By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA)
WMD LIES, OIL MAPS & ANUNNAKI DOMINATION DEMENTIA
Howard Zinn argued before the invasion that Iraqi WMD possession, even if true, did not create a “clear and present danger” justifying war. He later mocked the WMD claims as “lies, lies, lies,” pointing to failed claims about drones, mobile labs, and decontamination trucks.
Noam Chomsky framed Iraq as a matter of domination, not liberation. He emphasized that Iraq itself had been an artificial imperial construction tied to British control of northern oil, later maintained by U.S. power.
Chris Harman read the Iraq War through the lens of capitalism and imperialism: modern capitalism merges state power, military force, and capital accumulation, producing repeated wars, occupations, and crises.
Thom Hartmann has repeatedly framed the Iraq War as a lie-based corporate war that enriched Halliburton and similar firms while killing Americans and Iraqis.
The Iraq Survey Group found no active Iraqi WMD stockpiles after the invasion; the Cheney Energy Task Force had Iraq oil-field maps and “Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield Contracts” documents dated March 2001, before 9/11.
THE LIE THAT OPENED THE GATE
Bush, Cheney, Blair, and their media amplifiers told the public Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. The tale served as a ritual fear trigger: to terrify the public, sanctify the invasion, and silence dissent.
Dominator Pattern: Yahweh/Enlil-style obedience demand: Fear the enemy. Trust the war chiefs. Attack first.
Cooperator Response: Ninmah consciousness asks: Who benefits? Who dies? Who profits?
CHENEY DIVIDED OIL FIELDS AMONG HIS OILMAN FRIENDS & SENT HIS BLACKWATER THUGS TO CONTROL THE IRAQIS
Before the invasion, Cheney’s Energy Task Force possessed Iraqi oil-field maps and lists of foreign companies interested in Iraqi oil contracts. Cheney investigated Iraq’s resources as his spoils, as well, he concluded, as employing Blackwater, his private security company, if he could get the U.S. to occupy Iraq.
The wells are not just wells, the oilmen said; they are arteries. Control the arteries, and you control the body.”
ZINN: THE PEOPLE ARE MISSING FROM THE WAR STORY
Zinn insisted that official war talk erased ordinary people. Politicians discussed weapons, strategy, regime change, and oil, but not the civilians beneath the bombs.
Iraqi Civilians said, We did not vote in Washington. We did not sit in Saddam’s palace. Yet the missile found our street.
CHOMSKY: DOMINATION CONSCIOUS APOLOGISTS SPIN LIBERATION RHETORIC BUT IMPOSE DAMERICA’S COMMERCIAL-IMPERIAL STRUCTURE ON IRAQ
Chomsky wrote that the U.S. invasion of Iraq was sold to Americans as liberation, but U.S. power had long helped structure the region for strategic control. Chompski noted that Iraq’s modern borders were built through imperial arrangements tied to oil and dependency. Dominators create dependency, then call domination “order.”
HARMAN: CAPITALISM TURNS CRISIS INTO WAR
Harman’s framework helps explain Iraq as systemic rather than accidental. Capitalism repeatedly fuses state power, corporate interest, and military expansion. War becomes a tool for opening markets, securing resources, disciplining regions, and generating contracts.
NINMAH’S COUNTER TO CHENEY’S AND SADDAM’S DOMINATOR DEMENTIA: COOPERATIVE, PARTNERSHIP CONSCIOUSNESS
Against Domination Dementia, Ninmah/The Great Anunnaki Goddess represents preservation, repair, relationship, mothering, negotiation, and life-centered intelligence. She tells us that security does not come from conquest. It comes from food, water, dignity, sovereignty, and mutual restraint.
IRAQ 2003 & IRAN 2026: SAME SCRIPT, NEW TARGET
The Iraq script: terrifying weapons claim, demonized leader, oil/geostrategic stakes, media obedience, civilian suffering. The Iran confrontation likewise centers nuclear claims, regional dominance, oil transit, Strait of Hormuz pressure, and U.S./Israeli military escalation. Current reporting says U.S.-Iran tensions remain focused on ceasefire terms, nuclear demands, missiles, sanctions, and the Strait of Hormuz.
Iraq taught the empire that WMD stories move the public. Iran tests whether the public remembers.
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DID U. S. VEEP CHENEY CREATE THE 911 DEMISE OF NEW YORK’S TWIN TOWERS & NEARBY CIA DEPOSITORY SO HE COULD GRAB IRAQ’S OIL AND EMPLOY HIS PRIVATE SECURITY FIRM TO POLICE IRAQ?
Marrs discredits the official story about 9/11. That is the sobering conclusion reached by millions of Americans, all across the political spectrum, who have sifted through the evidence uncovered by hundreds of independent researchers. Many honest citizens are now forced, with sadness and reluctance, to make an almost unthinkable inference: Powerful US officials must have had foreknowledge of the planned attacks, and then acted from the inside to: thwart efforts to prevent 9/11, remove or cover up criminal evidence, and hamper inquiries into what happened.
