I woke up to someone talking about the Ten Commandments and I couldn't make the connection between those and the idea that the Bush administration feels that it is doing God's work...
I am the Lord, thy God, thou shalt not have strange gods before me.
Oil is W's god.
Iraq has the world's second largest proven oil reserves. According to oil industry experts, new exploration will probably raise Iraq's reserves to 2-300 billion barrels of high-grade crude, extraordinarily cheap to produce, leading to a gold-rush of profits for international oil firms in the post-Saddam era.
If you have a chance, see The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror.
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain.
Like when you kill in His name...
Bush: God Told Me To Invade Iraq, Become President
Thou shalt keep the holy the Sabbath day.
Sunday, January 30, 2005 is sure to be one of the bloodiest days for Iraqis and US Troops.
Honor thy mother and thy father.
Bush's Parents:
"Why should we hear about body bags and deaths," Barbara Bush said on ABC's "Good Morning America" on March 18, 2003. "Oh, I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?"
To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day hero ... assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an un-winnable urban guerilla war. It could only plunge that part of the world into even greater instability.
George Bush Snr, in A World Transformed, 1998
Thou shalt not kill.
A solemn and daily reminder...
Iraq War Grief Daily Witness
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Thou shalt not steal.
Taking away the right to vote...
Georgia10's Ohio Update
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
Senator Barbara Boxer holds Rice accountable for lying:
Well, with you in the lead role, Dr. Rice, we went into Iraq. I want to read you a paragraph that best expresses my views, and ask my staff if they would hold this up -- and I believe the views of millions of Californians and Americans. It was written by one of the world's experts on terrorism, Peter Bergen, five months ago. He wrote: "What we have done in Iraq is what bin Laden could not have hoped for in his wildest dreams: We invaded an oil-rich Muslim nation in the heart of the Middle East, the very type of imperial adventure bin Laden has long predicted was the U.S.'s long-term goal in the region. We deposed the secular socialist Saddam, whom bin Laden has long despised, ignited Sunni and Shi'a fundamentalist fervor in Iraq, and have now provoked a defensive jihad that has galvanized jihad- minded Muslims around the world. It's hard to imagine a set of policies better designed to sabotage the war on terror." This conclusion was reiterated last Thursday by the National Intelligence Council, the CIA director's think tank, which released a report saying that Iraq has replaced Afghanistan as the training ground for the next generation of professionalized terrorists.
That's your own administration's CIA. NIC chairman Robert Hutchings said Iraq is, quote, "a magnet for international terrorist activity."
And this was not the case in '01. And I have great proof of it, including a State Department document that lists every country -- could you hold that up? -- in which al Qaeda operated prior to 9/11. And you can see the countries; no mention of Iraq. And this booklet was signed off on by the president of the United States, George W. Bush. It was put out by George Bush's State Department, and he signed it. There was no al Qaeda activity there -- no cells. - Senator Barbara Boxer
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's goods.
Naomi Kline calls it as she sees it...
Baghdad Year Zero
But Bremer didn't give up. International law prohibits occupiers from selling state assets themselves, but it doesn't say anything about the puppet governments they appoint. Originally, Bremer had pledged to hand over power to a directly elected Iraqi government, but in early November he went to Washington for a private meeting with President Bush and came back with a Plan B. On June 30 the occupation would officially end--but not really. It would be replaced by an appointed government, chosen by Washington. This government would not be bound by the international laws preventing occupiers from selling off state assets, but it would be bound by an "interim constitution," a document that would protect Bremer's investment and privatization laws.
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