He [Brown] sat in the sofa-cabinet with his predecessor as genocidal wars in Afghanistan and then on Iraq were unleashed. Like Blair and the others in that Downing Street lounge, he is a psychopath too. Not one of his successive pretexts for laying upon Iraq like wolves could justify the killing that would maim even one family. David Halpin, Alternative View II conference 31st May 2009 lecture, ‘The Vortex Sucks Ever Louder’
Well in excess of 100,000 people’s lives and hundreds of thousands more have been maimed and wounded. And it was all for a pack of lies. There were no weapons of mass destruction. There was no link between Iraq and al Qaeda. There was no link between Iraq and the atrocities of 11th September. George Galloway, Galloway v Hitchens, Baruch College New York September 2005
There is scarcely a sentient being in the land who any longer believes that the war on Iraq was either necessary or just or a good idea. ibid.
Our two countries [US & UK] are the biggest rogue states in the world today. ibid.
Western policy has created this swamp of hatred against us. ibid.
Baghdad, September 2001: A few days after 9/11 Iraq’s intelligence service received a secret message from a trusted emissary: ‘America wants Iraq to commit to the War on Terror against Al-Qaeda’. The Iraq War I: Regime Change, BBC 2013
America went to war against Iraq based on a lie. We were told in 2002 that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction – the previous administration even pursued torture to try to extract false confessions to try to justify the war. It’s time to tell the truth. The truth is we should not have prosecuted a war against the Iraqi people. The truth is the Democratic Senate could have stopped the Iraq War in 2002 ... Get out of Iraq! Get out of Afghanistan! Come home, America! Come home! Dennis Kucinich, address to Congress 14th May 2009
Every time they [the Royal Marines] got a location for a supposed al Qaeda or Taliban element or base they’d turn up and there was no-one there or there’d be a few startled shepherds. And that struck me then as being a wonderful image for the War on Terror because people are looking for something that isn’t there. There is no organisation with its terrorist operative sleeper cells. What there is is an idea. Jason Burke, author Al Qaeda
A CNN/Gallup poll conducted in March 2003 found that 51% of the American people thought Saddam Hussein was personally responsible for the September 11th attack. Robert Kane Pappas, Orwell Rolls in His Grave 2003, Danny Schechter
The hypothesis that has gained strength which was said on television last night and which could soon blow up is that it was the same US imperial power that planned and carried out this terrible terrorist attack or act against its own people and against citizens from all over the world. Why? To justify the aggression that was immediately unleashed on Afghanistan, on Iraq and the threats against all of us and against Venezuela too. Hugo Chavez 2006
This war on terrorism is bogus: the 9/11 attacks gave the US an ideal pretext to use force to secure its global domination. Michael Meacher MP, article Guardian online 6th September 2003
The War on Terror ... would eventually lead to the destruction of civil liberties and the establishment of the military driven to conflicts based upon political lies and fraudulent official reports. Lewis & vonKleist, 9/11 Ripple Effect
9/11 was an inside job orchestrated by forces in our own government. It was a false-flag attack with evidence planted to make it appear to have been planned and carried out by Arab Muslims. David Ray Griffin, interview Guns and Butter 7th January 2009
There are reasons why the Bush-Cheney administration and its Pentagon would have staged the 9/11 attacks to make them appear to have been orchestrated by Muslim terrorists from the Middle East. This administration wanted to control this oil from the Caspian Sea area, had made plans to go to war in Afghanistan months before 9/11. It also, as is now well known, had an attack on Iraq at the top of the agenda when it came to office. Finally, General Wesley Clark has revealed the Pentagon under this administration was planning on attacking six more predominantly Muslims countries: Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran. Accordingly, the idea that 9/11 was an inside job with evidence planted to make it appear to be the work of Middle Eastern Muslims should not be ruled out a priori. Indeed, those with responsibility to discover what really happened including our major media should have been alert to evidence that it was a false-flag attack. ibid.
We can see through the claim that the US Project of creating the first truly global empire is a benevolent or even benign enterprise. However, we can fully grasp the extent to which this project is propelled by fanaticism based on a deeply perverted value system only when we realise that the terrorist attacks of 9/11 were orchestrated by our own leaders, and that they did this to provide the justification, the fear and the funding for the so-called War on Terror which would be used as the pretext for enlarging the empire. David Ray Griffin, 9/11 Fraud
We also know that the intention to invade Iraq existed long before 9/11 and that this intention was based on imperial design, not concerned with Saddam’s wickedness. ibid.
This is the value system that is diametrically opposed to the value systems on which all the great religious and moral traditions of the world have been based. These traditional value systems say that we should not covet, steal and murder. That we should make sure that everyone has the necessary means for a decent life. But our government’s project for global domination is carried out in the name of the haves of the world who want still more. Even if it means killing hundreds and thousands of people and letting millions more die every year because of starvation and other poverty related diseases, we can see furthermore that some political and military leaders are so fanatically infected with these perverted values that they are willing to kill thousands of their own citizens, then endlessly use a deceptive account of these terrorist attacks to justify a War on Terror, in the name of which they claim the right to do virtually anything they wish, ignoring all principles of international law and morality. ibid.
Think how it’s been misused. This is the pretext for this unending nebulous War on Terror where this is no defined enemy. Annie Machon, interview 30th April 2010
Tracking down the engineer of the attacks of September 11th – in a deadly game of cat and mouse – the CIA will follow a chain of intelligence from the Philippines to the heart of Pakistan and attempt to capture Al Qaeda’s mastermind – the man known as KSM Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The 9/11 Mastermind
The CIA has traced Mohammed’s location to a house in northern Pakistan. ibid.
A new military role for the CIA. ibid.
The new military-industrial complex is fuelled by a conveniently ambiguous and unseen enemy: the terrorist. Former President George W Bush and his aides insisted on calling counter-terrorism efforts a war. This concerted effort by leaders like former Vice President Dick Cheney (himself the former CEO of defense-contractor Halliburton) was not some empty rhetorical exercise. Not only would a war maximise the inherent powers of the president, but it would maximise the budgets for military and homeland agencies.
This new coalition of companies, agencies, and lobbyists dwarfs the system known by Eisenhower when he warned Americans to ‘guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence … by the military-industrial complex’. Ironically, it has had some of its best days under President Barack Obama who has radically expanded drone attacks and claimed that he alone determines what a war is for the purposes of consulting Congress. Jonathan Turley, ‘Big Money Behind War: The Military Industrial Complex’
The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitation services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us. John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Is it a coincidence that American military positioning happens to take place in central Asia, the Persian Gulf and other oil-rich regions of the world? Is fighting terrorism the real motive? Or is Washington more interested in grabbing whatever oil reserves are left, fuelling terrorism and war as a result? But massive deployment requires massive manpower. The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror, 2005
The dirty little secret is that both Houses of Congress are irrelevant. America’s domestic policy is now being run by Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve. America’s foreign policy is now being run by the International Monetary Fund. When the President decides to go to war, no longer needs a declaration of war from Congress. Robert Reich, USA Today 7th January 1999
Washington – A massive database that the government will use to monitor every purchase made by every American citizen is a necessary tool in the War on Terror, the Pentagon said yesterday. Fox News
My name-a Borat. I come from Kazakhstan. Can I say a-first, we support your war of terror! May we show our support to our boys in Iraq! May US and A kill every single terrorist! May your George Bush drink the blood of every single man, women, and child of Iraq! May you destroy their country so that for next thousand years not even a single lizard will survive in their desert! Borat: Cultural Learnings of American for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan 2006 starring Sacha Baron Cohen & Ken Davitian & Pamela Anderson & Bob Barr & Alan Keyes & Luenell et al, director Larry Charles