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The Chilcot Enquiry into the Origins of the Iraq War
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The Truth About the Iraq War Finalling Coming Out
Dated: December 4, 2009 at 18:10:17
Author: Noeline Clayfield
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The current Chilcot Enquiry in the UK is at last bringing out the truth about the illegal Iraq War. The fact long known by many that there was no justification for this war and that the agenda was completely different to that purported is confirmed by Christopher Story of World Reports in his Global Analysis of 3 December 2009.
I have been following these reports for some 4 years and have been amazed at the intrigues and criminality that goes on and is never reported in the press and mainstream media. Truly these reports alone could provide James Bond with scripting for the next millennia.
This article is based on this important report (also see “Archives” for further background) by Christopher Story, who supports all his information with documentation and qualified informers who have been known to him for many years. His credentials and testimonials can also be sourced on his website.
The Chilcot Enquiry testimony of many such as General Sir Michael Rose and also important documentation long suppressed by the Blair Government provided by Lord Goldsmith spells out the illegality of the war and its immorality long before the Blair Administration pushed the war before parliament without advising the public of its true agenda. This is fully detailed in the report.
Excerpt from World Reports Global Analysis, 3 December, 2009:
" On 30th November, George Pitcher, a columnist with The Daily Telegraph, wrote:
‘Tony Blair, with a truly toxic mixture of sanctimoniousness and wealth-enhancing chutzpah, has always maintained that his Iraq invasion was a just war. He has held firm to this shibboleth with trembling lip and quasi-religious conviction. But the letter to him from Lord Goldsmith, which emerged at the weekend, changes everything'. [Goldsmith was the Attorney General at the time].
‘Dated July 29, 2002, a full eight months before Blair launched his grotesque Middle Eastern misadventure, the then Attorney General wrote to tell him that such an invasion would be illegal under international law. It is in the bundle of documents at the Chilcot Inquiry, to be addressed when the former Prime Minister, abortive President of Europe and putative Middle East peace envoy, gives evidence to it in the New Year'.
Blair's line has always been that he was “guided” by the Attorney General. It turns out that this guidance was unequivocal and in writing from the outset, and was not what he wanted to hear.
Blair had to dispatch a couple of his heavies, in the shape of Lord Falconer and Baroness Morgan, verbally to duff up Lord Goldsmith and to bully him into toeing the line, so that Blair could honor his private pledge to follow George W. Bush into the valley of death'.
[Recall our repeated reminder that the ONLY product these people generate and have on offer is, precisely: DEATH (spiritual as well as physical)]". ‘Blair's actions were not only illegal, as now conclusively demonstrated by Lord Goldsmith's evidence: they were also immoral'.
THREE SUSPICIOUS BRITISH HORIZONTALISATIONS
And what about the sudden horizontalisations [assassinations] of Dr David Kelly and the former Blair Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, who died way before his time from a ‘sudden' heart attack, like Blair's predecessor as leader of the Labour Party, John Smith?
This ‘dirty linen' is inserted here just to remind ‘the interested' that these horizontalisations won't be brushed under the British Government's filthy dirty carpet, should by any chance it have been assumed that this has already been satisfactorily accomplished.
A RESPECTED BRITISH GENERAL FINGERS BLAIR, TOO
Nor is the aforementioned newspaper columnist alone in pointing fingers at Blair. On the contrary, Mr Pitcher's pointing finger has been joined by the right forefinger belonging to the distinguished General Sir Michael Rose, who has bluntly called for Tony Blair to be prosecuted for war crimes following the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq.
Writing in ‘The Mail on Sunday' on 30th November 2009, Sir Michael stated that the Chilcot Inquiry on the origins of the war should be the first step in a judicial process that brings those responsible for the disasters of the Iraq War before the Courts, ‘and could, as I shall explain, ultimately result in Tony Blair being indicted for war crimes'.
Sir Michael then reviewed the past week's evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry which proved that Mr. Blair lied blatantly to the House of Commons and the public about Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The article reconfirmed that the evidence spelled out how Mr Blair ‘AND OTHER SENIOR GOVERNMENT FIGURES' [our emphasis – Ed.] had been told that there were ‘no WMDs, no missiles, no atom bombs and that there was no legal basis to pursue a war against Iraq'.
‘Despite these compelling accounts of what happened, the truth is that we already know the main lessons of Iraq: Britain was taken unprepared into war on false grounds, and the inevitable result was the destruction of Iraq, enormous loss of life' [THE DEATH PRODUCT] ‘and continuing political turmoil in the Middle East. Worse, the Iraq War has radicalized Muslim opinion against the West throughout the world, even spawning terrorism on the streets of London', Sir Michael wrote.
The General elaborated that Britain has a tradition of holding its leaders to account when they lead the country into a disaster. He pointed out that when the British Army was defeated at Yorktown in 1781 at the end of the American War of Independence, the entire British Cabinet resigned. When Winston Churchill, who, as First Sea Lord, had been the main architect of the Empire's Gallipoli campaign against the Turks, saw the scale of the disaster that occurred in 1915, he immediately volunteered for the trenches in France where it is believed he hoped either to find death or to be able to redeem his honor.
[The Editor's father somehow survived the entire duration of the First World War in the trenches].
By contrast, General Sir Michael Rose added, Blair swans around the world today making millions from business contacts and lectures. And to make matters still worse, a large proportion of these earnings are only possible because of his US and Middle Western contacts arising out of his unconditional support for the Bush War and Death Machine.
http://www.worldreports.org/news/250_signs_of_an_end_game_showdown_with_washington
No doubt the revelations of the Chilcot Enquiry will lead to the prosecution of those implicated in these crimes against humanity that have not only persecuted the Iraqi population, but plundered and destroyed their country. No doubt there is a similar agenda in Afghanistan that has not been acknowledged by the official media too. We are beginning to see the truth emerge at last.
Noeline Clayfield
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Noeline Clayfield, originally from Australia, is currently residing in Ecuador, South America. Her former career experiences in the realms of Advertising, Public Relations and Real Estate Sales have honed her skills in written expression.
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Re:The Chilcot Enquiry into the Origins of the Iraq War
« Reply #1 on: 2009-12-05 18:42:30 » |
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Now if the UK prosecutes the poodle, while Obama is "too busy looking forward" to prosecute the Cheney-Bush criminal conspiracy, will the rest of the world have an obligation to prosecute them and their cronies? If so, could they legally adopt special rendition programs, and what would the USA have to say about it?
This could become really wierd in a wonderful way.
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Re:The Chilcot Enquiry into the Origins of the Iraq War
« Reply #2 on: 2009-12-30 17:36:59 » |
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Quote from: Hermit on 2009-12-05 18:42:30 Now if the UK prosecutes the poodle, while Obama is "too busy looking forward" to prosecute the Cheney-Bush criminal conspiracy, will the rest of the world have an obligation to prosecute them and their cronies? If so, could they legally adopt special rendition programs, and what would the USA have to say about it?
This could become really wierd in a wonderful way.
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I was thinking the same thing. How in the f-ing world can Blair be guilty on Iraq and Cheney-Bush not be? Obama being the political animal he is will probably hold back and let Eric Holder be the heavy whom we would hope wouldn't want to be outshone by the UK prosecution/justice system once the tides turn on this. At least that's how it would probably work if it ever does at all. In any case, at least if Blair gets prosecuted, I'm sure a lot more prosecutors in countries they thought friendly to their brand of crimes against humanity will begin considering exercising universal jurisdiction should the criminals of our previous US administration decide to travel outside the homeland.
updates via google-news - I would be most interested to hear the opinions of anybody in the UK on this.
Mirror --> 24/Dec/09 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/12/24/gordon-brown-could-fight-general-election-before-sir-john-chilcot-s-iraq-inquiry-115875-21920002/ Will Gordon Brown schedule his 2010 political showdown around the Chilcot inquiry's calendar?
Pacific Free Press --> 29/Dec/09 http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5282-chilcot-inquiry-a-theatre-of-the-absurd.html I've never heard of this news outlet, but it sounds like the kind of criticism an inquiry such as this could expect to suffer. Is it just political theater designed to slow or obstruct the march to justice?
The guardian 12/Dec/09--> http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/dec/12/tony-blair-iraq-chilcot-inquiry Tony Blair confronts an uncomfortably realistic "hypothetical" in a PR damage-control attempt before his testimony before the Chilcot inquiry. He "would have invaded Iraq anyway even without evidence of weapons of mass destruction and would have found a way to justify the war to parliament and the public." However closer to reality his hypothetical may be than his already admitted and even more incredible lack of judgement, he's willing to pull out "the ends justify the means" excuse. You hear that Britons?!?! Even if he was wrong, you British citizens simply can't handle the truth!! If he knew better (which he probably did) he would have had to lie to you infantiles anyway in order to do the right thing. I don't think even Bush would insult US that badly, . . . he'd just Bubba-out on us and pretend to not understand as usual.
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Re:The Chilcot Enquiry into the Origins of the Iraq War
« Reply #3 on: 2009-12-30 20:20:57 » |
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This story kind of adds to the flavor of this thread, and caught me off guard. Seems more bad deeds stories are starting to surface.
and a side bar: Interesting Interview Cindy Sheehan
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16661
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Source: PressTV
Author: SBB/DT
Date:Sat, 26 Dec 2009 05:51:45 GMT
Probe confirms CIA black jails in Lithuania
 Director of the State Security Department, Povilas Malakauskas
After the unexpected resignation of Lithuania's intelligence chief, a controversial parliamentary probe confirms the existence of CIA-run black jails in the Baltic state.
The parliamentary panel report caused considerable consternation after confirming that the CIA ran at least two black prisons in Lithuania where 'terror suspects' may have been held.
"There were facilities, there were possibilities, there were (CIA) planes, though we can't know what was on board ... Therefore such a possibility exists," said Arvydas Anusauskas, the head of parliament's national security and defense committee, who conducted the investigation.
According to the findings, CIA operatives were provided with two detention centers labeled Project 1 and Project 2: a small unit set up in 2002 that could host only one suspect, and another one that was set up in 2004 and was big enough to hold eight suspects.
Moreover, aircrafts transporting prisoners had entered Lithuanian airspace and landed in the capital, Vilnius, a number of times in 2002-2005.
"Those airplanes were not checked by border police and customs, [and] persons traveling and cargo were never identified," said Anusauskas.
The inquiry, however, found no evidence that the State Security Department had informed Lithuanian government members of its secret association with the CIA. The country's former leaders have also denied having any information of the jails.
In a report published earlier in August, ABC News described Lithuania as the third European country, after Poland and Romania, believed to host secret CIA jails.
CIA operatives reportedly sought to outwit international law and US rules and regulations by setting up overseas detention centers to interrogate terror suspects.
The findings come only a week after the Director of the State Security Department, Povilas Malakauskas, stepped down due to what he called "personal reasons."
His predecessor, Mecys Laurinkus, was also relieved from his post of ambassador to Georgia upon the orders of Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite.
Human Rights groups have criticized the Lithuanian government for not being acutely aware of the secret dealings of its "own agencies."
"The Lithuanian government should have known what its own agencies were doing and is ultimately responsible for the secret prison and any human rights violations that may have taken place there," said Amnesty International.
"The inquiry's findings are only a first step toward accountability," said Julia Hall, Amnesty International's expert on counter-terrorism in Europe.
"The investigation in Lithuania should continue and those persons responsible for any involvement in the secret site must be identified and prosecuted," she added.
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