The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law. The invasion was an arbitrary military action inspired by a series of lies upon lies and gross manipulation of the media and therefore of the public; an act intended to consolidate American military and economic control of the Middle East masquerading – as a last resort – all other justifications having failed to justify themselves – as liberation. A formidable assertion of military force responsible for the death and mutilation of thousands and thousands of innocent people.

We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it 'bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East’. Harold Pinter - Nobel Lecture 07 Dec 2005

Here are some pictures of the "liberation".

Here is your reason we’re there -

The Bush administration’s covert plan to help energy companies steal Iraq’s oil could be just weeks away from fruition, and the implications are staggering: continued price-gouging by Big Oil, increased subjugation of the Iraqi people, more U.S. troops in Iraq, and a greater likelihood for a U.S. invasion of Iran.

That’s just for starters

All you bloodlusting murdering bastards that claim "it’s war, bad things happen" can kiss my ass. These bad things don’t have to happen if we weren’t making this happen. American bombs, American soliders and American politics are doing what is revealed in those pictures. And these are the nice pictures. We’re destroying Iraq so American companies can control the oil. Companies that you buy from. They planned the invasion before 9/11.

After its creation in 2001, Cheney shrouded his energy task force in secrecy and refused to turn over relevant transcripts to the Congress’s Government Accountability Office (GAO) under the bogus and utterly cynical claim that any public scrutiny of White House documents would constitute an attack on the independence of the executive branch.

The only connection 9/11 had to Iraq was it was the "Pearl Harbor" planned strike that gave the Bush Administration the green light to take their terrorism someplace else.

American multi-national corporations, along with the Bush Administration, pre-planned the attack upon Iraq, specifically to illegally steal that countries resources. They cared not for the fact that they’d have to kill hundreds of thousands of people to guarantee their claim. It was a small feat to orchestrate 9/11 and kill 3,000 Americans. That was just the beginning.

While bemoaning the administration’s incompetence in implementing the war strategy, Wilkerson said the U.S. government now had no choice but to succeed in Iraq or face the necessity of conquering the Middle East within the next 10 years to ensure access to the region’s oil supplies.

"We had a discussion in (the State Department’s Office of) Policy Planning about actually mounting an operation to take the oilfields of the Middle East, internationalize them, put them under some sort of U.N. trusteeship and administer the revenues and the oil accordingly," Wilkerson said. "That’s how serious we thought about it."

The centrality of Iraq’s oil in Wilkerson’s blunt comments contrasted with three years of assurances from the Bush administration that the war had almost nothing to do with oil.

I am sick to death of American’s vile "justifications" for war as being even remotely relevant to the ongoing genocide occuring in Iraq. The War on Terror is being morphed, once again to a War on Islam. How many times are we going to allow this sick manipulation of America to continue?

The Pentagon has decided that returning solidiers should "sell the war" -

Good soldiers follow orders and hundreds of American military men and women returned to the United States on holiday leave this month with orders to sell the Iraq war to a skeptical public. The program, coordinated through a Pentagon operation dubbed "Operation Homefront," ordered military personnel to give interviews to their hometown newspapers, television stations and other media outlets and praise the American war effort in Iraq.

How much more blood are YOU willing to see spilled so that American corporations can fleece your pockets each time you go to the gas pump?

Wake up people. The terrorist aren’t in the Middle East. They’re right here where they’ve always been. The terrorist are Americans of every stripe. Government employees, politicians, contractors, oil companies, multinationals, gas guzzling SUV owners, you, me, all of us. We are terrorizing the world, even killing our own because of insatiable appetites and greed. And we don’t care how we do it either. Napalm, cluster bombs, white phosphorus, carpet bombing, kidnaping, rape, sexual slavery, murder, assassination, lies, coverups, fabrication of evidence, distortion of fact and rewrite of history, we don’t care. America is an illusion, being built upon the skeletons of human lives the world over. The truth is, it has always been this way, but it is politically incorrect to point this out.

I am not so naieve as to belief that 2006 will be honest and truthful. There is every indication that it will be as it was before, "business as usual".