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[Rebel Newsflash] Blair faces Iraq war inquiry: An independent panel of inquiry is to delve into Blair's controversial decision to follow a US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, dragging a large contingent of UK troops into the Middle Eastern country, in order to overthrow the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein on grounds of his alleged Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) threats.

[Tony Blair] Alastair Campbell - “Mistake if Tony does not get the job!” « Tony ...: Blair's former spin doctor Alastair Campbell .Campbell: If we knew no WMDs would be found, we would have stayed there much longer than planned and the situation would still be relatively unstable, the decision could have been different.

[Iraq Inquiry Digest] Ask Blair early on » Iraq Inquiry Digest: I do think that the Inquiry could potentially save a lot of time if it challenged Blair at an early stage on the mass of evidence that suggests he agreed early on to go support any US-led invasion and subsequently built a case around weapons of mass destruction. One way or another, Blair may end up justifying the war, as others have done, on the grounds that it is a given of UK foreign policy that we must be as close as possible to the US.

[Nick Robinson's Newslog] BBC - Nick Robinson's Newslog: Gordon Brown and the military: The military action to oust the Taliban in 2001/02 was justified by the attacks of September 11th in the US, and the fact that most, if not all, of the internal threats to the UK by Islamist extremists have their roots in Afghanistan. That action was a success, and if we had invested our time and resources in developing the country, instead of running off on the fool's errand to Iraq, we would most probably have been out of there by now.

[News] Labour's worst crime wasn't Iraq - it was welfare - Telegraph Blogs: The Bush Administration’s candidate to initially run the place was Chalabi (an Iraqi dissident in exile in the U.S., highly respected by the Shia community) who was torpedoed by elements within the CIA (who claimed he had too many ties to Iran – perhaps rightfully, perhaps wrongfully.) I don’t know how it would have worked out had Chalabi been put in charge, or had we shot the looters and acted more like an occupying force immediately.

[Dissident Voice] Dissident Voice : The BBC's Jeremy Paxman On Iraq ”” “We Were ...: Next time I see a presentation from the American State Department, or the CIA, about, I don’t know, Iran’s nuclear weapons programme, I shall look on it differently to the way that I looked upon their presentation of the so-called presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. At the time I did not have…

[Iraq Inquiry Digest] David Blunkett on the Iraq Inquiry and the war » Iraq Inquiry Digest: “The second issue which I hope the Inquiry will be able to shed light on and which I think will be really important is what happened after the three and a half weeks of the initial incursion because it wasn’t that initial incursion that resulted in substantial loss of life or in the trauma of the collapse and the destructuring of the Iraq state , it was what happened in the year to eighteen months afterward and I think there are some very big questions to be answered about that and the decisions taken by Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney .The kind of power they exercised in deconstructing civil and policing operations in Iraq which led to the increased insurgency which is only now being gripped and restored to some kind of common sense.”

[sciencestage.com] Prosecuting leaders for war crimes - Blair, bliar, WMD, illegal ...: www.makewarshistory.org.uk Chris Coverdale explains why as a UK citizen you are committing a criminal offence by paying tax! (full lecture here video.google.com He also explains how we can remedy this situation and bring those resonsible for the illegal wars to account.

[Iraq Inquiry Digest] Trust in democracy » Iraq Inquiry Digest: For many people these previous inquiries were unsatisfactory because they came to no clear conclusion about the key question: in March 2003 the UK Government had said that the evidence was conclusive that Iraq had wmd, yet in fact there were none. The Butler Report hinted at concerns about “sofa government” and revealed that the UK had not formally reviewed the wmd intelligence between October 2002 and the invasion, even though UN weapons inspections had undermined the assertions made in the September 2002 dossier.

[Monbiot.com] Monbiot.com » Arresting Blair: To stimulate this process, I will put up the first £100 of a bounty (to which, if he gets the job, I will ask readers to subscribe) payable to the first person to attempt a non-violent arrest of President Blair. It shouldn’t be hard to raise several thousand pounds.

[The Money Blog | Personal Investor Edition | Citywire] Should Tony Blair get the top job in Europe? | Personal Investor ...: Blair is a greedy, grabbing (£10m/yr he apparently 'earns'), lying ('Iraq has WMD that can be launched at a minutes notice') so-and-so (I could say much worse) that, along with Brown was responsible for wrecking just about every aspect of our society. He should be in the dock for an illegal invasion of Iraq, for the loss of so many British soldiers lives, and thousands of innocent civilians, and for crippling the British economy, never mind being considered for the post of president of the EU!

[Iraq Inquiry Digest] A view from the Irish Senate » Iraq Inquiry Digest: The purpose of the inquiry is to consider the UK’s involvement in Iraq, including the way decisions were made and actions taken. It has appointed Dame Rosalyn Higgins, one of the most renowned experts on international law as an adviser, in what is viewed as an indication that the Blair government’s legal justification for the invasion is to come under serious scrutiny.

[Richard Heller] Richard Heller :: Memo to the Iraq Inquiry: Did Blair KNOW Saddam ...: It is essential that the Iraq Inquiry investigates the remarkable story told by Ron Suskind in his book THE WAY OF THE WORLD, which suggests that MI6 and Tony Blair knew BEFORE the war that Saddam had NO WMD. If true, this puts a totally new construction on Blair's behaviour (ie it means that he knowingly and deliberately lied).

[Centurean2's Weblog] “Taliban Will Come Here ” “WMDs Iraq” “Concentration Camps” Serbs ...: THE TORIES WERE IN POWER AT THIS TIME- THE WAR THEN CARRIED ON UNDER THE FABIAN GOVERNMENT OF BLAIR- WHEN WE ARE FED A DIET OF LIES ON REASONS FOR WARS- WMDs-TALIBAN COMING HERE- CONCENTRATION CAMPS AKIN TO NAZI GERMANY- WE SHOULD BE ASKING WHO THE FUCK ARE THESE BASTARDS IN WESTMINSTER WORKING FOR?

[Political Punch] A Look at the President's Meetings on Afghanistan and Pakistan ...: Tomorrow President Obama will sit down for his eighth strategy meeting on Afghanistan and Pakistan. Over the course of the past two months the President has met with different combinations of his National Security team to decide on a new strategy going forward in the region.

[John Rentoul] John Rentoul - "Stop hating Tony Blair": liamvirgil thinks people hate Blair because the invasion of Iraq involved the killing of tens of thousands of innocent civilians. Not so, it's because people like him and the feral beasts of the media have twisted the story to lay the blame for those deaths on Blair rather than on the true culprits, the murderous militants who direct their weapons at the softest of targets (market places, mosques, hospitals etc) which are almost impossible to defend.

[Mail Online - Peter Hitchens] The fake threat from Afghanistan, and do eagles really drop ...: Firstly, despite your clear chauvinism for the Christian faith, you do not like to admit that so much of the hatred and murder that takes place in our world, past and present, is caused by, or carried out in the name of religious faith. As a Christian, you should be acutely aware of the fact that the followers of your religion sowed the seeds of Islamic hatred of the West a thousand years ago with the Crusades.

[Spectator Live] Even under the Tories, President Blair will be our man in Brussels ...: The role of Il Presidente is not yet defined yet already Blair is negotiating for a '..big role..' in a way he never did as PM, when he consistently pursued his policy of pusillanimous appeasement with the UK's enemies, such as the IRA, and against its best interests, witness the EU rebate giveaway. Dissembling, criminally bloody handed in Iraq and politically septic, his appointment would secure new depths of contempt for Britain on the world stage opponents, as the arch personification of a morally and intellectually bankrupt Europe.

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