Related: Britain Initiates Iraq Inquiry
This is just diversion to try and get the British public to calm down.
Don't you love how they begin one NOW, six years after the fact and when they have left?
"US was impatient to invade Iraq, former UK envoy says; Tells inquiry Bush didn’t care about UN backing in ’03" by David Stringer, Associated Press | November 28, 2009
LONDON - The United States was “hell bent’’ on a 2003 military invasion of Iraq and actively undermined efforts by Britain to win international authorization for the war, a former British diplomat told an inquiry panel yesterday.
Because it was part of the PLAN!
Jeremy Greenstock, British ambassador to the United Nations from 1998 to 2003, said that President George W. Bush had no real interest in attempts to agree on a UN resolution to provide explicit backing for the conflict.
And more than that:
"Bush talked about several ways to provoke a confrontation, including a proposal to paint a US surveillance plane in the colors of the UN in hopes of drawing fire"
That is called a FALSE FLAG, readers!
The former diplomat, who served as Britain’s envoy in Iraq after the invasion, said serious preparations for the war had begun in early 2002 and took on an unstoppable momentum....
Several nations had hoped to stall the invasion of Iraq to allow UN weapons inspectors more time to search for evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction - the key justification for the war. No such weapons were ever found.
And NO WAR CRIMES CHARGES were ever brought!
Yet Bush’s inner circle cared little about what international allies thought and refused to halt plans to invade in March 2003, Greenstock said. He said that even then-Prime Minister Tony Blair was unable to persuade Bush, winning only a brief hiatus of two weeks. “The momentum for earlier action in the United States was much too strong for us to counter,’’ Greenstock said in a written statement to the inquiry panel, provided alongside his live testimony.
Bliar was worried about war crimes charges "because it would serve as an 'insurance policy against the unexpected' if anything went wrong with the military campaign."
Britain’s inquiry is the most exhaustive study yet into the war and will seek evidence from Blair, military officials, and spy agency chiefs. It will not apportion blame or establish criminal or civil liability, but will offer recommendations by late 2010 on how to prevent mistakes from being repeated....
Translation: it is a WHITEWASH COMMISSION!!!!
Look who they are taking "evidence" from, and they are going to offer "recommendations" for the "next time!"
In London, an antiwar rally in 2003 drew an estimated 2 million demonstrators - the largest street protest in a generation.
And the "democracies" STILL DID NOT LISTEN!!
Greenstock told the panel he had his own doubts, and had threatened to resign if no international backing was agreed upon.
Then why didn't you?!!
His threat came before a November 2002 resolution that offered Iraq a final opportunity to disarm and demanded access for weapons inspectors. Efforts to agree on a sterner resolution authorizing military action foundered because the international community believed the United States was “hell bent on the use of force’’ regardless of world opinion, Greenstock said....
Yeah, WE ALREADY KNOW THAT!!!!
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