UK Inquiry 'Toothless' and 'Feeble' in Probing Origins of Iraq War
Where is our Chilcot?
AntiWar.Com
by Kelley B. Vlahos
02/02/10
He was defiant and unrepentant — he even made a few people sob in disgust — but there he was on Friday, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, sitting for a six-hour public inquest on his role in taking England down the bloody path to war seven years ago this March. Pity is, the chances of getting George W. Bush to take a similar hot seat here in the United States seem only slightly better than seeing Martians land a flying saucer on the National Mall...
http://original.antiwar.com/vlahos/2010/02/01/where-is-our-chilcot/
The case against Tony Blair
CounterPunch
by Patrick Cockburn
02/01/10
In trying to prove him mendacious, critics of Blair underplay his incompetence. His very fluency as a propagandist militated against long term military success. He conflates the invasion of Iraq with the long term occupation of Iraq as if both were seen as acts of liberation by ordinary Iraqis. The US and Britain might just have got away with overthrowing Saddam Hussein, whom most Iraqis wanted to see the back of, but a long term imperial occupation was never going to succeed because it had too many enemies inside and outside the country. It was striking in Blair’s testimony that so many of his references to Iraq are inaccurate...
http://counterpunch.org/patrick02012010.html
Did Tony Blair use Hitler's rhetoric to go to war in Iraq?
ABUSE of rhetoric led Britain into invading Iraq in the same way the Nazis used oral propaganda to mobilise for war, a leading communications professor in East London argues.
http://snipurl.com/uihzx
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Citizen's Arrest of War Criminals Tony Blair and George W. Bush
By Prof. Anthony J. Hall
All over the world, citizens are mobilizing to take action to demand accountability from those who have been committing with impunity the highest order of international crime.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24565.htm
Baffle Them with Bull Feathers
By Commander Jeff Huber
Bull Feather Merchants discussed how fighting propaganda wars became the Pentagon's primary mission during young Mr. Bush's administration. This piece describes how the ubiquitous warmongery continues to manipulate American and the world into a constant state of armed conflict.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24570.htm
The Power of Nightmares - The Shadows In The Cave
The Power of Nightmares assesses whether the threat from a hidden and organised terrorist network is an illusion. The programme explains how the illusion was created and who benefits from it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1040.htm
Dr Hans Blix discusses Chilcot Inquiry
Video
Former chief United Nations weapons inspector, Dr Hans Blix, joins Lateline from Sweden to discuss the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war, as well as Iran and North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2010/02/09/2814997.htm
From Information Clearing House
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Mock This Campaign If You Like, But How Else Can Blair Be Held to Account?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/02-1
UK Inquiry 'Toothless' and 'Feeble' in Probing Origins of Iraq War
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/02/17-0
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AntiWar.Com
by Kelley B. Vlahos
02/02/10
He was defiant and unrepentant — he even made a few people sob in disgust — but there he was on Friday, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, sitting for a six-hour public inquest on his role in taking England down the bloody path to war seven years ago this March. Pity is, the chances of getting George W. Bush to take a similar hot seat here in the United States seem only slightly better than seeing Martians land a flying saucer on the National Mall...
http://original.antiwar.com/vlahos/2010/02/01/where-is-our-chilcot/
The case against Tony Blair
CounterPunch
by Patrick Cockburn
02/01/10
In trying to prove him mendacious, critics of Blair underplay his incompetence. His very fluency as a propagandist militated against long term military success. He conflates the invasion of Iraq with the long term occupation of Iraq as if both were seen as acts of liberation by ordinary Iraqis. The US and Britain might just have got away with overthrowing Saddam Hussein, whom most Iraqis wanted to see the back of, but a long term imperial occupation was never going to succeed because it had too many enemies inside and outside the country. It was striking in Blair’s testimony that so many of his references to Iraq are inaccurate...
http://counterpunch.org/patrick02012010.html
Did Tony Blair use Hitler's rhetoric to go to war in Iraq?
ABUSE of rhetoric led Britain into invading Iraq in the same way the Nazis used oral propaganda to mobilise for war, a leading communications professor in East London argues.
http://snipurl.com/uihzx
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
--------
Citizen's Arrest of War Criminals Tony Blair and George W. Bush
By Prof. Anthony J. Hall
All over the world, citizens are mobilizing to take action to demand accountability from those who have been committing with impunity the highest order of international crime.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24565.htm
Baffle Them with Bull Feathers
By Commander Jeff Huber
Bull Feather Merchants discussed how fighting propaganda wars became the Pentagon's primary mission during young Mr. Bush's administration. This piece describes how the ubiquitous warmongery continues to manipulate American and the world into a constant state of armed conflict.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24570.htm
The Power of Nightmares - The Shadows In The Cave
The Power of Nightmares assesses whether the threat from a hidden and organised terrorist network is an illusion. The programme explains how the illusion was created and who benefits from it.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1040.htm
Dr Hans Blix discusses Chilcot Inquiry
Video
Former chief United Nations weapons inspector, Dr Hans Blix, joins Lateline from Sweden to discuss the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war, as well as Iran and North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2010/02/09/2814997.htm
From Information Clearing House
--------
Mock This Campaign If You Like, But How Else Can Blair Be Held to Account?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/02-1
UK Inquiry 'Toothless' and 'Feeble' in Probing Origins of Iraq War
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/02/17-0
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