Daisy Montenez

2. CAUTION!!
THIS POWERPOINT
CONTAINS SOME
GRUESOME PICTURES

4. Terrorism
Crime
committed to
create fear
and terror

6. On Nov. 21, 2001, 72 days after the terrorist attacks on the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Bush directed Rumsfeld to
begin planning for war with Iraq.
Previously reported that Bush directed the Pentagon to begin
considering options for an invasion of Iraq immediately after the
Sept. 11 attacks.

8. • March 20, 2003 ,the
military invasion of
Iraq began. The 2003
invasion of Iraq, led by
US army General
Tommy Franks, began
under the codename
"Operation Iraqi
Liberation", later
renamed "Operation
Iraqi Freedom"

10. Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve,
safely out of office, confessed in his memoir, "Everyone
knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil." He elaborated in
an interview with The Washington Post's Bob Woodward, "If
Saddam Hussein had been head of Iraq and there was no oil
under those sands, our response to him would not have
been as strong as it was in the first Gulf War."

12. November 2004
• United Nations
Security Council
reports described
terrorism as an act to
bodily harm people or
kill them just to
intimidate a
population.
• Terrorist also may
attack high end levels
of power just to show
they have power and
are in control to obtain
what they want.

14. Victims Of The War

16. • May 1, 2003:
President Bush
addresses the
nation from the
aircraft carrier USS
Abraham Lincoln
and declares the
end of "major
combat operations"
in Iraq.

18. • A video
11 May, 2004-
posted on an Islamic
militant website
shows the beheading
of US hostage Nick
Berg.
• In the video the
civilians captors
among them Abu
Musab alZarqawi
say they are
avenging the
abuse of Iraqi

20. War generates Billions of dollars to Government contracted businesses
allowing for the rich to get richer, the poorer to suffer
Others feel that this war has become a raquettier for big business to
get bigger and small businesses to stay small

22. • November, 2006- Many Iraqis
celebrate as Saddam Hussein is
convicted of crimes against
humanity and sentenced to
death by hanging.

24. On December 30, 2006 Saddam
Hussein was hanged

26. Thousands of families have loved ones fighting overseas,
some will never see their husband, wife, son, or daughter
again.
Thousands more become wounded or develop psychological
illnesses that go
Untreated.
Lives torn apart for a war that only can be speculated on.