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[Iraq Inquiry Digest] It is telling that at the Chilcot inquiry into the UKs involvement in Iraq, no fewer than 31 generals of two star rank or above gave evidence, that figure in itself an explanation of why the mission failed.
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[Iraq Inquiry Digest] Hague slaps the Deputy National Security ... - Iraq Inquiry Digest: The trouble for both Hague and the Inquiry is that many of the officials who are implicated in what Hague says went wrong over Iraq are now in senior positions in the government’s national security structure. Peter Ricketts is the current national security adviser and Julian Miller his deputy.
[Dirty Celebrities] Dirty Celebrities » Blog Archive » UK inquiry: Iraq citizen's death ...: The UK announced the public inquiry in 2008 after the nine other Iraqis alleged torture at the hands of British troops and sued the MOD for damages. Charges were dropped in 2007 against six British soldiers accused of involvement with Mousa’s death, but one accused soldier, Corporal David Payne, pleaded guilty in 2006 to a charge of inhumane treatment, becoming the first British soldier to admit commission of a war crime in Iraq.
[Politics & Society] The Iraq War Inquiry: A Guide to the 2009/2010 British Investigation ...: Early on in the Inquiry, questions were asked about the development of the United Kingdom's policy towards Iraq from 2001 to 2003, as well as the relations between the UK and America. There has also been a lot of focus on the intelligence which suggested Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi dictator, was in possession of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs), which was one of the reasons cited for the invasion.
[Iraq] The UK Iraq War Inquiry: The Role of the British Government is ...: Greenstock explained that he called for an international agreement because without a UN resolution, the war waged by the U.S. and backed by the UK would lack legitimacy. However, by the time the UN Security Council readmitted the WMD inspectors in Iraq for further investigation, the U.S. military was already prepared for war.
[Iraq Inquiry Digest] The need for clarity » Iraq Inquiry Digest: A number of threads from previous posts on the Digest need pulling together to get a clear picture of how Tony Blair persuaded his attorney general, his Cabinet and Parliament to back war against Iraq on the basis of intelligence in spite of the failure of UN inspectors to find Saddam’s alleged WMD and Saddam’s failure to obstruct or expel them, as Hans Blix has recently pointed out.
[Juliesthinktank.wordpress.com] Iraq war has become synonymous with a man whose achievements ...: The continued harassment Blair has endured in the hands of the press in Britain has now become tasteless in the minds of newspaper readers who have become accustomed to see a story or two about him on the front or inner pages of newspapers nearly every week. The Telegraphs latest attempt to smear him has only ended up chipping into the credibility of this media house I once had respect and admiration for.
[Suite101: British/UK Affairs Articles] Blair's Decision on Iraq: Tony Blair's Reasons Examined at Chilcot ...: Previous inquiries concerning Iraq, the Hutton in July 2003 regarding the death of former UN weapons inspector Dr. David Kelly and the Butler Review July 2004, looking at the inconsistencies in intelligence relating to WMD did not deal directly with the legitimacy of the decision to go to war or whether parliament was deliberately misled on the scale of the threat posed by Iraq.
[Knights Party Veterans League] Iraq: Panetta's Immunity Request Not Protection from ICC: But, even if Panettas negotiating ploy is successful, anti-American factions in Iraq led by the Sadrists may seek prosecutions before the ICC (International Criminal Court). What Panetta isnt taking into account is the groups that have been conducting covert investigations of the use of “special weapons” by the US in Iraq.
[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.
[Guy Fawkes' blog] BREAKING: GOD to Quit, Job Split - Guy Fawkes' blog: Is that the Guy that we didn’t VOTE for Who basically told the IRAQ enquiry to go and F–k themselves over the communications between the WAR mongers Bliar and Bush. Or the Unelected Guy who told Broon that he could NOT investigate Murdoch Empire.
[Cynthia Yildirim's blog] UK troops guilty of 'gratuitous violence' against civilians in Iraq ...: The brutal death of an Iraqi man held by British soldiers months after the U.S.-led invasion of the country was an "appalling episode of serious gratuitous violence" and partly a result of the U.K.'s failure to properly train troops on interrogation techniques, a report said Thursday.
[lukesmolinski] Baroness Manningham-Buller: one of my great heroines ...: When Eliza Manningham-Buller was asked at the Iraq Inquiry what she thought of this indirect threat – in the questioner’s words, “the theory that at some point in the future, [Saddam] would probably have brought together international terrorism and WMDs in a threat to Western interests”
[Philiphunt1066's Blog] The damning of Tony Blair: Former PM to be held to account on Iraq ...: The inquiry heard how Major-General Tim Cross, a senior British officer, asked Mr Blair to delay the invasion of Iraq two days before the conflict, partly because planning for afterwards was ”woefully thin.
[Centurean2's Weblog] Israel's voice on Britain's Iraq Inquiry accuses critics of anti ...: The ambassador’s comments and the attention paid to them by The Times may be helpful in the long run, if only by drawing attention to the Israeli dimension in the Anglo-US invasion of Iraq in 2003, a dimension that hitherto has scarcely been mentioned. Yet it is a fact that the campaign to overthrow Saddam Hussein was initiated, well before 9/11, by a group of influential American neo-cons, notably Perle, Feith and Wolfowitz (once described by Time magazine as “the godfather of the Iraq war”) nearly all of whom were ardent Zionists, in many cases more concerned with preserving the security of Israel than that of the US.
[Dark Politricks] Iraq: Panetta's Immunity Request Not Protection from ICC | Dark ...: When the money dries up and America’s prestige dries up with it, pushed forward every so much more quickly by our lonely position on the wrong side of so many issues, siding with Israel while they have the worst government in their short history, entire continents will become “no fly zones”
[My Elgg site: buladoo4p3w's blog] My Elgg site: buladoo4p3w's blog: Shox ugg ultimate short things: But with the deployment now winding down, people like Conservative leader David Cameron are urging Mr. Brown to open an inquiry into why Britain went to war in the first place and its role in Iraq through the years."What we .
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