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Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah ‘worse than Hiroshima’

Aug 25, ’10 7:39 PM

Amer­ica, kick­ing ass:

Dra­matic increases in infant mor­tal­ity, can­cer and leuk­aemia in the Iraqi city of Fal­lu­jah, which was bom­barded by US Mar­ines in 2004, exceed those repor­ted by sur­viv­ors of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Naga­saki in 1945, accord­ing to a new study.

Dr Busby says that while he can­not identify the type of arma­ments used by the Mar­ines, the extent of genetic dam­age suffered by inhab­it­ants sug­gests the use of uranium in some form. He said: “My guess is that they used a new weapon against build­ings to break through walls and kill those inside.”

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Help arrest Tony Blair

Feb 2, ’10 1:17 PM

Great piece by George Mon­biot on the cam­paign to arrest Tony Blair:

Already the cam­paign has borne fruit. Out­side the Chil­cot inquiry a woman called Grace McCann, inspired by the web­site, tried to appre­hend Mr Blair, before she was restrained and removed by the police. She qual­i­fies for the first bounty: one quarter of the total pot at the time of her attempt. She has pledged to give the money to rel­ev­ant char­it­ies. The fund will remain open until Blair is offi­cially pro­sec­uted, and we will keep pay­ing out to those who fol­low Grace’s example.

You can donate here.

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Iraq to sue U.S., Britain over depleted uranium bombs

Feb 2, ’10 8:24 AM

Press TV:

Iraq’s Min­istry for Human Rights will file a law­suit against Bri­tain and the US over their use of depleted uranium bombs in Iraq, an Iraqi min­is­ter says.

Accord­ing to Iraqi experts, the U.S. and Bri­tain, being the lov­ers of free­dom and demo­cracy that they are:

… bombed the coun­try with nearly 2,000 tons of depleted uranium bombs dur­ing the early years of the Iraq war. Atomic radi­ation has increased the num­ber of babies born with defects in the south­ern provinces of Iraq.

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Plans for war crimes prosecution against Blair

Feb 2, ’10 8:13 AM

Finally. Let’s hope this guy is good.

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Blair used Kosovo War to justify invading Iraq

Jan 26, ’10 1:00 PM

Here’s another reason why I opposed the Nato bomb­ing of Yugoslavia in 1999. Give war crim­in­als like Blair an inch and they’ll take the rope and go on to invade the rest of the world:

Wood told the inquiry that some min­is­ters and even the then prime min­is­ter, Tony Blair, used to privately claim that the Nato bomb­ing of Kosovo in 1999 provided a use­ful pre­ced­ent for going to war in Iraq.

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War criminals looking after their own

Dec 16, ’09 11:32 PM

Soli­citor Daniel Machover, after politi­cians — includ­ing Gor­don Brown — hatch a plan to insu­late fel­low politi­cians from uni­ver­sal jur­is­dic­tion:

I feel hon­est revul­sion at the idea of a case where a judge has gran­ted an arrest war­rant and a politi­cian gets on the phone and apo­lo­gises. They have got to stay out of indi­vidual cases and legal decisions.

Of course Gor­don Brown and the gov­ern­ment he is a part of played an integ­ral role in the inva­sions of Iraq and Afgh­anistan. He’s just look­ing out for his own kind.

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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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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.

Click through to read more and view a video excerpt of the interview.

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Inquiries into invasion of Iraq are a smokescreen

Nov 25, ’09 8:42 AM

There have been a num­ber of inquir­ies into the 2003 inva­sion of Iraq but as someone com­ment­ing on the European Tribune web­site put it, they

… are not inten­ded to reach a find­ing that the pub­lic find cred­ible, they exist to provide a smokescreen for a few years to cover the estab­lish­ment for a few years in the hope every­one for­gets about it.

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Chilcot Inquiry into Iraq War is a whitewash before it starts

Nov 23, ’09 9:06 AM

The Chil­cot Inquiry into the Iraq war is already run­ning a pro­pa­ganda cam­paign that it “won’t be a whitewash.”

But you only need to real­ise that its mem­bers were appoin­ted by Gor­don Brown — one of the per­pet­rat­ors — and read the terms of ref­er­ence to real­ise this is a white­wash before it even starts.

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