[PDF file]: […] the Comintern agent Willi Munzenberg! This is just so much special pleading, of course. And while not defending Blair, it is worth remembering that the invasion of Iraq had a worthy predecessor in the attempt to oust President Nasser in 1956. That decent traditional Tory, Anthony Eden, had covertly conspired with the French and […]
[PDF file]: […] natural resources of much of See or 12 Keating was Labor Prime Minister of Australia from 1991 until his defeat in the 1996 election. Note that on Iraq, in 2003, Blair preferred the opinions of the President of the US to those held by the leaders of France and Germany or the United Nations […]
[…] Hersh. Later, most of them turned out to hate me. They seem to think I’m part of a global conspiracy against Syria to re-run the invasion of Iraq. It’s a funny old world Liberal leftists of a certain age often suffer from horrible bigotry. It robs Muslims in the Middle East of agency and […]
[PDF file]: […] of the subjects discussed in Matthew Syed’s interesting Black Box Thinking (London: John Murray, 2016). He offers a striking example in relation to the decision to invade Iraq in 2003. He asked Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s Director of Communications at the time, if Tony Blair could change his mind about the decision to invade. […]
[PDF file]: […] early efforts to capitalise on the Pope’s shooting in 1981, through Billygate, the Grenada invasion ‘files’, the October Surprise, the yellowcake uranium invention that contributed to the Iraq War right up to his present-day warmongering Foundation for Defense of Democracy outpourings.38 There’s are lots more UK strands to the Calvi story. For those new […]
[PDF file]: […] the Assad regime. It had too much to lose by provoking the Americans. The pretext for war was false, something that was still a sensitive issue after Iraq. Instead there was a strong suspicion that it was the work of the Turkish-backed al-Nusra front, intending to fix the blame on Assad and thereby provoke […]
[…] Labour leader on a local council miles away making a bit of cash-in-hand, focus group money. He told me afterwards, contrary to his expressed views on the Iraq war at the group, that he’d met Tony Blair at a Labour Friends of Israel bash and wouldn’t have a word said against him. But setting […]
[PDF file]: […] FOI Act there were no ministerial vetoes – the first one was in 2009 and related to the contents of the legal advice on military action against Iraq. Subsequently there have been another 5, including one prohibiting the disclosure of correspondence between Mr Charles Windsor and government ministers. One can only guess why these […]
[PDF file]: […] his rather pally relationship with a known Russian spy. See either man. Chilcot There is so much to be said about Sir John Chilcot’s Inquiry into the Iraq War. It ironically delivered a political Weapon of Mass Destruction that no-one was expecting and it was a shame that press coverage of the report was […]
[PDF file]: […] position of Labour Party leader and prime minister without the inconvenience of a contest for either 17 The easy choice was to go with the US on Iraq and Israel – particularly if you want a subsequent life on the US lecture circuit. 18 Between 2001 and 2005 Blair considered and rejected setting up […]
