[PDF file]: […] There is nothing titillating about the routines of Homeland Security or the organisation of the US gulag. People like Jeremy Scahill do not need to masturbate in Iraq to find assassinations.17 They are the bread and butter business of the police and drug enforcement offices in every major US city. And torture – well, […]
[PDF file]: […] the Comintern agent Willi Munzenberg! This is just so much special pleading, of course. And while not defending Blair, it is worth remembering that the invasion of Iraq had a worthy predecessor in the attempt to oust President Nasser in 1956. That decent traditional Tory, Anthony Eden, had covertly conspired with the French and […]
[…] Hersh. Later, most of them turned out to hate me. They seem to think I’m part of a global conspiracy against Syria to re-run the invasion of Iraq. It’s a funny old world Liberal leftists of a certain age often suffer from horrible bigotry. It robs Muslims in the Middle East of agency and […]
[PDF file]: […] numbers to such unquantified amounts such as how much petrol, diesel and oil the military consume in a year; how much depleted uranium it has scattered over Iraq (and how many people will die or be injured as a result.) Not to forget the human cost of the war in Iraq, on which the […]
[PDF file]: […] natural resources of much of See or 12 Keating was Labor Prime Minister of Australia from 1991 until his defeat in the 1996 election. Note that on Iraq, in 2003, Blair preferred the opinions of the President of the US to those held by the leaders of France and Germany or the United Nations […]
[PDF file]: […] today, Turle has most recently worked for Janusian Security Risk Management (which itself is a part of the much larger Risk Advisory Group). Janusian have been in Iraq since 2003. 18 KMS have even been overtly approved as a UK government contractor. For a short period of time their work included the ‘Armed protection […]
[PDF file]: […] our conscience forever if we allowed another Srebrenica; I remember a lot of talk about Srebrenica…’ regime change for which no-one was prepared and which, as in Iraq, ended in chaos. It may be true. It may have had nothing to do with Libyan oil, the Gaddafi proposal to create an Africa-wide, gold-backed currency […]
[PDF file]: […] the book reveal that Norton-Taylor is telling a slightly different story. Chief among the villains is Tony Blair. Blair’s refusal to openly admit his commitment to invading Iraq ensured British troops were sent to war unprepared. The lack of training, equipment and local intelligence created a scenario where overstretched and under trained soldiers would […]
[PDF file]: […] Blair contributed the Foreword. Now to be fair, Blair had not yet had a chance to show his true colours; and even though Bryant voted for the Iraq War, he eventually aligned himself with Gordon Brown and played a part in bringing Blair down. Nevertheless, it is worth recalling the conversation that another Christian […]
[PDF file]: […] brisk, assertive account, with lots of documentation if I chose to pursue it, is what I want.’ Since the 2002 edition Newsinger has added a chapter on Iraq, another devastating account of the self-delusion and staggering incompetence of the Americans and futility on the part of the British Army, which suffered nearly two hundred […]
