imilarly, the blueprint states that "while the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein.” Rumsfeld was so determined to obtain a rationale for an attack on Iraq we now know that on 10 separate occasions he asked the CIA to find evidence linking Iraq to 911 which of course they could not produce. Instead, the Bush administration, with help from Tony Blair’s cabinet, used the press to legitimize false intelligence reports to garner support for the invasion and the rest, as we say - is history.

The war on “terrorism” has given free license to the US plan for world domination and its plunder of Muslim lands and oil. So two years on, what has been the result?

What has not resulted is justice for the families of the precious lives that were lost on 911 anymore than it has for the hundreds of thousands of precious lives that were cut short before them in Iraq, Palestine, Bosnia, Somalia, Chechnya and a host of other countries at the hands of a wicked American Foreign Policy. We will never have peace until we fully understand the roots of this ongoing conflict and the real motives of America are out in the open and stopped.

Since the so-called war on “terrorism” began, we can now also add an estimated 6500 civilian deaths and a whopping 30,000 estimated injured, an estimated 1200 Coalition soldiers still swept under the carpet by the Pentagon and who knows how many dead and injured Mujahideen in Afghanistan. And that front goes on. We can also add to that, an estimated 10,000 Iraqi civilian casualties as the result of the unprovoked invasion of Iraq, an estimated 28,000 injured, an estimated 13,000 Iraqi forces killed or injured, untold numbers of resistance fighters killed or injured, 338 Coalition deaths according to Centcom with real estimates three times that with an average of the loss of a soldier a day currently, over 1100 US soldiers injured in action and over 6,000 returned to American soil for physical or mental illness. And that front goes on.

There are still over 600 prisoners, including children and seniors, being held in 2ft x 6ft cages in Guantanamo Bay who have not been charged with any crime, have no legal representation and that the Pentagon admits are not high level captures who are now most likely awaiting the death chambers Haliburton recently built, There are over 3500 “illegal combatants” still being held under similar conditions in Afghanistan and some 6,000 detainees currently held inside Iraq, all with no rights and no trials. There are countless numbers of Muslims being held around the world and still an estimated 900 incarcerated without charge in America who were rounded up in the aftermath of 911 and when they appeared for “special registration”. And of course Sulayman al-Faris (John Walker Lindh) is still serving out his 20 year sentence for aiding the Taliban against the Northern Alliance, never having even aimed a gun at an American.

This is quite an impressive result indeed, particularly when considering the further backlash of anger these crimes have caused. Americans are less safe now than ever and are rapidly being reduced to living inside a glass bubble – a bubble where their own rights have been eroded. The sweeping powers granted to the Bush administration in the wake of 911 that brought the Patriots Act, Patriots Act 2, the right to be monitored without knowledge, the right to be detained with out cause, the right to be censored, the establishment of a secret government who are implementing policies and programs without accountability, are all now part and parcel of America’s “free” society.

Another “accomplishment” is that America has managed to affront even its strongest allies with its illegal invasion of Iraq and has shown the whole world what its true colors are. From the American controlled Afghanistan pipeline project now underway with donor funds under the banner of “reconstruction” to the plunder of Iraq’s oil fields, cash assets and inequities and the humongous no-bid contracts awarded to the likes of Haliburton and Bechtel that have Iraqis now living without basic services like water, electricity and telephones and in much worse conditions than even under the tyrant Saddam, the reality of the US agenda escapes few. The audacity of America in approaching the UN, an institution it has long employed to do its bidding, to now expect the support of International community, the very same community it rejected outright (calling names and cancelled contracts with) while the US insists on continuing to hold on to Iraq’s oil and money, is surely not lost on the world stage either.

With no weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq, America has more than a credibility problem; it now has a problem of criminal liability. The absence of WMD means that the estimated 500,000 Iraqi children that died as the result of sanctions since 1994 when weapons inspectors reported the country was clean, have died totally unnecessarily and can be directly attributed to America’s reckless disregard for anything that gets in the way of their agenda, including human life, whether abroad or at home.

The Bush administration claims to have put “a serious dint” in the Al-Qaida network but has failed to apprehend their most wanted suspect, Osama bin Laden. From where I sit, this is surely because America is not looking. In late September and early October 2001, leaders of Pakistan's two Islamist parties negotiated Bin Laden's extradition to Pakistan to stand trial for 911. However, a US official said, significantly, that "casting our objectives too narrowly" risked "a premature collapse of the international effort if by some lucky chance Mr. Bin Laden was captured". In November 2001, the US airforce complained it had had Al-Qaida and Taliban leaders in its sights as many as 10 times over the previous six weeks, but had been unable to attack because they did not receive permission quickly enough.