Iraq Reviews: Plamegate a front in the war over Iraq justification

Iraq Reviews > Plamegate a front in the war over Iraq justification

[The Online Magazine formerly known as Rob's Blog] The legal and political stakes are of the highest order, but the investigation into the disclosure of a covert C.I.A. officer's identity is also just one skirmish in the continuing battle over the Bush administration's justification for the war in Iraq.

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[Garfield Ridge] A Big Goof In The Syria Investigation.: and imitating the example of President Bush. If only we had never gone to war in Iraq, all these peaceful nations in the world, they never would have felt justified in committing violence and aggression against others and their own people.

[Messopotamian.blogspot.com] THE MESOPOTAMIAN: The Wahabis committed many atrocities particularly against the Iraqi Shiaa, when hordes used to raid Najaf and other Shiaa holy cities frequently and murder thousands of pilgrims and residents, and that was long before any western powers appeared in the region. The Al-Saud family had a very special relationship with this movement.

[Blog.zmag.org] ZNet Blog: Here (below) is an exchange that may or may not interest this blog’s readers. It was sparked by the recent Howard Zinn interview on Tomdispatch and ZNet....

[Juancole.com] Informed Comment: A top secret British memorandum dated 23 July 2002 was leaked in the run-up to yesterday's parliamentary elections in the UK (which Blair won, though his Labour Party was much weakened by public disgust with such shenanigans as the below). I mirror the memo below, from the Times Online site.

[Washingtonpost.com] Iraqis Vote on Constitution: We still don't know who in the Bush administration attended the meetings that gave the British intelligence chief the impression that the administration was seeking to "fix" the intelligence to suit the policy of going to war.

[Powerlineblog.com] Power Line: Weekly Standard online editor Jonathan Last takes a look back at the decline of the British empire through the turn of the British elite from support of King and country to pacifism and the Oxford oath: "Rule America?" (I respectfully disagree with Jonathan's shot at President Bush in the column.) Professor David Gelernter complements Last's column with a scorching "History lesson."