Ayoon Wa Azan (I Accuse The Bush Administration Of Terrorism)

Jihad el-Khazen, Al-Hayat

All US officials that have visited Iraq asked the Iraqi government to pass the oil act, from extremist Vice-President Dick Cheney to the moderate Robert Gates. On the other hand, all Iraqi officials that have visited the US, from President Jalal Talabani and downward, listened to the same demand. President George Bush and the Democratic-controlled Congress disagreed over everything except the Iraqi oil when they considered passing the oil act a sign of progress in Iraq. I heard the Americans had gone to Iraq to spread democracy there and then export it to the neighbors. But the project of democracy was quickly forgotten and the original objective, i.e. Iraq's oil, remained. The US greed has reached an extent to wage a war where one million Iraqis are killed to satisfy the US consumers' lust for oil..

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