in the disparate Iraqi resistance. This is the work of highly-trained saboteurs and bomb-experts who were executing a precision-demolition to incite sectarian violence. The blast bears all the hallmarks of a covert Intelligence agency-operation."
The Smoking Gun February 26, 2006

The deaths of detainees in U.S. custody have been shrouded in secrecy for years. To shine a light on the U.S. government’s handling of the nearly 100 detainee deaths since 2002, Human Rights First has been independently researching these cases.
Just last week we released an eye-opening report, titled Command’s Responsibility; Detainee Deaths in U.S. Custody in Iraq and Afghanistan, which was featured by the BBC and covered widely in the press, including The New York Times, The Associated Press, Reuters, and The Financial Times. What we found: deeply flawed investigations, command failure, and an alarming lack of accountability.       continue...

The U.S. has used depleted uranium (D.U.) weapons in 4 wars (see below).
Britain and other members of U.S. military alliances have been complicit in D.U. usage and aware of the low-level radiation effects.
D.U. microscopic particles have been spread by air currents to Europe and Britain. It has a half life of 4,500,000,000 years, so can continue to spread over coming decades and centuries.. It can infect people with a number of fatal diseases as the following articles show, slowly killing or incapacitating many of them. It lasts forever and there is no cure.
Using such weapons is an attack on all humanity and all nations, as the particles will drift around the world forever.
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Ever since the attacks of September 11, 2001, there was enough evidence available for me to conclude that the Bush administration knew we would be attacked with airplanes in some way but they purposely did nothing to prevent the attacks in order to justify their political goals.
For example, aside from the multiple warnings the Bush administration received – as confirmed by Richard Clark, Condoleezza Rice, and Donald Rumsfeld – they were also aware that the Pentagon and FEMA had conducted exercises that involved jetliners used as missiles. There is a mountain of evidence that the president and his cabinet, as well as the intelligence community, knew that this scenario was possible.

On this very conservative campus (in the most conservative county in the most conservative state in the union), where community leaders pulled out all the stops in 2004 to prevent Michael Moore from speaking as part of his anti-Bush, pro-Kerry “Slacker Uprising Tour,” Dr. Steven Jones, this pious professor from the Mormon Church-owned Brigham Young University, calmly, gently, gave a simple physics lesson on the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings, the implications of which awed the audience with a sense of world-historical significance, and implied an indictment of the present administration so utterly devastating that it made Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 look like a Bush apologia.

This is the best and most comprehensive resource I have yet found on the 9/11 attack in 2001. From my own continuing research I think the scholars are right: that the U.S. is in the hands of a criminal conspiracy who are bent on global domination. It's such and awful big pill to swallow, that many will reject this conclusion as untenable, impossible and that those who think this way must be nuts. I don't blame them for thinking this way.
However disbelieving a person may be of this conclusion, I urge them to read some of the material on this Scholars website.
Really, I think all our lives depend on stopping the Bush Conspiracy before it takes us all past the point of no return - such as the often predicted major US 'next step' - Bush's military assault on Iran.

Guantanamo, with it’s illegal imprisonment of innocent people, torture, forced feeding, shaming, lack of trials, should be closed. For New Zealand’s own good, for Americans, and for people everywhere who believe in freedom, democracy and human rights, we should stand up to the Bush Administration, and officially protest it’s criminal policies.
It is not anti-American to bear witness to how the Bush Administration is violating the U.S. Constitution and International Law.

The issue of human rights abuses at Guantanamo Bay is still very much a live one following the release of the UN Human Rights Commission Report into the detention centre highlighting widespread torture practices. Yesterday Keith asked Foreign Minister Winston Peters during Question Time whether New Zealand would step up to the plate and call for the closure of the detention centre following the release of the report.
It is interesting that the Foreign Affairs Minister is reticent about standing up to the United States on this issue, given his recent comments about their recognition of our role in the Pacific!     Full story and feed back

Guantanamo, with it’s illegal imprisonment of innocent people, torture, forced feeding, shaming, lack of trials, should be closed. For New Zealand’s own good, for Americans, and for people everywhere who believe in freedom, democracy and human rights, we should stand up to the Bush Administration, and officially protest it’s criminal policies.
It is not anti-American to bear witness to how the Bush Administration is violating the U.S. Constitution and International Law.

The issue of human rights abuses at Guantanamo Bay is still very much a live one following the release of the UN Human Rights Commission Report into the detention centre highlighting widespread torture practices. Yesterday Keith asked Foreign Minister Winston Peters during Question Time whether New Zealand would step up to the plate and call for the closure of the detention centre following the release of the report.
It is interesting that the Foreign Affairs Minister is reticent about standing up to the United States on this issue, given his recent comments about their recognition of our role in the Pacific!     Full story and feed back

I have often warned about the possible Bush Administration use of a fake attack on the U.S. to justify an attack on Iran - as the 9/1l attack in 2001 , was used to justify the Iraq war. But Iraq had no links to al-Qaeda, nothing to do with terrorism, the 9/11 attack, or bin-Laden and had no weapons of mass destruction, and no nuclear weapons program. However the very erroneous and false justifications for the Iraq war were exposed repeatedly but not by the mass media. Bush did not end the falsely justified war. The U.S. is continuing the war by increasing by 5 times, the air attacks on selected Iraq targets. The liars are winning.
So here is the Pentagon plan, revealed by an ex-CIA agent, to use the same type of attack to justify a war on Iran, even though Iran will have nothing to do with an alleged terrorist attack on the U.S.

In Washington it is hardly a secret that the same people in and around the administration who brought you Iraq are preparing to do the same for Iran.
The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States

Heather Wokusch gives a very good analysis in her following article of how the Bush Administration is inventing a false story about Iran making nuclear weapons to threaten the U.S. and Israel. Even though the US and Israel surround Iran with thousands of nuclear weapons that could destroy Iran in a few hours, if Iran ever attacked either nation. It seems crazy that Americans would believe such drivel, but most of them are well-conditioned by a co-operative mass media to believe whatever the Bush Administration tells them. The purpose is to create a groundswell of public opinion that will support a U.S. war on Iran.

Witnessing the Bush administration's drive for an attack on Iran is like being a passenger in a car with a raving drunk at the wheel. Reports of impending doom surfaced a year ago, but now it's official: under orders from Vice President Cheney's office, the Pentagon has developed "last resort" aerial-assault plans using long-distance B2 bombers and submarine-launched ballistic missiles with both conventional and nuclear weapons.
How ironic that the Pentagon proposes using nuclear weapons on the pretext of protecting the world from nuclear weapons. Ironic also that Iran has complied with its obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, allowing inspectors to "go anywhere and see anything," yet those pushing for an attack, the USA and Israel, have not.

"To initiate a war of aggression is, therefore, not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing from other war crimes only in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."
- Judgment of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, relating to "Count Two, the Crime of Aggression," as brought against Herman Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and 14 other defendants.
In Mr. Bush's "State 0f The Union" address, he claimed that "US forces will be drawn down as Iraqi forces stand up."
[1] However, this claim is flatly contradicted by the Pentagon's ongoing multibillion-dollar expenditures for the construction of 106 permanent bases - including six hi-tech "super-bases" - inside Iraq. [2]