In 2003 and 2004, Pilger criticised United States President George W. Bush, saying that he had used the &lt;a href="September%2011%20attacks"&gt;9/11 terrorist attacks&lt;/a&gt; as an excuse to invade Iraq as part of a strategy to increase US control of the world's oil supplies. In 2004, Pilger criticised British Prime Minister Tony Blair as equally responsible for the invasion and the bungled occupation of Iraq. In 2004, as the Iraq insurgency increased, Pilger wrote that the anti-war movement should support "Iraq's anti-occupation resistance: