We KNOW WHAT HAPPENED!
Related: Prop 102: Iraq and Government Lies
Yup, GOVERNMENTS LIED and WE KNEW IT THEN!!!!
And WTF, Glob?
"Britain's war inquiry panel opens hearings on Iraq; One of the first officials interviewed about the decision by Tony Blair's government to join the U.S.-led war speaks of 'drumbeats in Washington' before 9/11 to oust Hussein.
November 25, 2009
The British government was aware of "drumbeats in Washington" in early 2001 calling for the toppling of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein but steered clear of such an aggressive policy before the Sept. 11 attacks, officials said Tuesday as a panel launched a major inquiry on how and why the British government went to war in Iraq....Watch how this article tries to reinforce the Iraq/911 connection even though they had nothing to do with that inside job!
The six-member panel is looking into the decision of former Prime Minister Tony Blair's government to join the U.S.-led war that brought down the Iraqi dictator in 2003. It will interview policymakers, secret service chiefs, military commanders and relatives of soldiers who died in the war. Blair is scheduled to appear in January.
I smell a COVER-UP COMMISSION!!!!
The former prime minister's decision to take Britain to war, in part to dismantle weapons of mass destruction that were never found, was controversial in 2003 and steadily lost support among the British public over time. The panel is expected to look into long-standing accusations that Blair's government skewed intelligence reports to justify going to war.
We ALL KNOW THEY DID! The DOWNING STREET MEMOS!
As the inquiry opened in a conference center in central London, a small group of protesters dressed as Blair, former President George W. Bush and current British Prime Minister Gordon Brown gathered outside. Some demonstrators waved placards that declared "blood on your hands" and "no more whitewash," the latter a reference to previous inquiries that ended up justifying the war....
God bless them!
The committee began by examining British policy on Iraq and Britain's relationship with the United States on the issue just before and after the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon....
Peter Ricketts, chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee in 2001, said after the Sept. 11 attacks there was a different "tone" in Washington....
Asked whether Britain would have supported the effort to overthrow Hussein if the Sept. 11 attacks had not occurred, Ricketts said, "I'm pretty sure . . . we would have remained convinced that a strengthened sanctions regime, tightened, narrowed, was the right way to go and we would have continued to push to get weapons inspectors back in."
Sounds eerily like IRAN NOW, doesn't it?
And why the HACK JOB on the rest, BG?
Before the panel's opening session, military documents leaked to a British newspaper showed that the government's decision as early as February 2002 to go to war in Iraq was initially made with such secrecy that the planning process was "constrained," leading to a serious lack of resources and coordination and forcing soldiers to go to battle under-equipped. Some troops went with only five bullets; others had to take their equipment as hand luggage on civilian aircraft.
Unreal! A time and place of our choosing, 'eh, Rummy?
Monday's report in the Daily Telegraph citing statements by returning British officers revealed hostility between British and American troops in Iraq in the first year of the war. To the Americans, "dialogue is alien," said Col. J.K. Tanner, chief of staff for the British commander in southern Iraq.
Speaking of his U.S. counterparts, he said, "Dealing with them . . . is akin to dealing with a group of Martians. If it isn't on the PowerPoint slide, then it doesn't happen," according to the report....
WOW!
The hearings are to continue until early 2010, with a final report planned for late in the year.
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Yeah, instead the web version spotted me this PoS:
"British open investigation into Iraq war; Panel examines role, eagerness to please US" by John F. Burns, New York Times | November 25, 2009
Oh, right, the LEAD PROPAGANDIST for the INVASION is going to report the LIES they so HEALTHILY PROMOTED!
The inquiry is not empowered to take evidence on oath, and was directed, when it was impaneled this summer on Brown’s orders, to concentrate on findings of fact and not to assign blame for what went wrong in Iraq.
Oh, they DON'T HAVE to SWEAR on it, huh?
Hear that FLUSH, readers?
Away goes whatever report they come up with.
Critics who suspected a whitewash were further alarmed when Brown’s original plan required the panel to take evidence behind closed doors, a condition that was quickly abandoned under pressure from war critics and the commissioners....
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So, WHEN WE LEAVING since we GOT IN THERE on LIES?!
Yeah, instead the web version spotted me this PoS:
"British open investigation into Iraq war; Panel examines role, eagerness to please US" by John F. Burns, New York Times | November 25, 2009
Oh, right, the LEAD PROPAGANDIST for the INVASION is going to report the LIES they so HEALTHILY PROMOTED!
The inquiry is not empowered to take evidence on oath, and was directed, when it was impaneled this summer on Brown’s orders, to concentrate on findings of fact and not to assign blame for what went wrong in Iraq.
Oh, they DON'T HAVE to SWEAR on it, huh?
Hear that FLUSH, readers?
Away goes whatever report they come up with.
Critics who suspected a whitewash were further alarmed when Brown’s original plan required the panel to take evidence behind closed doors, a condition that was quickly abandoned under pressure from war critics and the commissioners....
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So, WHEN WE LEAVING since we GOT IN THERE on LIES?!
