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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]