Democrats for Christ

What really should scare you is not that the lies, untruths, half-truths, and stunning lack of any evidence of weapons of mass destruction or nuclear programs by Iraq are now coming to light. No, you see all of this was said loudly and often before the war ever came to pass. But the truth was drowned out in a press dominated by pro-Bush agenda personalities. The people who dared to point out that there was no evidence proving any link to Al-Queda; that there was no truth to the claim of Iraq purchasing materials for nuclear weapons; that there was no proof of any of it -- those people were painted as anti-American and unpatriotic. Now, it is over and they got what they wanted. The results are that Thousands of innocentt people have died. This is not to even count the thousands that will die from spent uranium from our weapons. America's and the government's credibility is questioned in all the world. We have a new doctrine of 'preemptive strikes'. We have a Patriot Act that takes away your rights. What really should scare you is WHY wasn't any of it PREVENTED? Why didn't the people in high places question the lies and demand evidence? A court of law requires it for a simple misdemeanor. But it was not required for evidence to be presented to predicate an unprovoked attack on a sovereign nation? Why NOT?

WHY DID WE GO TO WAR WITH IRAQ? WHO PROFITED?

Saudi Arabia, where most of the hijackers were from, profited in extra oil profits by $1 billion dollars per day. And the rest of this administration's oil buddies, you can read the stories and the amounts they profited from the "war" at the link provided.

-- BREAKING NEWS AND COMMENTARY--

Links to these and other stories are found on our website at:
http://legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news

U.S., U.K. Waged War on Iraq Because of Oil, Blair Adviser Says --The U.S. and U.K. went to war against Iraq because of the Middle East country's oil reserves, an adviser to British Prime Minister Tony Blair said.

Iraq war helps BP gush to record �2.3bn profit --BP announced its biggest ever profit bonanza yesterday, making $3.7bn (�2.3bn) in the first quarter of the year, or $41m a day.

BP posts best-ever quarterly profit --BP, Britain's biggest company, today reported its biggest-ever quarterly profit as the war in Iraq, strikes in Venezuela and unrest in Nigeria pushed oil prices up.

Oil price drives BP to record profits --Oil major BP revealed yesterday that it has no plans to sell any more North Sea assets, as it reported its biggest-ever quarterly profit, boosted by oil and fuel prices sent higher by the war in Iraq.

Shell 1st-Qtr Profit Rises as War Boosted Oil Price --Royal Dutch/Shell Group, Europe's largest oil company, said first-quarter net income more than doubled, capping a week of record oil-industry profit as the war in Iraq caused prices to jump.

War propels Exxon profits to record $7bn --ExxonMobil, the world's biggest privately owned oil group and a target of street protesters, celebrated May Day by reporting the largest quarterly corporate profits in history at $7.04bn (�4.4bn).

Dept. of Connections --The Contractors --by Jane Mayer "[Osama] Bin Laden�s estranged family, a sprawling, extraordinarily wealthy Saudi Arabian dynasty, is a substantial investor in a private equity firm founded by the Bechtel Group of San Francisco. Bechtel is also the global construction and engineering company to which the U.S. government recently awarded the first major multimillion-dollar contract to reconstruct war-ravaged Iraq... When the contract was awarded, two weeks ago, the Administration did not mention that the bin Laden family has an ongoing relationship with Bechtel."

NOTE: Osama bin Laden's family was also heavily invested in Carlyle Company until October of 2001. George Bush Sr. is a paid spokesman for Carlyle Company. James Baker and many other prominent Republicans are associated with Carlyle. Salem bin Laden invested in GW Bush Jr.'s company Arbusto Energy Corp. He died in a plane crash.

Carlyle Co. owns many defense industries, including United Defense Industries. Halliburton also has a defense division. These have profited greatly from increased defense spending..

Another reason-- The war caused republicans to do well in the election of 2002 because Mr. Bush and his allies painted anyone who dared to protest the propaganda, untruths, and lack of evidence supporting a war ((See 20 lies used to sell the Iraq war to the American public in the left sidebar)) as unpatriotic.