[…] a whole generation of former lefts, lumping them together as ‘fallen liberals’. (3)Is there really no difference between someone like Nick Cohen (who supported the war in Iraq for what might be called principled reasons) and people like David Aaronovitch and Stuart Hall (who began life as Stalinist reactionaries) and Peter Hitchens (who went […]
[…] that it was Jellicoe who was the ‘risk’, resigning in 1973 when found to be, as they used to say, consorting with prostitutes. Tell me lies about Iraq The Iraq thing is about oil. If Iraq had no oil the US would not be interested. The US is going to buy or steal – […]
[…] each country, seeks to promote the UK’s reputation throughout the region by building people-to-people relationships.’ (7) Presumably the ‘British Council’ will soon be reopening its office in Iraq. I would bet they even have an idea of the day, month and year (and that was before Saddam Hussein decided to back the Euro). Washington […]
[…] much has been learnt from history. With the Cold War over, and with a far less capable opponent, it may have seemed today as if war on Iraq would be an open and shut case without all the attendant risks the US faced in 1964. But what has really changed? One of the lessons […]
[…] is a wonderful thing. After the invasion of Poland, Suez, the intervention of the IMF in the 1970s, the arrival of Maggie Thatcher, the Falklands War, the Iraq War, there are always those who see an inevitability that may never have been there in the first place. So it is with the current problems […]
[…] 45, 47) came up in connection with the forged Niger uranium documents cited by both the US and UK governments in the build-up to the war on Iraq. By coincidence Ledeen was much involved on the first occasion the late Pope came to wide public attention in May 1981. Soon after the election of […]
Iraqi documents Iraq on the Record () is a searchable collection of over 200 specific misleading statements made by Bush administration officials about the threat allegedly posed by Iraq. The collection would be even larger if it also included statements that appear mistaken only in hindsight. However, if a statement was ‘…an accurate […]
[…] war crimes, where such crimes are committed by a national or on a territory of a govt that has ratified the court’s treaty (neither the US not Iraq are among the 81 govts that have ratified the treaty so far) and will only act when national courts are unable or unwilling to investigate or […]
[…] often portrayed as a post 9/11 development, the Agency’s involvement in torture dates back to its foundation. Given this history, the CIA’s involvement in torture in Afghanistan, Iraq and in the ‘war on terror’ more generally should not come as a surprise to anyone. It would have been astonishing were it not involved in […]
[…] August 1990, and in the run-up to the war itself, which commenced on 16 January 1991, there was considerable concern over possible use of chemical weapons by Iraq against coalition forces. A number of western political sources hinted at a nuclear response to any substantial Iraqi CW use, and it was widely assumed that […]
