Chilcot Inquiry - Iraq War Crime Cover-up (Reaction Letter)

Dear Corporate and State-funded Western Media Journalists,

The attack upon Iraq in 2003 was a War Crime. It was premeditated murder. If you want to be honest about this issue you can't simply put on establishment apologists and think you are doing a good job.

You should try interviewing critics in the alternative media that understand International Law and the specific circumstances that led to the invasion.

Presently you are simply repeating the meme that the Chilcot Inquiry 'stopped short of saying the war was illegal' - that it was largely the result of intelligence failures (not deliberate lies). However, the Inquiry also said that Saddam's Iraq was not actually an imminent threat to any nation, regardless of the perceived WMD 'danger'. Because there was no real threat the war was indeed illegal.

There was no 'self defence' justification and neither was there a UN sanction for the attack. This makes the war authorising individuals, the President and Prime Ministers, War Criminals.

You cannot let your war apologist guests go unchallenged when they say that mistakes were made and that we need to make sure this does not happen again - that prosecution is not necessary. Hundreds of thousands died. Accepting a 'we must look forward' position is allowing criminals to go free.

And these politicians are criminals.

DELIBERATE LIES were told about Iraq's WMDs and the threat they posed. The liars included politically appointed bosses within the intelligence community, such as George Tenet. The actual intelligence on the WMD 'threat', the 2002 October National Intelligence Estimate, stated that there was NO threat, and that the information on the WMD programs was either ambiguous or fabricated (the aluminium tubes, the yellowcake uranium, the nuclear weapons program, Iraq's ties to Al Qaeda, the mobile weapons labs, the 45min threat capability, plus claims of stockpiled chemical weapons - this last point was made up by people like Donald Rumsfeld).

In 2005 an Australian documentary titled; Truth, Lies and Intelligence laid out the case that the lies for the war had been pushed by political chiefs led by neoconservative ideologues. It also pointed out that the 'intelligence' being used to justify the war was known to be faulty at the time. The whole video is not online, but it is worth checking out this 3 minute clip and buying the DVD:

Truth, Lies, and Intelligence


We also know that the British Government knew the US leadership - the politicians, neoconservatives and intelligence chiefs - were cooking up a case to go to war. In a set of documents known as the Downing Street Memos we find that; "the [US] intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy" so that war could be waged against Iraq. The UK went along with this policy of fabrication and constructed their own 'Dodgy Dossier' claiming that Iraq could use WMDs on British forces in the region with only a 45 minute warning for such an attack.

Undoubtedly, without these politically driven lies there would have been no war.

Punishment is necessary in order to stop continued war-facilitating lying. We have recently seen the false claim that the Assad Government used chemical weapons in the Syrian War. These recent lies almost led to an overt Western attack on that country that would have advantaged ISIS.

If the people who launched the 2003 Iraq War had been jailed for War Crimes, things would be very different now. War Crimes trials are still needed.

Spook

ps. Now the apologists are saying that 'no one could have predicted' the terrible outcome of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 - as part of their defence for the 'ill-advised' invasion. Dick Cheney 'predicted' what would happen in 94. He said it would be a quagmire and the country would fall apart:



Related Info:

Congressional Hearing on Limits of Executive Power: Lawyer Vincent Bugliosi (Prosecution of George W Bush for Murder author).
He shows (clearly) that the Bush Administration doctored a key intelligence report given to Congress so that it said Iraq was a threat when it was not. He has a copy of both documents in front of him. This skulduggery shows the political influence in skewing the intelligence - it was not 'an intelligence mistake'. When people appearing on TV say this they are either ignorant or deliberately lying



The Iraq War Lies (info and links on key areas of lying)

Lie by Lie: A Timeline of How We Got Into Iraq


[Originally posted at the Spookyweather blog.]

The Iraq inquiry; Tony Blair said he believed that Saddam had WMD's

Either the CIA and British intelligence people were manipulated or they themselves did the manipulation to place us over there in Iraq for corporational profit.
Fact is no WMD's have ever been discovered in Iraq.
So either the CIA and British intelligence people are very easy to manipulate through false info or those alphabet people lied to Blair and Bush.
Perhaps Blair and Bush just out and out lied on their own.

So what are we to believe?
#1That they are all stupid and incompetent at their jobs?
#2 They are intelligent and know what's up and gleefully deceived us all.

Lets just say that WMD's (weapons of mass destruction) had been there.
Isn't America responsible for Saddam having them in the first place?

When are they going to get a clue and understand that the more they try to prevent this mess from happening the more it happens? The fact is that the more we meddle trying to manipulate an outcome that they would consider favorable the more they have to fix the mess they created.(and it's always a mess)
There is a pattern here that is clear to anyone that can see. Of course in order for that to happen they would have to take their heads out of their arrogant fear driven arse's or out of the corporational arse's they are licking and pay attention.

read all of Tony Blair comments here

They Will Come Speaking In My Name

I was visiting George Washintons blog. His blog is one of the blogs on "my blogs I follow" list ; I read an article on President Bush and Tony Blair regarding their beliefs on going to war in Iraq and the war on terror.Those two are justifying their abominable actions as "Gods will" -" a moral cause to bring on the apocalypse".
The more I read, the more outraged I became,at the pompous sociopath arrogance of those supposed "Christians" parading themselves around as "Gods Chosen" to do battle with the "EVIL" That would "come from the North" "and destroy Israel" unless stopped.
(here's a thought for ya:: we are now occupying Iraq which is North of Israel)
Here is another thought: What made those pompous arrogant sociopaths think that God meant for them to stop this "Evil from the north" with war?
How is it Ok to bring on 911 and declare a war on terror???????
How is it OK to torture people????
I am a student of the Bible and many other religious works around the globe. I have read the Bible from cover to cover many times and while my memory will not let me quote chapter and verse their is not ANYTHING in there that I do not have a good idea about what and where people are quoting from.
The statement that really got to me was this one,
"they were to bring on the apocalypse"
I thought about these wannabe Christians like G.W.Bush and T.Blair and thought about Jesus and his teachings.
I have a few questions.
Where does Jesus say in the Bible that it is OK to slaughter your enemies, invade countries,and use his name to do it in????
Where did Jesus say it was Ok to Kill in the name of God????
Where did Jesus say ANYTHING about war being OK??
Christians are followers of Jesus Christ and Jesus is universally accepted among Christians as THE CHRIST,"The only begotten son of God".
Last time I read Jesus's teachings THIS is what I read-
"They will come speaking in my name and say Lo, he is here or lo, he is there but pay them no heed for they be wolves in sheep's clothing, No man knows the hour that I cometh for that is determined by my Father which is in Heaven:"
(This is not an exact quote since I pull from memory but it is close enough)
Also Jesus said: "Love thy enemies,be good to them that spitefully curse and abuse you" Then there is this statement that Jesus said: "love thy neighbor as thyself",Jesus also said:"Turn the other cheek".
I believe the term "holy wars" is in direct conflict with these statements of Jesus.
Imagine! Christians in Jihad!
While Jesus did say that "he came not to bring peace but the sword" I feel quite confident in the presumption that Jesus did not appoint G.W.Bush or T.Blair or any other twisted mind to act in his name regarding this statement.
Jesus is claimed by the Christians to be "Gods Voice and instrument upon this Earth" and "God in the flesh".
Well it is clear to me that what Jesus taught was clearly about Gods love!!!!
According to Christian Beliefs,Jesus was sent here to show man the Correct way to honor God .
Jesus NEVER said ANYTHING about Killing others in Gods name as a way to spread Christian beliefs so that the world would be better off.
As a matter of fact Jesus told his disciples that they were to go town to town teaching and if that teaching was rejected then the disciples were told to not tarry there in that town but move on shaking the dust of that town from their feet.
Now there have been many people through-out time that have perverted the Bible to their own ends and used the Biblical Teachings to "act in the name of God" in an ungodly manner. These perverse Actions WERE CLEARLY SPOKE AGAINST AND CONDEMED BY JESUS!!!! Christian Beliefs say Jesus was THE WAYSHOWER .
NOWHERE IN THE WAY JESUS SHOWED WAS ANYTHING ABOUT KILLING BEING OK, NOR WAS THERE ANYTHING ABOUT WAR BEING OK IN GODS EYES!!!!
Popes,Kings,Queens and serial killers, have used the Bible to justify torture,burning at the stake,mass killings,wars,psychological torment,cruel punishing judgement,along with many other evils calling it "following Gods will" "destined by God" or some other unholy,irrational,sick minded,brain twisted,crap!!!!!!
Always these twisted ,sick minds have quoted Biblical scripture to back themselves up in a pathetic attempt to justify what they knew in their souls was wrong!!
(here is another quote from the bible:
"He who lives by the sword, Dies by the sword"
The Bible is full of beautiful words like these: "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the Earth"
I do not know what part of the Bible these clearly demented minds called themselves reading, but it is crystal clear they conveniently ignored the many,many verses that spoke AGAINST KILLING!!
To those who would use the Bible to justify tormenting and or killing another soul on this earth in some crazy Christian Jihad quest, I have a question for you.
What Part of THOU SHALL NOT KILL did You not understand?????