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What is Tony Blair’s excuse for invading Iraq now?

Oct 24, ’10 3:07 PM

In 1980 Iraq invaded Iran. In response the United States, Bri­tain, France, Ger­many and the Soviet Union provided Hus­sein the means to build a chem­ical, bio­lo­gical and nuc­lear weapons programme.

In 1986 the United States with Bri­tain blocked all Secur­ity Coun­cil res­ol­u­tions con­demning Iraq’s use of chem­ical weapons, and on 21 March the United States became the only coun­try to refuse to sign a Secur­ity Coun­cil state­ment con­demning Iraq’s use of these weapons.

Iraq failed to defeat Iran and in 1988 a cease fire was declared.

In 1990 a U.S. Ambas­sador met with Hus­sein under instruc­tions “to broaden and deepen our rela­tions with Iraq” and declared “we have no opin­ion on the Arab-Arab con­flicts, like your bor­der dis­agree­ment with Kuwait.” No expli­cit go ahead was given for the inva­sion of Kuwait but a month later Hus­sein invaded, under the assump­tion that the United States would not respond.

Hus­sein had been cut loose.

The Secur­ity Coun­cil imposed a bru­tal near-total fin­an­cial and trade embargo, killing half a mil­lion Iraqi children.

When the World Trade Centre was attacked in 2001 they tried to pin it on Hus­sein. Then there was the whole ‘Sad­dam could nuke Bri­tain in 45 minutes’ thing. Then they tried to link Sad­dam to Al-Qaeda. When all of these excuses crumbled Tony Blair and his ilk were left to pro­claim that they invaded Iraq because Sad­dam was a bad man, a tor­turer and murderer.

Thanks to WikiLeaks, and some brave whis­tleblower, we now have a very clear por­trait of a United States and Bri­tain com­pli­cit in the tor­ture and murder of Iraqis. Blair has run out of excuses.

In the mean time Iraq’s oil reserves have been handed over to the markets.

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Obama perpetuates “wiped off the earth” lie

Sep 25, ’10 4:51 PM

Barack Obama:

Under­stand­ably, Israel is very con­cerned when the pres­id­ent of a coun­try, a large coun­try near them, states that they should be wiped off the face of the earth.

Which is simply a lie. Is it any won­der Amer­ic­ans are so brain­washed?

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70% of Americans still the most gullible on the planet

Feb 21, ’10 8:01 PM

Back in 2003 and 2004 over 70% of American’s polled were telling poll­sters not only that they believed Sad­dam Hus­sein had WMDs but that he was per­son­ally involved in the attack on the World Trade Centre.

Now they’re at it again, with over 70% telling poll­sters that they think Iran has nuc­lear weapons.

Should this coun­try really be allowed to deal in inter­na­tional politics?

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Former Director of Public Prosecutions: Blair is a deceitful sycophant

Dec 14, ’09 7:43 PM

Ken Mac­Don­ald, Dir­ector of Pub­lic Pro­sec­u­tions between 2003 – 2008, writ­ing for the Times:

The degree of deceit involved in our decision to go to war on Iraq becomes stead­ily clearer. This was a for­eign policy dis­grace of epic pro­por­tions and play­ing foot­sie on Sunday morn­ing tele­vi­sion does noth­ing to repair the dam­age. It is now very dif­fi­cult to avoid the con­clu­sion that Tony Blair engaged in an alarm­ing sub­ter­fuge with his part­ner George Bush and went on to mis­lead and cajole the Brit­ish people into a deadly war they had made per­fectly clear they didn’t want, and on a basis that it’s increas­ingly hard to believe even he found truly credible.

Hind­sight is a great temp­tress. But we needn’t trouble her on the way to a con­fid­ent con­clu­sion that Mr Blair’s fun­da­mental flaw was his syco­phancy towards power.

Since those sorry days we have fre­quently heard him repeat­ing the self-regarding man­tra that “hand on heart, I only did what I thought was right”. But this is a narcissist’s defence and self-belief is no answer to mis­judg­ment: it is cer­tainly no answer to death.

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Actually Obama, America did seek war in Afghanistan

Dec 11, ’09 9:34 AM

Obama accept­ing his Nobel prize:

… per­haps the most pro­found issue sur­round­ing my receipt of this prize is the fact that I am the Commander-in-Chief of a nation in the midst of two wars. One of these wars is wind­ing down. The other is a con­flict that Amer­ica did not seek …

Except that Amer­ica did seek armed con­flict with Afgh­anistan.

In Octo­ber of 2001 the Taliban pub­licly offered to hand Osama bin Laden over to a third coun­try, provided the U.S. hal­ted the illegal bomb­ing of Afgh­anistan and pro­duced the neces­sary evid­ence about involve­ment of bin Laden or any of his asso­ci­ates in the 11 Septem­ber attacks. Bush rejec­ted this, put­ting an end to any pos­sib­il­ity of a poten­tially peace­ful, legal res­ol­u­tion to the events of 11 Septem­ber 2001, and opened up the way for the inva­sion and occu­pa­tion of Afgh­anistan, Iraq and the threat of inva­sion of Iran, along with the mil­lions who have lost their lives or had them des­troyed as a result.

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Iran should tell the West to fuck off

Nov 2, ’09 7:37 PM

As part of nego­ti­ations with Iran over nuc­lear fuel Mohamed ElBaradei of the Inter­na­tional Atomic Energy Agency recently pro­posed that Iran trans­fer about 70 per­cent of its low-enriched uranium to Rus­sia for fur­ther enrich­ment by the end of this year, then to France for con­ver­sion into fuel plates for med­ical use, effect­ively neg­at­ing its use in alleged poten­tial nuc­lear weapons.

Iran has appar­ently made the per­fectly jus­ti­fi­able sug­ges­tion that rather than send their fuel off, and cross their fin­gers that it comes back, they instead do a dir­ect swap of their low-enriched uranium for fuel plates. This makes even more sense when you real­ise that the U.S. and France have reneged on com­mer­cial deals in the past to sup­ply Iran with nuc­lear fuel.

Accord­ing to this Reu­ters report (typ­ic­ally vague on sources) this sug­ges­tion is “unac­cept­able” to “West­ern diplomats.”

If you wanted evid­ence that these nego­ti­ations are not being car­ried out in good faith then here you have it. What does it mat­ter to the West if a dir­ect swap is made? The only reason it could mat­ter is that peace is not the West’s aim.

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‘We invaded Iraq and all we get is this lousy t-shirt’

Oct 24, ’09 11:40 AM

They invade and lay waste another coun­try, des­troy the lives of mil­lions of Iraqis for gen­er­a­tions to come, all on some trumped up drivel about “weapons of mass destruction.”

Now they’re arguing over the real reason. Oil. It’s not enough that con­trol of Iraq’s crude is being div­vied up amongst the cap­it­al­ists of the world. Thomas Pick­ens — an oil tycoon and polit­ical act­iv­ist who hasn’t served a day in the army him­self — has been arguing a line, and accord­ing to Reu­ters, recently told U.S. con­gress that he thinks U.S. cap­it­al­ists alone are “entitled” to Iraqi crude because “we” spent bil­lions of U.S. taxes and the lives of 5000 U.S. army pawns invad­ing and occupy­ing the country.

Classy.

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Top Things you Think You Know about Iran that are not True

Oct 2, ’09 6:19 AM

With cur­rent events this is a must read for any Westerner.

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‘No credible evidence’ of Iranian nuclear weapons

Sep 30, ’09 7:50 PM

‘No cred­ible evid­ence’ of Ira­nian nuc­lear weapons, says UN inspector:

The UN’s chief weapons inspector, Mohamed ElBaradei, said today he had seen “no cred­ible evid­ence” that Iran is devel­op­ing nuc­lear weapons, reject­ing Brit­ish intel­li­gence alleg­a­tions that a weapons pro­gramme has been going on for at least four years.

Any­one sur­prised by this is just a fuck­ing plonker.

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Neda’s death used selectively as a propaganda tool

Jun 25, ’09 8:36 AM

Neda Agha-Soltan is a young women from Iran who was shot dead while protest­ing against repres­sion in Iran. She has a page on Wiki­pe­dia. Pho­tos and video and of her death have been widely broad­cast by the West­ern media, with copi­ous amounts of faux sympathy.

She deserves our sym­pathy because she appears to be a vic­tim of the latest West­ern bogey­man: Iran. She, as Noam Chom­sky might note, is a “worthy victim.”

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