TIMELINE (from BROKEN NATION)
1977: Salem Bin Laden invests in Arbusto Energy, Inc. owned by George W. Bush.
1980’s: Reagan/Bush Administration trains Osama Bin Laden and fellow terrorists to kill the Soviets. CIA gives them $3 billion.
1982: Reagan/Bush Administration provides billions in aid to Saddam Hussein for weapons to kill Iranians. Donald Rumsfeld presents Saddam with a pair of golden spurs as a gift.
1983: Reagan/Bush Administration gives Iran weapons to kill Iraqis.
1990: Iraq invades Kuwait with weapons from U.S.
1991: U.S. enters Iraq-Gulf War. Dictator is reinstated in Kuwait.
1991-99: U.S. planes bomb Iraq on a weekly basis. The U.N. estimates that over 500,000 Iraqi’s died from these bombings and sanctions.
1995: George W. Bush becomes Governor of Texas.
1995-2000: Dick Cheney is CEO of Halliburton, which during this period does business with Iraq, Libya, and Iran.
1996: Fox News is launched along with an attack campaign of Clinton.
1998: Florida uses electronic voting machines for the first time/ Jeb Bush becomes Governor.
2001: George W. Bush becomes president after the most controversial election in U.S. history.
2001: U.S. gives Taliban-ruled Afghanistan $245 million in aid, some of which is put towards their opium crops and later smuggled right back into the U.S.
September 11, 2001: Osama Bin Laden uses his CIA training.
2003-04: U.S. invades Iraq despite 9 years of bombings, no possible weapon-making capability, and no connections to Bin Laden. Saddam Hussein is removed from power. Over 2,500 Americans are killed. 100,000 civilians are killed. Civil war erupts in Iraq. U.S. national debt hits all time high. And well, you know the rest of the story.
