[PDF file]: […] he served as ambassador to Honduras during the US wars in Salvador and Nicaragua in the 1980s. He then went on to serve as ambassador to occupied Iraq. These assignments are only surprising to those who do not know that he learned counter-insurgency doctrine and practice as a 27-year-old in Vietnam. The same applied […]
[PDF file]: […] The 9/11 attack further strengthened this Christian macho masculinity, with the Christian Right supporting not just the subsequent intervention in Afghanistan, but also the unprovoked invasion of Iraq. In 2002, ‘69 percent of conservative Christians favoured military action, a full 10 percentage points higher than the general population’. As Jerry Falwell proclaimed in a […]
[PDF file]: […] be abused elsewhere. Grange, now dead, subsequently resigned his post while under investigation for failing to investigate a judge accused 1 Rose later spread some of the Iraq War propaganda and then tried to rehabilitate himself with an article in the New Statesman openly admitting that he had for years been open to ‘manipulation’ […]
[PDF file]: […] John Ward recently on his excellent blog The Slog.90 Dodgy dossier 2 Well, here we are in the blood and chaos caused by the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq, ‘justified’ by the ‘dodgy dossier’ prepared for Mr Blair by his allies within the UK intelligence agencies, and what has Whitehall done? Created another ‘dodgy dossier’ […]
[PDF file]: […] embedding in what is for the rest of them a clear clique with a deeply pro-establishment bent. Those who were in Parliament at the time supported the Iraq war, which doesn’t bode well for their intelligence analysis. Now Brexit has sharpened some of their antipathy to the serial rebel Corbyn. Probably speaking for all […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay The right madness I was flipping through Richard Cockett’s Thinking the Unthinkable (Fontana, 1995) about the influence of the ‘think tanks’ on the Thatcher revolution, and noticed a quote from a 1968 Fabian pamphlet on the then politically insignificant ‘New Right’ – essentially the Institute for Economic Affairs […]
[PDF file]: […] bomb during an air raid, with several officers killed but nevertheless reported with grim irony as ‘killed in action’! (p. 36) Smiley went on to serve in Iraq and Syria before taking part in the 2 little known British occupation of Iran, a joint operation with the Russians. For a while, he was stationed […]
[PDF file]: […] usurp the role reserved to the Crown. * The military were upset. Like most people who knew something about Saddam Hussein, they didn’t really want the second Iraq war, they wanted to leave Afghanistan much earlier, were fed up with Chancellor Brown’s cuts and 18 This reality was voiced by Lord Ashdown during the […]
[PDF file]: […] Johnson at The Spectator and was its political correspondent at the time of 9/11. Not long afterwards his comfortable and well-rewarded worldview changed. The turning point was Iraq, and my realisation that the British state was party to a lie about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in order to justify an illegal […]
