[PDF file]: […] Ronald Reagan, but is much more relaxed about Blair’s relationship with George W. Bush, a relationship that was sealed in a great deal of blood. The disastrous Iraq war that dominated the Blair years shamefully gets less than a page of text and the lies that were told to inveigle us into the conflict […]
[PDF file]: […] the revolving door comes in handy. A notable past Vice President of Booz Allen Hamilton was James Woolsey, former director of the CIA and cheerleader for the Iraq war – which, incidentally, became one of the most rewarding boondoggles of the 21st Century.46 Along with the intelligence community, defence will be the other U.K. […]
[PDF file]: […] a markedly more radical and consistent view of the world than those of his predecessor – one of the columnists for conflict at the time of the Iraq War – and lifted by his 2011 book Chavs. Following David Aaronovitch’s route to The Guardian, Jones does not seem likely to emulate the reactionary trajectory […]
[…] the revolving door comes in handy. A notable past Vice President of Booz Allen Hamilton was James Woolsey, former director of the CIA and cheerleader for the Iraq war – which, incidentally, became one of the most rewarding boondoggles of the 21st Century.46 Along with the intelligence community, defence will be the other U.K. […]
[PDF file]: […] by Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (known as the ‘Mad Mullah’ by the British) in Somalia was considered a great success. The British made use of aerial bombardment in Iraq, Egypt, Russia and the Sudan, and even considered making use of it against any revolutionary outbreaks in Britain itself. It was not just deployed against insurgents, […]
[PDF file]: […] be US allies in the region)? They are the last people anyone from the US government would seek to implicate. If you wanted a pretext to attack Iraq, Iran, Libya or Syria, the false flag would be accompanied by links to one (or several) of those countries, not Saudi Arabia.25 This scenario is absurd. […]
[PDF file]: […] Labour leader on a local council miles away making a bit of cash-in-hand, focus group money. He told me afterwards, contrary to his expressed views on the Iraq war at the group, that he’d met Tony Blair at a Labour Friends of Israel bash and wouldn’t have a word said against him. But setting […]
[PDF file]: […] value, though, if other nations agreed to abide by them. The US quickly showed it had zero interest in the Blair Doctrine when planning its attack on Iraq. It also turned out that Blair didn’t have much interest in it either. Despite France and Germany urging compliance with ongoing UN initiatives, all other options […]
[PDF file]: […] the same is true of all UN treaties (think of Israel’s decades-long violation of the Geneva Conventions in occupied Palestine, or Britain and America’s illegal invasion of Iraq in violation of the UN Charter, or the social security cuts across Europe in flagrant violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ad infinitum). Sadly, […]
[PDF file]: […] his Dreaming War (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2002). 5 Described in Thomas E. Mahl’s Desperate Deception (Virginia : Brassey’s, 1999). 4 6 preceding the assault on Iraq, may turn out to be the most important diplomatic revelation of that atrocity.4 This is letting the cat out of the bag with a vengeance. But […]
