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[Iraq Inquiry Digest] Iraq Revisited - in Australia » Iraq Inquiry Digest: For example the Defence Intelligence Organisation advised the Howard government in December 2002 that on Iraqi biological weapons “There has been no known defensive research and development since 1991, no known biological weapons production since 1991 and no known biological weapons testing or evaluation since 1991”. DIO did incorrectly assess that there might have been some old pre-1991 biological and chemical stocks but even then it qualified its statements that, given the passage of time, these weapons were of doubtful utility.

[Sabbah Report] Nailing the Iraq Lie | Sabbah Report: While individuals like Ken Macdonald, whose conscience hasn't gone to sleep, have blasted the former premier for his lies, deception and sucking up to Bush, there are more revelations from those close to the former prime minister that the Atlantic allies were indeed determined to attack Iraq, WMD or no WMD. This is what anti-war groups, human rights activists and majority of peace-loving people around the world have been saying all along.

[Newsweek Blogs] British Iraq Inquiry Likely to Seek Testimony from U.S. Witnesses ...: But some of the testimony it has elicited is quite revealing””particularly in comparison with the kind of information produced by patchy official U.S. investigations into the Iraq War. U.S. inquiries to date never produced public testimony by Bush, former vice president Dick Cheney, or other senior war planners like Pentagon policy gurus Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith, or top U.S. diplomats like Colin Powell and Richard Armitage.

[CJO's Avenger212] CJO's Avenger212 » Blog Archive » The Chilcot Inquiry - Heard of It?: We will therefore be considering the UK’s involvement in Iraq, including the way decisions were made and actions taken, to establish, as accurately as possible, what happened and to identify the lessons that can be learned. Those lessons will help ensure that, if we face similar situations in future, the government of the day is best equipped to respond to those situations in the most effective manner in the best interests of the country.”

[Truth is Contagious] Now Blair's key Iraq war aides desert him: Spy chief and top envoy ...: The head of MI6 and Britain’s top diplomat yesterday refused to back Tony Blair’s assertion that the war in Iraq was worth the human and financial cost.

[Cedric's Big Mix] "Iraq snapshot" (The Common Ills) « Cedric's Big Mix: Next month, Blair will go before the Chilcot Inquiry, a panel of UK Establishment worthies charged with investigating the origins of Britain's role in the invasion of Iraq. Although the worthies have been remarkably toothless in their questioning of the great and good so far – the smell of whitewash is definitely in the air – the inquiry has at least performed the useful function of bringing the forgotten subject of Iraq back into the public eye, while collating and confirming, with sworn testimony, much of what we have learned in dribs and drabs over the years about the rank, deliberate deceit behind this murderous catastrophe.

[Booman Tribune] Booman Tribune ~ A Progressive Community: The third one by itself, as I think I said earlier, is a reason to help the Iraqis but it's not a reason to put American kids' lives at risk, certainly not on the scale we did it. That second issue about links to terrorism is the one about which there's the most disagreement within the bureaucracy, even though I think everyone agrees that we killed 100 or so of an al Qaeda group in northern Iraq in this recent go-around, that we've arrested that al Qaeda guy in Baghdad who was connected to this guy Zarqawi whom Powell spoke about in his UN presentation.

[Your Democracy - democracy is not a spectator sport] the evil self-righteous ..... | Your Democracy: Although the worthies have been remarkably toothless in their questioning of the great and good so far - the smell of whitewash is definitely in the air - the inquiry has at least performed the useful function of bringing the forgotten subject of Iraq back into the public eye, while collating and confirming, with sworn testimony, much of what we have learned in dribs and drabs over the years about the rank, deliberate deceit behind this murderous catastrophe. One choice bit that has emerged from the inquiry is the revelation that the centerpiece of Blair's case for immediate war - the claim that Saddam Hussein could hit Europe with WMD-loaded missiles on just 45 minutes' notice - came from unconfirmed, third-hand gossip passed along by an Iraqi taxi driver.

[The Common Ills] Iraq snapshot « The Common Ills: The Presidency Council does not know what is happening, and we do not have the capabilities that will allow us to find out what is happening or whether the official in charge of the security file had learnt from previous lessons and saved Iraqi lives. I hope that Iraqi Prime Minister and commander-in-chief (Nouri al-Maliki), who is exclusively responsible for this security file, is fair and courageous and shoulders the responsibility and gives justice to all the lives lost and blood shed by saying that the security challenges are greater than his ability, and that he admits default and failure, and hands the security file to professional security experts.

[Gulag Blog] Now Blair's key Iraq war aides desert him: Spy chief and top envoy ...: Gulag Blog · Home · Log in · Subscribe RSS Feed · Now Blair's key Iraq war aides desert him: Spy chief and top envoy tell inquiry of their doubts. TIM SHIPMAN Daily Mail December 16, 2009.

[Cedric's Big Mix] They called him Soetoro « Cedric's Big Mix: Coming back to best case scenarios, Chairman, it was very clear to me, even before I got to Baghdad, that the United States had been working on and continued to work on the best case scenario: that they could administer Iraq and turn it back to Iraqis who could administer Iraq, with the lowest possible input of resources and troops and in the most direct way possible. And they didn't insure against things other than the best case scenario, with a higher number of troops or with alternative political plans.

[The Survival Station] The Survival Station - Now Blair's key Iraq war aides desert him ...: In testimony to the Chilcot Inquiry, spymaster Sir John Sawers and Sir Nigel Sheinwald, Britain’s ambassador in Washington, both admitted they now agonise over whether the UK should have joined the invasion.

[Close Protection Forum and Surveillance Forum] Uk official iraq war inquiry begins: Chilcot served on the Butler Inquiry into HMG's use of intelligence in the build-up to the Iraq War, and his chairmanship of the current inquiry is like "trying the same crime twice with the same judge and jury -- not a credible standard for truth-seeking", according to Carne Ross, the UK's former Iraq expert at the UN who resigned from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 2004 after giving evidence to the Butler Inquiry. In the 15 November "Observer", Ross wrote that he believes the inquiry will fail to produce a true account of how and why Britain opted to join the US in taking military action "because it suffers from an insidious intent"

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