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Ein zerfallender Staat, Spannungen zwischen den ethno-relgiösen Gruppen, Radikalisierung der Parteien: Die USA werden gezwungen sein, im Irak auch militärisch präsent zu bleiben.

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Britain, You Better Wake Up

By Gilad Atzmon

British politicians are concerned with legalism. In other words, if someone would manage to prove that the war was 'legal' then the murdering of a million and a half Iraqis would be well justified. Let's all face it, our politicians are corrupted to the bone.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24619.htm



Memo 'shows Blair Iraq war deal with Bush'

The leader of Plaid Cymru's MPs has said he has a memo showing Tony Blair and George Bush struck a secret deal to invade Iraq a year before the 2003 war.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8501131.stm




I Don't Mean To Say I Told You So, But...

By Stephen M. Walt

In his testimony to the Iraq war commission in the U.K., former Prime Minister Tony Blair offered the following account of his discussions with Bush in Crawford, Texas in April 2002.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24628.htm


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Constitutionally Illiterate
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/constitutionally-illiterate.html



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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


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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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Iraq's Minister of Human Rights, Wijdan Mikhail Salim, told Assabah newspaper that the lawsuit will be launched based on reports from the Iraqi ministries of science and the environment.

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By Nick Robinson

Even before the attacks on New York, he told the inquiry, "force was always an option... if necessary, we were going to remove him."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24530.htm



Blair at Chilcot: a Well-rehearsed Performance

By Michael Billington

What did we expect? That Tony Blair would break down in front of the Chilcot inquiry admitting he had taken Britain to war on the basis of flimsy intelligence? That he would beg God's forgiveness for the deaths of more than 100,000 Iraqis? That he would guiltily confess that at the famous meeting at Crawford, Texas, he had given George Bush unequivocal support for military action?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24531.htm



Iraq inquiry is being 'gagged' after secret documents withheld

Crucial evidence about the reasons Britain went to war against Saddam Hussein is being kept secret it has emerged - leading to accusations that the Iraq inquiry has been "gagged".

http://snipurl.com/u848q



'You're a liar and murderer'

Blair booed after telling Iraq inquiry he has no regrets.
http://snipurl.com/u836a



Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran: Blair

Iran in 2010 more dangerous than Iraq in 2003

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said that Iran in 2010 was more dangerous in terms of its nuclear program than Iraq was in 2003. He made the remarks to a public inquiry into the Iraq war in London.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3841531,00.html



Hans Blix: Blair's blind faith in intelligence

A month before the war, I told Tony Blair it would be absurd if 250,000 troops were to invade Iraq and find no WMD. So it was...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/28/hans-blix-tony-blair-iraq



Plan to oust Saddam drawn up two years before the invasion

By Michael Savage

The document, headed "confidential UK/US eyes", was finalised on 11 June 2001 and approved by ministers. It has not been published by the Iraq inquiry but a copy has been obtained by The Independent and can be revealed for the first time today.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24553.htm



Clare Short at Iraq inquiry

Clare Short, the former International Development Secretary, certainly did not pull any punches. She told the Iraq Inquiry today that: Tony Blair lied in the build up to war - He deceived her about his commitment to UN involvement - The Cabinet never had meaningful debates about Iraq (or, indeed, anything else).

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article7011925.ece



Clare Short: Goldsmith 'Misled' Cabinet Over Iraq

By Real News Network

Clare Short accuses Lord Goldsmith, the former attorney general, of misleading the Cabinet over the legality of the Iraq war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24578.htm


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Defiant Blair: 'No Regrets', Audience Member: 'You Are a Murderer!'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/29-6

Remember the Illegal Destruction of Iraq?
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/29-0

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Chilcot inquiry shows UK's 'military linkage with US' is fundamental
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9372/

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Short: Blair “deceived Parliament”

The Press Association [UK]

02/02/10

Tony Blair deceived Parliament about the grounds for invading Iraq because he believed it was right to go to war, the inquiry into the conflict has heard. Former Cabinet minister Clare Short accused the ex-prime minister of ‘leaning on’ attorney general Lord Goldsmith to make him mislead the Government about the legality of the March 2003 invasion...

http://tinyurl.com/yaju9sg


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Details über den Tod des britischen Mikrobiologen Kelly, der die Berichte der britischen Regierung über die irakischen Massenvernichtungswaffen als aufgebauscht bezeichnete, sollen für 70 Jahre geheim bleiben.

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By Alice Ritchie

"I considered that the use of force against Iraq in March 2003 was contrary to international law," Michael Wood, chief legal advisor to the Foreign Office between 1999 and 2006, told the Chilcot inquiry in London. "In my opinion, that use of force had not been authorised by the Security Council, and had no other legal basis in international law."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24501.htm



Wanted: Tony Blair for War Crimes

By George Monbiot

Chilcot and the courts won't do it, so it is up to us to show that we won't let an illegal act of mass murder go unpunished.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24503.htm



UK lawyer: Iraq war was illegal

He also told the hearing in London that Jack Straw, the then foreign secretary, had dismissed his advice that the war was not legal without a UN resolution.

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Jack Straw ignored advice the Iraq invasion would be illegal, Foreign Office law chief tells Chilcot inquiry

Top lawyer tells of his amazement at Foreign Secretary's refusal to accept advice : Every lawyer in the Foreign Office agreed that invading Iraq would be illegal.

http://snipurl.com/u78me



Iraq war was a crime of aggression

The damning verdict of top Whitehall lawyers which No.10 refused to accept.
http://snipurl.com/u7id9



Thousands will protest at Tony Blair's Iraq inquiry appearance

Lindsey German, co-ordinator of the Stop the War Coalition, said: "We are calling on everyone who opposes Britain's foreign wars to do their best to be there."

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Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland

01/20/10

Since taking office, Barack Obama has had to deal with an economy in free fall, a self-generated health care ‘crisis’ and his attempt at ‘reform,’ and a rising Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. So far, Iraq has been quiet enough that many in the media and public have redirected their attention to the wars du jour of Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia. The relative peace (punctuated by an occasional violent attack) in Iraq may be about to evaporate and cause yet another crisis for the president...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2713



Health insurance by command

Reason
by Steve Chapman

01/21/10

Voters had a clear choice, and they chose Obama and his voluntary plan over Clinton and her compulsory approach. That settled that. Or so we thought. But something happened after Obama arrived in the Oval Office. His deep faith in the free decisions of ordinary people soon evaporated. Last summer, after the House included a mandate in its legislation, Obama suddenly had a change of heart...

http://reason.com/archives/2010/01/21/health-insurance-by-command


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How to Squander the Presidency in One Year
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