[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] emerged as critics of liberal domestic policy, this might be a surprise to its founding members. In his analysis of the CFR’s role in the invasion of Iraq, Raso seems to think the CFR membership of many of the signatories of the Project for a New American Century was more important than the actual […]
[PDF file]: […] to call it “the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine,” Chomsky said. “It’s a very interesting phrase; it was never used before. You look back, you look at Iraq, which was totally unprovoked, nobody ever called it ‘the unprovoked invasion of Iraq’. In fact I don’t know if the term was ever used — if […]
[PDF file]: […] friendless. He features a couple of times in the diaries of the period (Benn, Mullin), usually in the role of a minor comic commentator.1 6 After the Iraq war he was increasingly vituperative about Blair and despised the calculations made at the highest level of the Labour Party in 2003-2004 to readmit Livingstone so […]
[PDF file]: […] Left Attack Bilderberg, The Real 1% Dominated By White Males?’, Infowars, 3 June 2017, or . 6 first whispers were heard of the 1999 Kosovo and 2003 Iraq wars.’7 It is also claimed that Bilderberg instigated the 1973 Arab oil embargo, for the sinister purpose of channelling the industrialised world’s wealth via the Arab […]
[PDF file]: […] and the Gulf states’. As for Britain, we are ‘a pimple that simply doesn’t want to be squeezed from Uncle Sam’s backside’. (pp. 55-57) In the end, Iraq was bombed in December 1998 and MacShane records that according to No 10 special adviser Roger Liddle – later Baron Liddle – ‘Blair was far more […]
[PDF file]: […] hardline, right-wing Republican. He first got involved in politics in 1964, campaigning for Barry Goldwater and he was one of the architects of the US invasion of Iraq in March 2003. He was a staunch advocate of regime change as a US strategy and was particularly exercised about Iran and the improvement in Iran’s […]
[PDF file]: […] long list of such subjects – I could fill every issue of Lobster with them – but two that have struck me recently are the effects in Iraq of the use of depleted uranium ammunition by the US (and UK?) forces and the health effects of Monsanto’s popular weedkiller Roundup. For Depleted uranium see, […]
