British Inquiry: Blair Conspired with Bush as Early as February 2002 to Plot Iraq Invasion by Dave Lindorff

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sent by Sparrows since 75 days 18 hours 31 minutes, published about 75 days 5 hours 34 minutes
Most Americans are blissfully in the dark about it, but across the Atlantic in the UK, a commission reluctantly established by Prime Minister Gordon Brown under pressure from anti-war activists in Britain is beginning hearings into the actions and statements of British leaders that led to the country's joining the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. Even before testimony began in hearings that started yesterday, news began to leak out from documents obtained by the commission that the government of former PM Tony Blair had lied to Parliament and the public about the country's involvement in war planning. Britain's Telegraph newspaper over the weekend published documents from British military leaders, including a memo from British special forces head Maj. Gen. Graeme Lamb, saying that he had been instructed to begin "working the war up since early 2002." This means that Blair, who in July 2002, had assured members of a House of Commons committee that there were "no preparations to invade Iraq," was lying.
tags: blair, bush, iraq invasion, liars lying
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  1. #1    As I documented in my book, The Case for Impeachment (St. Martin's Press, 2006), there is plenty of evidence that Bush and Cheney had a scheme to put the US at war with Iraq even before Bush took office on Jan. 20, 2001. Then Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill in his own tell-all book, The Price of Loyalty, written after he was dumped from the Bush Administration, recounts that at the first meeting of Bush's new National Security Council, the question of going to war and ousting Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was on the agenda. Immediately after the 9-11 attacks, NSC anti-terrorism program czar Richard Clark also recalled Bush ordering him to "find a link" to Iraq. Meanwhile, within days...

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    written by Sparrows since 75 days 18 hours 29 minutesSparrows
  2. #2    see also: http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1051316

    Lindorff's piece is excellent, as usual.
    written by protect_democracy since 75 days 18 hours 24 minutesprotect_democracy
  3. #3    How much more evidence does anyone need to question this war on terrorism? The need for the this bogus and intrusive homeland security busniness and the complete violation of constitutional laws to see that this war on terror was actually a war against us to protect illegal special interests. All those involved in this scam should be hanged.
    written by bluefin since 75 days 4 hours 41 minutesbluefin
  4. #4    It don't take Sherlock Holmes to trace this crime straight to the doorstep of PNAC, and the living ghost of tricky dic nixonII.
    written by jomoco since 75 days 4 hours 36 minutesjomoco
  5. #5    Of course, here in the states, it's better to "look forward"... I mean, why investigate whether or not the Bush administration lied us into a war? No biggie, let's just forget about how or why thousands of americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis lost their lives. Nothin' to see here, move along, best let sleeping dogs lie...
    written by colinjames since 75 days 3 hours 44 minutescolinjames
  6. #6    Apparently some people AREN'T letting sleeping dogs or politicians lie. Good for the Brits and let us hope there is some (uh) leakage to America's media.
    written by MarkH since 74 days 15 hours 49 minutesMarkH
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