The Crime Committed in Our Name
Saddam Hussien’s WMD were a hollow threat that the Anglo-American leadership cynically exploited. According to one senior CIA analyst: “It was 95 per cent charade. And they all knew it: Bush, Blair, Howard.”
Saddam Hussien’s WMD were a hollow threat that the Anglo-American leadership cynically exploited. According to one senior CIA analyst: “It was 95 per cent charade. And they all knew it: Bush, Blair, Howard.”
In the wake of the Hutton fiasco, one truth remains evident: Tony Blair ordered an unprovoked invasion of another country on a totally false pretext, and that lies and deceptions from London and Washington caused the deaths of up to 55,000 Iraqis
Forget the Hutton Inquiry into the death of Dr Kelly, writes John Pilger. It will not reveal what the US and UK authorities really don’t want you to know: that radiation illnesses caused by uranium weapons are now common in Iraq
Blair must know his game is over. Bush’s reception in Britain demonstrated that; and the CIA has now announced that the Iraqi resistance is “broad, strong and getting stronger”
Not before time, it is beginning to dawn on many that they helped install a leader who is a bloody warmonger. In less than five years, Blair has embarked on 4 military campaigns, against countries that posed no real threat to Britain
The Hutton inquiry is Blair’s best trick so far. For an inquiry into the death of one man, ensures that real questions as to why Blair took Britain into war in the first place, are never asked
Tony Blair shares responsibility for causing violent death and suffering on a vast scale. Meanwhile, the Hutton inquiry into the circumstances leading to Dr Kelly’s death, is already turning into an exercise in spin
America’s two “great victories” since 11 September 2001 are unravelling. Comparisons with Vietnam have been made so often over the years that I hesitate to draw another. However, the similarities are striking