Please read: (1)  "Study: False Statements preceded war."   There were 935 lies in a two year period.  President Bush lied 259 times.  Secretary of State Colin Powell lied 254 times.  National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice lied 56 times.
How many times have Senators Clinton, McCain, Bayh, Lugar, Obama and Rep. "AIPAC Mike" Pence lied? 

(2)
"Truth was first U.S. casualty in Iraq war: Study"

The Middle East: Israel, PNAC,
AIPAC, Saudi Arabia and
“BLOOD MONEY”

The problems of the Middle East are very complex. They are worsening because of 1) America's illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq, 2) The determination and arrogance of the pro-Israeli, American Jewish led PNAC, (Project for a New American Century)
aka "the neocons" to expand America's imperialism and nation building in the Middle East,
by the use of American military force, at the expense of the Muslim world. 3) The influence of The American Israeli Public Affairs Committee on Congress and Congress placing Israel's interests before American interests, ( not upholding the U.S. Constitution) by allowing American taxpayer aid to be used to help Israel subjugate and control the Palestinians and more and more Arab lands and peoples. 4) President Bush's and Congress's refusal to support efforts for a "just" peace between Israel and the Palestinians. 
5) The influence of the Sunni Wahhabbi clerics in Saudi Arabia in teaching and exporting violence because of their hatred for Jews, Israel  and all western culture.  (Please remember that Osama Bin Ladin is a Saudi, Sunni Wahhabbi. Also 15 0f the 19 (9-11) hijackers  were Saudi citizens.) Do you see a connection?

STOP!  In the section on The Iraq War & Occupation, I strongly
emphasized that ALL AMERICANS should read Dr. Norman D. Livengood's,
"The New U.S. British Oil Imperialism."  
  Before proceeding further in this section, it is imperative that ALL AMERICANS read Michelle
Mairesse's
"The Bush-Saudi Connection."
These two articles really inform America as to why we are in the
Middle East & the problems with alleged Saudi sponsored
terrorism which Bush and A Democratic controlled Congress ignore.

 

How Many More American Troops Will Suffer & Die Because of  The Project For The New American Century And Congress' Schemes To Control The Middle East Because of Oil and on Behalf of Israel? No More American Blood or Monies For Israel & The Project For a New American Century! See (PNAC) See (“Blood Money”)
How Many More American Kids From The Working Class, The Poor and The Minorities Will Die Needless Deaths Because Of The Interests of Oil, Israel, PNAC and Bush’s, Cheney's and A Democratic controlled Congress’ lies and deceit? 
There were no WMD!
The U.S. is in Iraq because of oil, empire building, (petrol-fascism)  Israel and Saudi Arabia!
Americans should be aware that at the 2007 National
Convention of The American-Israeli-Public-Affairs Committee
(AIPAC),
V.P. Cheney boasted, to thunderous applause, "We (the U.S.) will never leave Iraq"!  Speaker Pelosi, Majority leader Steny Hoyer, Rep. Boehner, Senators Obama and Rodham Clinton were all in attendance! 

So how powerful is the Israel Lobby?Well, in this American veteran's opinion, the Israel Lobby, especially AIPAC,
controls America's foreign policy in the Middle East because members
of Congress have "sold out."

Please read Ari Berman's excellent article, "AIPAC's Hold."

So, if the Israel Lobby, especially AIPAC, supports our occupation
  of Iraq, then why aren't they and their children fighting and dieing in Iraq on behalf of Israel, instead of American troops, (mainly children of poor, working class & minority families.)

Why aren't the warmongering Israelphiles in Congress; i.e.,
Rodham Clinton, Obama, Reid, Bayh,Jr., Biden, Lieberman,
Levin, Lugar, Pelosi, Hoyer, Boehner, Pence, Waxman,etc. fighting and dieing in Iraq on behalf of Israel?
Does Congress benefit from contributions from an Israel Lobby?
Of course, it does! 
Our current Congress is the very best that the Pro-Israel Lobby monies can buy!

Columnist Charley Reese has written an excellent article,
"Cut Israel Off." Please read it. 
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, Minority Leader John Boehner and Zionist Rep. "Neocon Mike"
Pence should all have to register as lobbyists/agents for Israel!

Do you find my language offensive?  Good!  If you do, I hope it wakes you up!    How offensive do you find the carnage of this war and occupation that, because of the greed of “Blood Money,” has placed so much blood on “Christian” America’s hands, all because of President Bush and Congress' lies, deceit and greed on behalf of "empire building," (petrol-fascism) oil and the interests of Israel!







































FOLKS, THIS WAR AND OCCUPATION IS TRULY A BETRAYAL OF AMERICA’S TRUST, A BETRAYAL OF OUR CHRISTIAN VALUES, A BETRAYAL OF OUR AMERICAN VALUES AND A BETRAYAL OF OUR GREAT CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!. 
That is why the war and occupation has been a catastrophe.
I have opposed this war since 2002 because I knew it was based on
"Blood Money,"  that is lies, deceit and greed, because of oil and empire building, (petrol-fascism) and the interests of Israel!


In my opinion, America should realize that Bush, Cheney, Senators Reid, Lieberman, Evans Bayh III, Obama, and Clinton and  Reps. Pelosi, Hoyer, Boehner, Pence and Congress have "sold out" the control of our Middle East Policy to  Non-Christian, Likud Israel and The Israel Lobby.
Please read,
"Israel Lobby Dictates U.S. Policy, Study Charges"

Osama Ben Ladin has made the claim that America is waging war on the Islam religion.  Is this true?  In “Blood Money,” William Rivers Pitt quotes PNAC member Norman Podhoretz on “regimes”  in the Middle East, “that richly deserve to be overthrown and replaced , are not confined to the three singled out members of the axis of evil. At a minimum, the axis should extend to Syria and Lebanon and Libya, as well as ‘friends’ of America like the Saudi royal family and Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, along with the Palestinian Authority, whether headed by Arafat or one of his henchman.”   Also “the long-overdue and internal reform and modernization of Islam.”  Pitts writes, “The drive behind this war is ideological in nature, a crusade to ’reform’ the religion of Islam in both government and society within the Middle East.”  If this is true and I believe it is, then what does “reform” of the religion of Islam mean?  Does it mean the destruction of the Islam faith, or that Moslems are to be forcefully converted to Judaism? 

It should be the concern of all Americans as to how a small number of American Jews in concert with other pro-Israeli elements, now control America’s foreign policy, in the Middle East.  Please see "The Israel Lobby."  America finds itself in the fourth year of an endless, senseless war in Iraq.  This is why it is so important to read and understand “Blood Money.” 

Pitts reminds us, "This movement, cloaked in Democracy, is in fact a PNAC-inspired push for an American global empire.”

The war in Iraq is only the first of endless wars in order to achieve the goals of the Jewish dominated, Pro-Israeli “Project For The New American Century.” Am I anti-Semitic?  No, as a U.S. veteran, I am pro American. I pledge my allegiance to America, not to Israel or PNAC or AIPAC.  I see no need for American troops to be suffering and dieing for these “empire builders" and Israelphiles!
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Consider this, President Bush and Rep. Pence proclaim, “We are winning!”  But, an article in News.Telegraph, January 30, 2005,  stated,
U.S. Troops will never overcome insurgents, warns senior officer. (American General Abizaid  of U.S. Central Command.)

There is not a single city or province in Iraq that is militarily secured; this after nearly five  years of endless war, at a projected cost of $ two to three trillion, with over 29,000 American casualties, thus far, ( over 3900 dead and 27,000 wounded) and one third of returning troops suffering from some form of PTSD.  So Congressman Pence, answer this;  “How long will it take to secure the entire country, and at what costs in money, American casualties and suffering“? 

As of December 20, 2006, both Colin Powell, (Bush's former Sec'y of State and Chief of Staff of The Armed Forces during the Gulf War) and GeneralAbizaid of U.S. Central Command are opposed to increasing U.S. troop levels in Iraq!  .

Answer this America, “What is it going to take to wake you up"? 

So how is this continued grand venture to be financed?  Again, in “Blood Money,” Pitt writes, “Essential social, medical, educational and retirement services will have to be gutted so that these funds can be directed towards a necessary military build up.“ Already the Bush administration is slashing veterans’ and other social program services.  Fees for veterans’ medical care and prescriptions are being drastically increased." In my section on “The Economy” and “Social Security” I show that the Social Security Surplus of $ 2.2 trillion has been embezzled  and the national debt is at $ 9.3 trillion with a new ceiling of $ 9.815  trillion. In other words, The Social Security Surplus has been spent to finance over 20% of the national debt! How is the $ 9.3 trillion national debt going to be repaid?  It will never be repaid!  The monies embezzled from Social Security, by Bush, Pence and Congress will never be repaid! Bush, Congress and Rep. Pence have effectively gutted Social Security. 

Seniors must  understand the Social Security Surplus has been spent to help finance tax cuts for the very wealthy, increased aid to Israel and the national debt of $ 9.3 trillion.  While Rep. Pence has claimed to be a “fiscal conservative”  believing in a “balanced budget,” and against “deficit spending,” his actions speak otherwise.  Rep. Pence has been the biggest supporter of this war, (which I consider criminal carnage) and aid to Israel. . 

This war and the daily aid to Israel, ( $ 11 million/day or $ 5 billion yearly) have been
partially financed with the $ 2.1 trillion of the Social Security Surplus.  There is no surplus, it has been embezzled. Because of the debt, and the costs of this endless war and aid to Israel, the Economy will collapse and it will be catastrophic for all Americans, especially Seniors and America's needy children who depend so much on Social Security..             
        
When I announced my candidacy in June, 2005, I stressed that the Iraq war and occupation were in Israel’s interests , not America’s, and there was no exit strategy!   This war has been based upon lies, deceit, greed and empire building for power and profit (petrol-fascism) and the interests of Israel. President Bush, PNAC and Reid, Pelosi, Hoyer, Boehner andRep. Pence plan on the U.S. to stay in  Iraq indefinitely and then move into Iran!. 
The next country to be attacked will be Iran!  Please read Dr. Livergood's, "The new U.S.-British Oil Imperialism." 

Today, a psychopathic President Bush, (God's Messenger) is threatening Iran with nuclear war on behalf Bush's Junta of "petrol-fascists" and because of Israel and PNAC.  The Israeli Iran issue has its roots in Israel’s and PNAC’s desire to wipe out Iran. See (“Blood Money.“) Neo-con Rep. Mike Pence was pushing for an invasion of Iran before the smoke settled in Baghdad.  He had a link on his website advocating this. At a town hall meeting in Connersville, he lied about this link, saying it was not on his web site! Israel has at least 200-400 nuclear warheads, so Iran wants to balance that with “nukes” of their own.  The Israeli Iran problem is a U.N. problem and should be settled by the U.N.  It’s not America’s or Rep. Mike Pence’s problem.  The solution is to declare The Middle East “a nuclear free zone.”  This would be U.N. mandated and supervised.  Iran would not be allowed to develop any nuclear weapons and Israel would have to give up it’s nukes under U.N. supervision.  Please See (“Gulf Presses NATO for nuclear free zone” )

George Bisharat has written an excellent paper “Should Israel Give Up its Nukes“?  Please read it very carefully.  He concludes his paper with “Sooner or later, common sense must prevail in our Middle East Policy.  Otherwise, we will continue to run our global stature into the ground.”  
So why isn’t this being done?  Because
the Israeli lobby and PNAC now control U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.   In my opinion, Reps. Mike Pence, John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer  pledge their allegiance to Israel, not America.  All, especially Pence, should wear an Israeli flag lapel pin. How can supporting a nuclear war on behalf of Israel and PNAC benefit the voters of the Sixth District?   It can’t!  Americans must not stand silent while Bush, Senators Hillary Clinton, Joe Lieberman, Evans Bayh, Jr., House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Reps. Steny Hoyer, John Boehner,  and Zionist Rep. "Neo-Con Mike", ( I love Israel)  Pence involve our great country in another war on behalf of Israel and PNAC for Blood Money!” 

Does Congress benefit from contributions from the Israel Lobby? Of course, it does! This is the best Congress that the Israel Lobby's monies can buy!   

Please see (“Pro-Israeli lobby in U.S. under attack.”)    Please remember, The Iran-Israeli issue is a U.N. issue, not America’s!
 
In an article by Ira Glunts, See (“The Israel Lobby Redux”) the statement is made, ”Two Israeli prominent journalists wrote that Colin Powell understood and feared the power of the lobby.”


Before  the Iraq war occurred, I told a veteran acquaintance that, although no WMD had been found, I was convinced that President Bush would ignore the U.N. inspections and invade Iraq.   He replied “Oh, he (Bush) wouldn’t do that!”  BUSH DID!  If anyone thinks I am being over concerned, then please see, "Get Ready For WW III, by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts“ and (“Israel, Iran and the U.S. Nuclear War, Here We Come”) by Jorge Hirsh.

Again, will you please  read 
“Blood Money.”

As early as last December, The Times UK had an article, “Israel Readies Forces for Strike on Nuclear Iran.”  Again please remember the Israeli Iran issue should be a U.N. issue,  not America’s or Rep. Mike Pence’s issue.  Rep. Pence should devote his time to finding jobs for Sixth District voters, not getting the U.S. into a war with Iran!. 
Rep. Mike Pence should have to register as an agent/lobbyist of Israel!

Former Reaganite officials, Dr Paul Craig Roberts and Gen’l. Wm. Odom have been very outspoken against the Iraq War and Invasion.  Please see Dr. Roberts excellent, (“ How Long Can This Go On?”)  Also please see Gen’l. Odom’s (“What’s wrong with cutting and running”) and (“Want Stability in The Middle East?  Get out of Iraq!”)  
While Democratic Hawks, such as Hillary Rodham Clinton, “Jewish Joe”  Lieberman, Barack Obama and others beat the Iran “war drum,” The Libertarian Party suggests reason, not rhetoric. Please see (“Will We Let Bush Invade Iran?”)

What should Americans do?  George E. Bisharat gives us the answer in his article,
(“Advance U.S.  - not Israel’s interests.)

Former President Jimmy Carter is the only official from either political party that has stressed that there must be fairness in the U.S. approach to the Israeli-Palestinian crises!
Please see
"Israel, Palestine, peace and apartheid."    Also "Colonization of Palestine Precludes Peace."
  Also
"Jimmy Carter's Apartheid Charge Rings True" by Saree Makdisi.


If you will read The New York Times article, (“Pro-Israeli Lobbying Group Roiled by Prosecution of Two Ex-Officials”) you will learn how a Defense Department analyst was sentenced to 12 ½  years in prison for pleading guilty to passing classified information to two former officials of AIPAC.  As a veteran, my concern is, if these allegations are proven true, then whose interests were being served? Has AIPAC been spying on America?   Was this information going to Israel and for what purposes?  

In closing , please remember that I contacted Rep. Pence and Rush County Chair John McCane asking them to enter into a public forum debate with me regarding the Financial Times article, “Most Troops Want Swift US Pull-Out from Iraq” which showed 72% of our troops in Iraq wanted a complete “withdrawal” within twelve months while 29% wanted an “immediate” pull out.  Rep. Pence and Rush County Republican Chair ignored my letters! 

Our troops are being sent back to Iraq for second, third and even fourth combat tours!  In the Kroger Store parking lot, I tried to explain to Rush County Republican Chair John McCane, my concerns that many of our troops being sent to Iraq for multiple combat tours. I stressed the high incidence of the catastrophic PTSD. This veteran considers this to be “criminal, barbaric and fascist!” McCane's reaction, he actually snorted and walked away!
I support the troops and that is why Mr. Bush must be impeached!  

“Blood Money”
warns us of the “martial law” that will be imposed!  I’m not willing to give up my liberties so easily and I hope you aren’t! I intend to exercise my freedom of speech and peaceful assembly to protest the “criminal carnage” of Bush, Pence's and Chairman John McCane's war!    
I supported the troops and their desire for a complete withdrawal by the end of 2006.  I have asked Rep, Pence to debate me on this issue and he has refused! For Congress, especially my representative, cowardly, Zionist Rep. Mike “chicken ****” Pence, to deny our troops this justice is “criminal, barbaric and fascist! Rep. Pence, Bush, Cheney, Republican Rush County Chair John McCane and the rest of the pro-Israeli “warmongers” (advocates of war) are asking our troops to do what they are too cowardly and will never do themselves!

Israel receives $ 11 million/day, ($ 5 billion per year) in American taxpayer aid. Over one half of this aid is in military aid of $ 3 billion a year for the next ten years. How is this supposed to bring "peace" to the Middle East? With America's great debt and our many social-economical problems here at home, why are we sending Israel $11 million/day? I will propose legislation outlawing all aid to Israel. 

This U.S. veteran  has followed his  conscience, spoken out against the war, publicly demonstrated, and become a Congressional Candidate trying to save American lives!

WHERE IS YOUR CONSCIENCE?  WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO SAVE AMERICAN LIVES?
George Holland For Congress - 2008
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There are many prominent Jewish Americans who are opposed to AIPAC and AIPAC's influence on America's foreign policy regarding Israel and the Palestinian crises.  Rabbi Bruce Warshall, St. Louis Light, has written a wonderful article; "A RABBI ON WHY AIPAC IS BAD FOR ISRAEL AND AMERICAN JEWS."
Excerpts include, "Oh my God, Someone has publicly outed the 'Israel Lobby'...I agree with Walt and Mearsheimer that AIPAC controls our American government policy toward Israel."

" My complaint is that the self-appointed Jewish leaders who control AIPAC and other positions of power within the Jewish community do not represent the best interests of Jews, Israel or the United States in the long run."
"Let's zero in on AIPAC.  It is controlled by right-wing, rich Jewish neo-conservatives."
"Beware that you are reading treasonable material. If you 'out' the 
Israeli lobby and you are Gentile, you're branded an anti-Semite, if you are Jewish, you're obviously a self-hating Jew.  The Jewish establishment abides no criticism of Israel." 
"Beware of these self-appointed guardians of Israel and Jewish values.  In the end they will destroy everything that makes Judaism
a compassionate religion, and if in their zeal they do not destroy Israel, they certainly will not make it more secure." 

Another highly respected Jewish American,
Mr. George Soros has written an excellent, "must read" article.  .Please read "On Israel, America and AIPAC."

       
 


         What is the role of the Saudi   government in all of this? (And what President Bush & Congress don't want you to know! Please remember, 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers were Saudis! )
Do you see a connection?

Michelle Mairesse's The Bush-Saudi Connection ends with
"There is irrefutable evidence that highly placed Saudis aided and supported the terrorists who murdered over 3,000 American citizens on September 11, 2001.  Yet George Bush persists in protecting and colluding with those who sponsor terrorists.  Is this not an act of treason? 
George Bush should be impeached!"

STOP!  If you have not read "The Bush-Saudi Connection", please do it now or go to www.new-enlightenment.com

In Michelle Mairesse'
s The-Bush Saudi Connection, she informs us:  "On October 12, 2000,  two suicide bombers ignited their boat load of explosives next to the USS Cole, an American destroyer refueling in Aden, off the coast of Yemen.  The blast killed seventeen sailors and wounded thirty-nine others. O'Neill and his crack investigating team were dispatched to Yemen and hit a stonewall.  He had hoped satellite intercepts of phone calls between al-Qaeda operatives in Aden and Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan would lead him to the mastermind of the Cole attack, but the American ambassador and the Yemeni officials blocked the investigation at every turn."
"Oneill resigned from the F.B.I. in July 2001, and signed on as security chief for the World Trade Center in September.  He died in the W.T.C. attack on September 11, 2001."

"In Forbidden Truth: U.S. -Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy
and the failed hunt for bin Laden, two French intelligence analysts, Jean Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, claim that the Clinton and Bush administrations impeded investigations of bin Laden and his al Qaeda terrorist group in order to maintain good relations with Saudi Arabia and to maintain the stability of the oil market.  "As the late John O'Neill told one of the authors, (Brisard) of this book,
"All of the answers, all of the clues allowing us to dismantle Osama bin Laden's organization can be found in
Saudi Arabia."


This Congressional candidate also strongly recommends that you read
, "Sleeping With The Devil," 'How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude' written by ex-CIA operative, Robert Baer.

On the back cover you can rea
d: "In Sleeping with the
Devil
, former CIA operative Robert Baer reveals startling details about the Saudis and their relationship with the United States, including:"
--"Over the past decade, Saudi Arabia has transferred half a billion dollars to al Qaeda and at least $100 million to the Taliban".

--"With America's complicity, the Saudis have provided aid, shelter and material comfort to the Muslim brotherhood."

--"Saudi Arabia's Wahhabbi-controlled mosque schools are hothouses of militant Islamic extremism.  Terrorist acts in Bali, Kenya, Bosnia, and Chechnya all point back at these schools. So do the 3,000 deaths of 9/11."

--"Almost everyone who's anyone in Washington--from George Bush, Sr. to Henry Kissinger, Al Gore, and Dick Cheney--has stuck a hand in the Saudi cookie jar.  The Saudis contribute to both political parties, and they reward their supporters lavishly."

--"Private Investment groups like The Carlyle Group and leading American corporations like Boeing McDonnell Douglas line up to do business with the Saudis, even though they know much of the money generated gets siphoned off in bribes to the ruling family."

Craig Unger's book,
House of Bush House of Saud,
The Secret Relationship Between The World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties
should be required reading for all Americans!
Here are some concerns Unger's book raises;
"How did the Bushes, America's most powerful political family, become gradually seduced by and entwined with their Saudi counterparts"?

"How is it that just two days after September 11, 2001 when American air traffic was all but shut down, 140 Saudi citizens, many kin to Osama bin Laden, were permitted to leave the country?  Why didn't the FBI question the people on the planes?  Why did a Saudi billionaire socialize in the White House with President George W. Bush on September 13, and why did Saudi Arabia- the birthplace of nearly all the hijackers- get preferential treatment from the White House even as the World Trade Center continued to burn"?

"Given their business relationships with Saudis charged with financing Osama bin Laden's jihad, have the house of Bush's business interests compromised America's war on terror"? 

Remember this book
House of Bush House of Saud.

To understand Saudi Arabia's current role, we must go back to at least the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, the 8 1/2 year war between Iran & Saddam Hussein's Iraq and events leading up to 9/11 
If you have read the section
on The Iraq War & Occupation, you know that during the Russian occupation of Afghanistan, the Saudi and American governments were instrumental in organizing, supporting, supplying and funding the Afghan resistance, the "freedom fighters" or mujahideen, to fight Russia's "infidel" invasion and occupation.
Many of these mujahideen, including Osama Bin Ladin, came out of Saudi Arabia, and went into Afghanista
n, as part of the Saudi & U. S. supported resistance effort.  It is now common knowledge that during this time that Osama Bin Ladin became a highly respected mujahideen and  made contacts with  mujahideen from other other moslem  countries, especially  Pakistan and Afghanistan, (the Taliban).  All of this was being funded and controlled by America's C.I.A. and the Saudi government!

Please remember that Arab-Moslem countries  were well familiar with the history of their countries being invaded and occupied by "infidel"  non-moslem powers; i.e., Spain, France, England and then Russia.

What is the lesson to be learned from Russia's defeat in Afghanistan?  That Western governments, with their superior firepower, heavy armor and air mobility cannot defeat "homegrown" resistance.  Time is on the opposition's side.  The U.S. cannot stay in these Middle East Moslem countries any more than England or France; or Russia was able to stay in Afghanistan. President Bush's & Congress's war in Afghanistan, and their war on & occupation of Iraq, on behalf of oil, empire building and Israel were doomed to fail.  So will Bush and 2008 President designate, Senator John (Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran) McCain  and Congress's war with Iran. 

A lesson which the U.S. apparently didn't learn from Vietnam, but one Russia did learn in Afghanistan is that in third world countries, (especially moslem), it is difficult to occupy a country indefinitely without widespread majority support for  your goals
.  If there is wide spread opposition to your goals, then you are in some deep doo doo.  This is what happened in Vietnam and now is happening in Afghanistan and Iraq. 
Please remember; even with a Shite majority which has benefitted from our invasion; at least 65% of Iraq's populace are against our occupation and support insurgent attacks upon American troops! 
Please remember, Iraq's 8 1/2 war with Iran was due to land disputes.
It is my belief that Iraq went to war with Iran also because Saddam Hussein and other Sunni governments  felt threatened by Iran's Shiite Islamic revolution and a more powerful Shiite Iran.  The U.S. supported Saddam Hussein and supplied him with military equipment and intelligence in trying to halt the spread of Shiite Islamic fundalmenmtalism into Iraq.  If it were not for U.S. aid, Saddam Hussein would have been "toast," as Iran had a more powerful military and three times the number of troops as Iraq.