The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] John Ward recently on his excellent blog The Slog.90 Dodgy dossier 2 Well, here we are in the blood and chaos caused by the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq, ‘justified’ by the ‘dodgy dossier’ prepared for Mr Blair by his allies within the UK intelligence agencies, and what has Whitehall done? Created another ‘dodgy dossier’ […]

NIck on Macintyre

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[…] rebellion among the Arabs of neighboring Khuzestan an easy and cheap way to undermine the ayatollah and destabilize Iran’; that ‘Bands of Iranian Arabs were trained in Iraq, armed, and sent back across the border’; and ‘These Arab guerrillas saw themselves as fighters for independence, but they were dependent on Saddam Hussein, pawns cynically […]

President Putin and Sochi 2014 PR

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[PDF file]: […] principally as a result of the actions over a decade ago of ‘Crusader’ President Bush and his sidekick Prime Minister Blair (the immoral and illegal invasion of Iraq), the domino effect still in progress (now in Syria), has led to the decimation throughout the region of all ancient Middle Eastern Christian communities. This Christian […]

Not the Chilcot Report by Peter Oborne

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[PDF file]: […] a wider failure. Though there were shining exceptions, the mainstream media as a whole failed to tell truth to power in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. It should always be taken into account that it was not only politicians and officials who failed in their duty.’ Self-criticism usually gives weight to that […]

View from the bridge

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[…] Tancock’s ‘Secret Justice: Public Interest Immunity Certificates (PIICs) and their use in the Asil Nadir trials’ 4 and Andrew Rosthorn’s ‘Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to- Iraq conspiracy?’.5 See for example, and or . 1 2 3 or 4 or 5 1 *new* Strewth . . . Most parapolitical research has been done […]

Holding pattern

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[PDF file]: […] on the implications of the Brussels bombings. ‘The officials,’ we learned, included ‘European and Iraqi intelligence officials and a French lawmaker’ who variously ‘described camps in Syria, Iraq and possibly the former Soviet bloc where attackers are trained to target the West.’ 18 ‘And possibly’ seems a very generous way of putting an insinuation […]

Reporting Trump

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[PDF file]: […] the legislation is named after – John McCain’. This snub became the story, not the massive increase in military spending that even ‘eclipsed the peak of annual Iraq War spending’. It ‘was picked up by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, ABC, The Hill, CNN, CBS, the AP, and others’. (p. 79) […]

What if…

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[PDF file]: […] came to the use of force in a dangerous and faraway theatre…. George wobbled. One by one the Gulf states decided it was safer to deal with Iraq than to defy it and at the Treaty of Baghdad in 1992 agreed to raise oil prices to pay for a programme of Islamic industrialisation. Prime […]

The Man Who Played With Fire, and, The Man in the Brown Suit

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[PDF file]: […] the highest in the industrialised west. Palme was active, too, on the international stage into the 1980s, serving at one point as a mediator in the Iran- Iraq war, without success. External admirers of Sweden are usually unaware that, relative to its population, under both Erlander and Palme the country maintained a very large […]

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