[PDF file]: […] of the book. A friend of Elizabeth Forsyth read the Gerald James book In The Public Interest,4 about the destruction of James’ company, Astra, in the arms-to- Iraq 3 A quick sketch of Nadir is at . Reviewed in these columns at . For lots of detail see . 4 3 scandal. Astra had […]
[PDF file]: […] to warn of this coming conflict – but only if I could double-source my friend’s tip-off. I couldn’t manage that in time, but we now know the Iraq invasion was indeed being planned by US NeoCons long before the September 11 attacks which Bush deployed as its justification. Those who remember the 2001 general […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[…] of the book. A friend of Elizabeth Forsyth read the Gerald James book In The Public Interest,4 about the destruction of James’ company, Astra, in the arms-to- Iraq scandal. Astra had been Astra Fireworks until James bought it and built it up 3 A quick sketch of Nadir is at . Reviewed in these […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[…] I sat and watched all five episodes of the BBC programmes about the two Bs. Both men did one big thing. Blair supported the US invasion of Iraq. Twenty years and at least half million dead later, Blair did not apologise. Nor did he acknowledge that the intelligence he had been given was wrong. […]
[…] I sat and watched all five episodes of the BBC programmes about the two Bs. Both men did one big thing. Blair supported the US invasion of Iraq. Twenty years and at least half million dead later, Blair did not apologise. Nor did he acknowledge that the intelligence he had been given was wrong. […]
