1972: Hussein nationalizes its oil fields, and excludes US (Exxon-Mobile) and English (British Petroleum) oil companies.

1980 September 22: Iraq invades Iran, but despite US support, Iraq does not invite US oil companies back into Iraq.

1980: Haliburton repairs the Iran bomb damage to the ABOT oil terminal it built in Iraq in the early 1970s.

1982?: Bush's oil company sells to the Kuwaitis the bits necessary for them to slant-drill into Iraq oil fields by way of the eleven wells along the Iraq-Kuwait border (shown burning during Desert Storm). The Kuwaitis allegedly steal 300,000 and 350,000 barrels a day. Haliburton absorbed Sperry Sun, which had developed the tool necessary to measure the inclination of the bore hole during diagonal drilling. 

1990: US suckers Iraq into invading Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia accepts US troops on its holly soil to defend against the bogus threat of an invasion from Iraq. Consequently, Saudi Arabia rejects Osama bin Laudin's offer of assistance, which infuriates bin Laudin. According to a buried 60 Minutes Interview, by the tenth day of the Bush administration, the intent to invade Iraq was established as its goal, G.W. Bush:  "Find me a way to do it!"

1991: Americans are suckered into repulsing Iraq with bogus reports of babies being killed, but Norman Schwarzkopf stops short of invading Iraq after press reports of the slaughter of Iraqis fleeing Kuwait. Access to Iraq oil fields would have to await a second Bush administration. WMDs are destroyed. Haliburton repairs the US bomb damage to the ABOT and Khor al-Amaya oil terminals done during Desert Storm.

2003 March 20: Iraq added to the global empire.

2004 January 13: Iraq invasion and occupation result in the Abu Ghraib scandal. Torture may have been used to find the enemies of the Bush administration and its poliicies rather than find enemies of the U.S.A.

2004 August 24: 'Iraq was awash in cash. We played football with bricks of $100 bills'. 'Staggering Amount' of Cash Missing In Iraq.

2005 April 30: Custer Battles - U.S. contracting firm accused of bilking millions and running wild in Iraq.

2006 December 30:  Saddam Hussein is executed.

2007 April 28: The Senate's No. 2 Democrat, Senator Durbin says he knew that the American public was being misled into the Iraq war, but remained silent, because he was sworn to secrecy as a member of the intelligence committee.

2009:  Exxon-Mobile and British Petroleum and other oil companies recover the pumping contracts nationalized by Saddam Hussein. Mission accomplished!

2010: Bush, Chaney and Rumsfeld 'knew Guantánamo prisoners were innocent'

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