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Damning Testimony of Cooked Intelligence Comment by Larry Ross, December 14, 2006
This article by David Corn, editor of The Nation, reveals additional important testimony that Bush and Blair cooked and altered intelligence in order to justify an illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq - an independent, sovereign state. Whereas they made much of the fact that Sad Hussein was a murdering despot and needed to be deposed so that they could introduce 'freedom and democracy' in Iraq, this was just a joke. They do not admit and US mass media did not report, that the US made and supported Sadam's dictatorship from its very beginning. They armed him, encouraged his war with Iran and his crimes against his own people. Then the US and UK decided to make war on Iraq based on a concocted batch of lies such as: Sadam has weapons of mass destruction and plans to attack. He didn't. Sadam is linked to al-Qaeda, bin Laden and the 9/11 attack. He had no such links and no part in the 9/11 attack. Sadam is making nuclear weapons. He wasn't. These are a few of the main lies repeated endlessly, without criticism by an ever-eager mass media in the US , UK and elsewhere. The so-called 'democracy' Bush/Blair sponsors in Iraq is just another US puppet regime, dressed up as a 'democracy'. Its 'authority' is confined mainly to the US-controlled Green Zone in Baghdad . Its main function is to perform a cosmetic function for the Bush regime who now claims it is dealing with the government of a sovereign state - Iraq .
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More Evidence of a Cooked-Up Case for War by David Corn, December 15, 2006 For some journalists, it's not old news that the United States and England cooked the case for war in Iraq . The Independent of England has an important story out on this front. Here's the lead: The Government's case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the A devastating attack on Mr. Blair's justification for military action by Carne Ross, Britain's key negotiator at the UN, has been kept under wraps until now because he was threatened with being charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act. In the testimony revealed today Mr. Ross, 40, who helped negotiate several UN security resolutions on Iraq , makes it clear that Mr. Blair must have known Saddam Hussein possessed no weapons of mass destruction. He said that during his posting to the UN, "at no time did HMG [Her Majesty's Government] assess that Iraq 's WMD (or any other capability) posed a threat to the UK or its interests." The paper also published Ross' entire prepared testimony. It is indeed rather devastating. This story is a reminder (hint, hint, congressional Democrats) that even though the Senate intelligence committee and a White House commission (a.k.a. the Silberman-Robb commission) examined U.S. intelligence failures regarding the Iraq's supposed WMDs and the alleged links between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda, there is plenty more to probe, particularly how the Bush administration represented (that is, misrepresented) the intelligence and how administration officials made the decision to lead the United States into the debacle in Iraq. Of course, as the co-author of a book on this subject, I have a particular interest. But there's been no greater strategic U.S. blunder in years. The public deserves a full accounting--one even fuller than Hubris . Here are excerpts of Ross's testimony : I am in the Senior Management Structure of the FCO, currently seconded to the UN in Kosovo. I was First Secretary in the UK Mission to the United Nations in New York from December 1997 until June 2002. I was responsible for Iraq policy in the mission, including policy on sanctions, weapons inspections and liaison with UNSCOM and later UNMOVIC. During that time, I helped negotiate several UN Security Council resolutions on Iraq , including resolution 1284 which, inter alia, established UNMOVIC (an acronym I coined late one New York night during the year-long negotiation). I took part in policy debates within HMG and in particular with the US government. I attended many policy discussions on Iraq with the US State Department in Washington , New York and London .... See Also: The Waiting Game |
