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Blair admits intention to commit war crimes

Dec 12, ’09 4:22 PM

Tony Blair has admit­ted on TV his inten­tion was to com­mit the inter­na­tional crime of uni­lat­eral war for regime change. You couldn’t make this stuff up.

Asked if he would have gone on had he known there was no WMDs, he replied:

I would still have thought it right to remove [Sad­dam Hus­sein]. I mean obvi­ously you would have had to use and deploy dif­fer­ent argu­ments about the nature of the threat.

Two world wars, tens of mil­lions dead, the sub­sequent entrench­ment of inter­na­tional law under the Charter of the United Nations and Tony Blair thinks that the decision to go to war should come down to his own per­sonal beliefs about right and wrong.

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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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