[…] politicised as that of the United States national security structure’.11 And the review suggests his new book is a variation on the same theme: the invasion of Iraq by the US (and its gophers, like the UK) was just a mistake caused by the US and Saddam Hussein not understanding each other. Having thus […]
[…] politicised as that of the United States national security structure’.11 And the review suggests his new book is a variation on the same theme: the invasion of Iraq by the US (and its gophers, like the UK) was just a mistake caused by the US and Saddam Hussein not understanding each other. Having thus […]
[PDF file]: […] itself as “one of the world’s largest providers of products and services to the energy industry.”) When viewed in the context of the US/ NATO wars in Iraq and Kuwait (The Gulf War: 1990-1991), Kosovo (1999), Afghanistan (2001–present), and Iraq (2003–2011), one could even conclude that the grand vision of Cheney and others in […]
[PDF file]: […] American foreign policy. Thus the state which is apparently agitated about the use of ‘chemical weapons’ in Syria used depleted uranium and phosphorous in their assault on Iraq, drenched much of Vietnam and bits of Laos and Cambodia in Agent Orange, and – lest we forget – recruited the Japanese 35 I discussed this […]
[PDF file]: […] 9 See . 3 intelligence thereafter remained central to the development of neoconservatism at every major turning point from Team B to Iran-Contra to the War on Iraq.’ That last sentence says in polite academic terms what I would put this way: false intelligence was critical to the recreation of the Soviet ‘threat’. When […]
[PDF file]: […] Labour Party’s actual history in office; but that is another matter. Which brings us to Blair’s wars. How does Brown deal with British involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq, fighting in the service of the American Empire? In his memoir, Brown remembers how on 11 September 2001 he had ‘cried at the carnage inflicted on […]
[…] in Afghanistan has given the British Army a raison d’être it has lacked for many years, and new 11 For details see the case of Fallujah in Iraq discussed at 12 The joke has it that a political gaff is a politician telling the truth. 13 LVO = Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order. […]
[PDF file]: […] admiration for brutal authoritarian crackdowns in North Korea and Tiananmen Square. He accused George W Bush of the treasonous offense of deliberately lying the country into the Iraq War. He habitually lied about his own position on the Iraq War. He was dismissive of key post-World War II alliances and international organizations. He was […]
[…] fantasies of restoring Russia to the status it had during the Cold War. All our yesterdays ‘George W. Bush misrepresented our work at CIA to sell the Iraq invasion. It’s time to call him what he is: “A liar”’. That is the striking title of a piece on Businessinsider.46 In this, two former CIA […]
[…] fantasies of restoring Russia to the status it had during the Cold War. All our yesterdays ‘George W. Bush misrepresented our work at CIA to sell the Iraq invasion. It’s time to call him what he is: “A liar”’. That is the striking title of a piece on Businessinsider.46 In this, two former CIA […]
