Suzie-Q (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
By DAVID ROSE, Mail on Sunday, 29th November, 2009 By the time Tony Blair led Britain to attack Iraq, he had stopped believing his own lurid claims about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, according to an unpublished interview with the late Robin Cook, the former Leader of the Commons who resigned from the Cabinet just [...]
Man in a Shed (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
I'm alarmed by the current Iraq inquiry. Not because the emerging confirmation of what most of us believed to be true anyway - that the Iraq war was about regime claim and the WMD claims were false and that only the parlour game of denials etc from Blair and Labour prevented that getting in the open -but because I can hardly raise myself to condemn it. NHS hospitals, rated "good",...
Zandar Versus The Stupid (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Time to give thanks this year as we check to see who's talking turkey and who's merely full of stuffing. A couple of reality-show turkeys crashed the White House's state dinner on Tuesday night. Tony Blair ladled on the gravy when it came to Iraq's WMD claims he apparently knew were false. A Marine in Afghanistan had a fiery holiday cooking disaster making dinner for fellow troops. Dubai's decision...
George Washington's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Everyone knew the WMD claims were fake. For example, Tony Blair - the British Prime Minister - knew that Saddam possessed no WMDs. If America's closest ally Britain knew, then the White House knew as well. And the number 2 Democrat in the Senate -who was on the Senate intelligence committee - admitted that the Senate intelligence committee knew before the war started that Bush's public statements...
