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Showing posts with label iraq invasion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iraq invasion. Show all posts

Thursday, January 07, 2010

The Chilcot Inquiry: Britain’s 9/11 Commission


All too often, official inquiries are conducted by the very people who should themselves be under investigation.

In this respect, Britain’s Chilcot Inquiry on the Iraq war bears a distressing similarity to the 9/11 Commission.

In a remarkable symmetry, both inquiries involve a Jewish Zionist historian, who not only advised his country’s leader to go to war against Iraq, but actually provided the ideological justification for that unnecessary war.'

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Thursday, December 17, 2009

War Crime Case Against Tony Blair Now Rock-Solid


Tony Blair's extraordinary admission on Sunday to the BBC's Fern Britton - that he would have gone to war to topple Saddam Hussein regardless of the issue of Iraq's alleged WMDs - is sure to give fresh impetus to moves to prosecute our former prime minister for war crimes.

The case against Blair, strong enough before this latest comment, now appears rock solid. Going to war to change another country's regime is prohibited by international law, while the Nuremburg judgment of 1946 laid down that "to initiate a war of aggression", as Blair and Bush clearly did against Iraq, "is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole".'

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Saturday, December 12, 2009

War Criminal Blair Defends Iraq's Invasion Even Without WMDs


Tony Blair says that Britain would have backed invading Iraq, even if it had been known that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

Former British premier, Blair, who is to appear before a long-awaited official Iraq war inquiry early next year, said London would have used other ways to justify its support for the 2003 US-led war to oust Saddam.'

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