Iran Reviews > Cranmer: Gordon Brown's 'inquiry' into the Iraq war.

[Cranmer] I suspect most people have now lost interest in Iraq, save that there is a festering belief that Blair lied to the people (and to the Commons) and they want him to be exposed. Unless the inquiry shows that to be true it will be considered a whitewash and just another cynical ploy by Brown to deflect his critics'

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[UK News] UK News » Blog Archive » Should Iraq stay behind closed doors ...: Any inquiry by this government is not only a waste of time and money, it makes a mockery of the British people, doubly painful because so richly deserved. Let’s leave it to historians to judge what really happened, long after we’re all dead and will feel the shame rather less acutely.

[Stop the War Coalition site feed] stopwar.org.uk: The families of British soldiers who were killed and injured in Iraq have already made clear their condemnation of an inquiry held in secret. Philip Cooper, whose son Jamie was the youngest soldier seriously injured in Iraq, said: "Ministers should not treat us like mushrooms - kept in the dark and fed on shit."

[Slugger O'Toole] Slugger O'Toole: the Castlereagh raid, Sir John Chilcott probably knows more about both sides in the “dirty war” than anyone else alive. As head of the closed inquiry into the Iraq war he know all questions, but will he bother to ask them?

[Positive Liberty] Positive Liberty » Iraq War - Unconstitutional, Unnecessary ...: They, along with the administration, played up the case for war unquestionably and rode the wave of war fever in the wake of September 11 in a manner not so recklessly deployed since the Spanish-American War. The evidence for a casus belli was always tenuous, and there were many people - including lifetime military, diplomatic, and intelligence professionals - who spoke out against the war.

[AlterNet.org] Brilliant Soldiers' Dissent | World | AlterNet: They're jockeying for political advantage, knowing that drawing out the war hurts the Republicans. It is a deeply cynical ploy that works only because with our all-volunteer military, most Americans don't have to face the choice of sacrificing themselves or their loved ones in a futile and losing war.

[Green Hell Blog] CAFE Obama: Proposed mileage standards would kill more Americans ...: sure I have a solution I am not Steve but I have one , I know it will not fly with the left but here it is , Drill here now and pay less also instead of throwing money down a black hole invest in at least 5 new refineries and watch as the people come up to the counter and order more wide screen TV’s, computers fur coats and entertainment and new cars .Lower the cost of energy and people will have confidence but it has to be a meaningful cost reduction for it to work it can not be a temporary thing.

[Winds of Change.NET] The Blind Left - Winds of Change.NET: Whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein's 'weapons of mass destruction,' American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in the area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the world economy. I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

[Slugger O'Toole] Slugger O'Toole: The Stalker affair, “shoot to kill”, Drumcree leaks, the Castlereagh raid, Sir John Chilcott probably knows more about both sides in the “dirty war” than anyone else alive. As head of the closed inquiry into the Iraq war he know all .

[neo-neocon] neo-neocon » Blog Archive » Deficit wars and common sense: While GWB was no conservative and spent far too much taxpayer money on dubious government programs including Medicare drug legislation, I recall he had an initiative to address social security reform and the democrats stone walled his efforts. Most vivid is the shot of the Democrats at the state of the union address.

[James Cridland's blog] The quality pitfalls of user-generated content - blog - James Cridland: Basically, most of us producing websites shouldn’t be trying to replicate what Flickr and YouTube, but should be linking to the best examples/groups/communities on those sites, and running our own UGC projects which are much more highly targeted.

[Emptywheel] Emptywheel » Dick Cheney, Torture, Iraq, and Valerie Plame: The disinformation campaign to manipulate public opinion in favor of the invasion, the torture program, and the illegal exposure of a clandestine CIA agent””my wife, Valerie Plame Wilson””were linked events. In their desperate effort to gather material to whip up public support, Cheney and others resorted to torture, well known in the intelligence craft to elicit inherently unreliable information.

[Riehl World View] Riehl World View: NY Times On Coming Deficits: We Blame Bush: But conservatives like Riehl, rather than providing an alternative numerical analysis, think they can get away with sweeping assertions that have no basis in anything other than fact-free wingnut theology, such as, "They totally ignore the impact of Obama's policies on the private sector and how that will impact revenue and increase some entitlement spending in outlying years." Yeah, it reminds me of that meme from a couple of months ago about how Obama's election was supposedly causing the stock market to tank .

[Marisacat] Top Card Fight « Marisacat: This is all wrong: the bombing of Iraq by the Clinton administration was just as wrongheaded, cruel, and unnecessary as the Bush invasion, because, as Hans Blix, former chief of the UN weapons inspection team, put it, the Iraqis “destroyed all, almost, of what they had in the summer of 1991.” In an interview with the BBC, Jafar Dhia Jafar, who ran Iraq’s nuclear program for some 25 years, said the inspections regime made the program impossible to implement, and chemical and bio-weapons, as well as the nascent nuclear effort, were dismantled in 1991.

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