Sources

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] and Perle in the summer of 2001, four months before 9/11. They were discussing with the Turkish ambassador in Washington an arrangement whereby the U.S. would invade Iraq and divide the country. The UK would take the south, the rest would go to the U.S. They were negotiating what Turkey required in exchange for […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] Secretary Kissinger: That’s absolutely out of the question. Mr. Sisco: I would think so, too. 1 Oh Canada! Good old Canada! It didn’t join the invasion of Iraq, did it? What an example to this country it set. Alas, it isn’t true. While Canada may not have formally supported the invasion of Iraq, informally […]

Debunking the Myth of America’s Poodle: Great Britain Wants War by Nu’man Abd al-Wahid

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] forgotten that is unless they are desperately seeking refuge in Britain, in which case they are maligned and abused. (p. 8) Looking back on the invasion of Iraq, he insists that the Blair government was not dragged reluctantly into the conflict – a poodle on a lead, so to speak – but was energetically […]

View from Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] to think. *new* He had the receipts . . . Scott Ritter is a former United States Marine Corps intelligence officer who was chief weapons inspector in Iraq during the the hunt for WMDs. The Iraq experience radicalised him and he is a regular critic of US foreign policy in the liberal/left media, notably […]

View from Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] to think. *new* He had the receipts . . . Scott Ritter is a former United States Marine Corps intelligence officer who was chief weapons inspector in Iraq during the the hunt for WMDs. The Iraq experience radicalised him and he is a regular critic of US foreign policy in the liberal/left media, notably […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] you to think. He had the receipts . . . Scott Ritter is a former United States Marine Corps intelligence officer who was chief weapons inspector in Iraq during the the hunt for WMDs. The Iraq experience radicalised him and he is a regular critic of US foreign policy in the liberal/left media, notably […]

Misc reviews

Lobster Issue

[…] intellectual authority; and, qua Catholic, his claims to rationality are difficult to take too seriously. Nonetheless this is an interesting and enjoyable polemic. Uncovered: the War on Iraq A film by Robert Greenwald A Blue Dolphin DVD, 2005, www.uncoveredthewaroniraq.com I don’t know what the political affiliations – if any – of the readers of […]

Blair Inc. by Francis Beckett, David Hencke and Nick Kochan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] Gardner, Gloucester hopeful and a former RAF officer, saying it would be ‘hypocritical’ for her to accept Mr Blair’s donation because of her decision to criticise the Iraq war. Europe and money are two of the big themes of Blair Inc., a conscientious effort by Francis Beckett, David Hencke and Nick Kochan to uncover […]

A tale of two Islingtons: How Blair opened the door for Corbyn

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] McDonnell, Corbyn and Diane Abbott) who openly supported Livingstone and even nominated him for the role. Even at the peak of his powers – this was pre- Iraq War – Blair thought it beneath him, and frankly unnecessary, to waste time (as he would have seen it) on a handful of London-based Trotskyists. Some […]

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