Bush went to Iraq and his mind was only preoccupied with two things: oil and Israel’s security

Additional Reporting By Ahmad Maher, IOL Cairo Staff

BAGHDAD, April 21 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Continuing their series of groundless information from behind their comfortable screen of anonymity, U.S. military officials said Sunday, April 20, that an “unidentified” Iraqi scientist claimed that the Iraqi regime had destroyed chemical weapons and biological warfare equipment on the eve of the U.S.-led war on Iraq.

Trying to save the faces of their president, who came under press diatribe recently for failing to give hard evidence on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, the officials told The New York Times that the scientist led Americans to a supply of material that proved to be the building blocks of illegal weapons, which they claimed that it provided evidence of Iraq's illicit weapons programs.

They went far beyond that as alleging, according to “their proclaimed” scientist, that the Iraqi regime had destroyed some stockpiles of deadly agents as early as the mid-1990s and transferred others to Syria.

The so-called Mobile Exploitation Team Alpha, or MET Alpha, which found the scientist, declined to identify him, saying they “feared” he might be subject to reprisals.

But reprisals from whom? Now that the U.S. has already toppled Saddam Hussein’s feared regime accused of intimidating scientists in their halcyon days.

They, in effect, considered the scientist credible and that the material unearthed over the last three days at sites to which he led them had proved to be precursors for a toxic agent that was banned by chemical weapons treaties.

But reality and chief U.N. arms inspectors in Iraq Dr. Hans Blix bear witness that thus far not even a sniff, not a drum of VX or mustard gas, not a phial of anthrax, not a shred of evidence that Iraq was assembling a nuclear weapons program, refuting the “cooked-up” allegations of the administration’s team.

They only want to dig up any justification for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Any thing to entrench their foothold in the oil-rich country.

Senior U.S. officials, who all requested “anonymity” without an apparent reason, told the Times Sunday about maintaining perhaps four key bases in Iraq that could be used in the future.

Add to that, the “ghost” officials asked that details of what chemicals were uncovered be deleted under the old hoary pretext that such information could “jeopardize the scientist's safety.”

But reality tells a different story. Finding no hard evidence on Iraq’s nuclear program will, no doubt, make the U.S. unjustified war on Iraq a political issue in Washington that could cost pro-war presidential candidates for 2004 votes. 

Some of respected British newspapers tried recently to draw the public attention to the fact that they had been fooled by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who tirelessly parroted claims of U.S. President George W. Bush about Iraq’s WMDs.

The mass-circulation Independent said that the U.S. and U.K. leaders waged their war on Iraq since they were pretty sure that “their reasonable and trusting people, mostly accepted the word of their rulers.”

On the other hand, some see that the prime purposes of the U.S.-led war on Iraq are to maintain Israel’s security and beef up its shambolic economy by devouring oil resources in Iraq, which has the second largest oil reserves in the world.