Charts: Bush Lowballed Us on Iraq by $6 Trillion

[Ichingcarpenter]

Charts: Bush Lowballed Us on Iraq by $6 Trillion
—By Tasneem Raja| Tue Mar. 19, 2013 3:00 AM PDT
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Ten years later, the Bush administration's projected price tag for the war in Iraq seems downright cute. According to the first-ever comprehensive count of the true toll of the combined wars, the estimate the administration used to sell the invasion in 2003 was about 100 times too low.










http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/03/charts-cost-iraq-war

[Mnemosyne]

1. Lying liars... K&R nt

[malaise]

2. Bush should be painting his puppies from a cell at The Hague

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. Unfortunately we bowed out under clinton

To the International Criminal court the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court was adopted by a UN vote of 120 to 7, with 21 countries abstaining. The seven countries that voted against the treaty were China, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Qatar, United States, and Yemen

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4. Amazing indeed

Great company

[Octafish]

5. Well, money trumps peace.

Commercial interests are very powerful interests.

Which we know.

So. Why aren't these traitors, warmongers and banksters in jail?

No reason they shouldn't be.

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. 2003:J.P. Morgan Chase to Run Iraq's Trade Banks

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. has been selected to operate a bank the U.S. is creating in Iraq to manage billions of dollars to finance imports and exports.

J.P. Morgan, the second-largest U.S. bank by assets, will lead a group that includes 13 banks representing 13 countries to run the bank for three years, said Peter McPherson, the top U.S. economic adviser in Iraq.

``Iraq will become important to these banks,'' McPherson told reporters in Washington in a conference call from Baghdad. ``These banks were making a view on the future of Iraq.''

Operating the Trade Bank of Iraq will give banks access to the financial system of Iraq, the world's second-largest holder of oil reserves, where foreign bank companies haven't operated since a policy of nationalization in the 1950s and 1960s. The announcement came on the same day as a car bomb killed a top Iraqi cleric and at least 82 others, underscoring the danger of having a presence in the country in the wake of the war.


http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aEKCAEHxVEBI

As you can see from the date of the article this was in the works well before the invasion. Saddam's threat to use the euro would have disrupted the international banking system.

Then Wolfowitz was assigned to The World Bank.

You can't have wars without bankers.... Hitler knew that.

[Octafish]

7. 9/11 and US-Led Neo-Fascism

Last edited Tue Mar 19, 2013, 12:51 PM - Edit history (1)

by Ed Rippy

www.globalresearch.ca
17 August 2003

The "War on Terrorism" and legislation such as the "PATRIOT" Act are the latest phase of a plan for US-led global neo-fascism which has been in the works for decades at least. Powerful elements in the US government wanted to take over Afghanistan and the surrounding area, with its oil, natural gas, minerals, and opium, to further worldwide US military and economic dominance. The terrorist attacks on 9/11/01 are reminiscent of previous "arranged" attacks including the Boston Massacre, Pearl Harbor, and the Gulf of Tonkin "incident."

Of course, this is not the "classic" fascism of the 1930s; history never repeats itself exactly. There is no need for the Brown Shirts and the Black Shirts of the ‘30s, since there is no longer any strong Communist movement to defeat. Overt racism is out these days; "Islamic fundamentalists" (patiently built up by the US and allies) fill the bill now. But the essential elements (as identified by Prof. Bertram Gross1) of big business-big government cooperation, authoritarianism, and militarism are still there.

Powerful elements in US business, political, and military circles have wanted a global fascist order for a long time. (For example, in the mid-1930s, vice-president of General Motors Graeme K. Howard wrote a book titled America and a New World Order.) IBM, ITT, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Ford, General Motors, The Chase Bank, the National City Bank of New York (now Citibank/Citigroup), and other US businesses and banks funded Hitler before and during World War II.2 (Prescott Bush, G. W. Bush’s grandfather, funneled money to the Nazis from New York.3) They also supplied trucks, oil, aircraft engines, communications equipment, transportation, and propaganda to the fascist powers.

Allen Dulles and John Foster Dulles, who later became head of the CIA and Secretary of State respectively, were heavily involved in this collaboration. Some of these fascists actually plotted a military coup against President Roosevelt, but it was discovered.

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http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/RIP308A.html

We were on to their gangster asses from the get-go. Thank you for continuing to stand up to the traitors, Ichingcarpenter!

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. The first Gulf War was about money, oil, banking

Yes, Saddam fucked up going into Kuwait, was prick, mass murderer, war criminal..etc


But Banking made a killing off of it.

I've been looking back into that war too for historical perspective as involved in the banking aspect.

The Banking aspect of this equation is well worth looking into which has been overlooked until the collapse in 2007.

Occupy your mind
Occupy your rights
Occupy your history.

I banked at Savings and Loans from when I first started having a job at 14
until they were closed down
because of the Bush Crime Family.

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9. Double Barreled Blasts from the Past

Know your BFEE: Poppy Bush Armed Saddam



Oh. Well. I mean: Oil Well. Er. Oil War. Speaking of power...

Know your BFEE: They Looted Your Nation s S&Ls for Power and Profit

The S&L Scam was a Dry Run for the Great Bank Bust-Out of 2008.

[WinkyDink]

12. Poppy's Daddy Prescott bankrolled HITLER, FGS. Apple, tree, rotten to the core.

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10. I think Bushco should cough up some of their personal money to help pay for this.

They lied; now they can pony up.

[WinkyDink]

11. The masculine "Mission Accomplished" lost its "T"?