The urgent need to call Tony Blair to account
An excellent article by Katharine Gun, warning us that public opinion is yet again being carefully massaged on a path to war....
New Statesman - Iran: don't let it happen: More than three years ago, as George Bush and Tony Blair rushed headlong into the invasion of Iraq, Martin Bright, then at the Observer, tested the veracity of an e-mail passed to him and his colleagues anonymously, while I nervously waited to see if the contents would appear in a newspaper. The e-mail, which the paper duly published, contained details of a bugging operation designed to coerce wavering members of the UN Security Council to vote for the use of force. It alerted the world to what I saw as scandalous dirty tricks within the United Nations... Now, we face the dreadful possibility of action against Iran. Jack Straw may sincerely believe that "the idea of a nuclear strike in Iran is completely nuts", but we in Britain need much more detailed information of the sort that Seymour Hersh and other journalists have been revealing if we are to avoid following the US into another disaster.
In other news...
SitNews - Bush discusses leak, dismisses attack on Iran: President Bush on Monday dismissed as "wild speculation" reports that his administration is weighing possible military air strikes against Iran to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons. On Iraq, Bush confirmed for the first time that he authorized the release of prewar classified intelligence about Iraq three years ago in a bid to influence public debate about his decision to invade the country in March 2003. White House press secretary Scott McClellan denied that Bush had politicized the intelligence on Iraq by authorizing its release to reporters. "The president had the authority to declassify information as he chooses," McClellen said. "He would never declassify anything if he felt it could compromise our nation's security."
Oh, really?
These people are playing games with the lives of millions, here and abroad. The only way to save lives is to call to account those who would cynically exploit the threat of terrorism for political and financial gain and take them out of the equation.
Blair has to go, and he has to go for the right reason.
Your vote can help to make it happen.... especially if you live in London.
(More on Iran here.)
New Statesman - Iran: don't let it happen: More than three years ago, as George Bush and Tony Blair rushed headlong into the invasion of Iraq, Martin Bright, then at the Observer, tested the veracity of an e-mail passed to him and his colleagues anonymously, while I nervously waited to see if the contents would appear in a newspaper. The e-mail, which the paper duly published, contained details of a bugging operation designed to coerce wavering members of the UN Security Council to vote for the use of force. It alerted the world to what I saw as scandalous dirty tricks within the United Nations... Now, we face the dreadful possibility of action against Iran. Jack Straw may sincerely believe that "the idea of a nuclear strike in Iran is completely nuts", but we in Britain need much more detailed information of the sort that Seymour Hersh and other journalists have been revealing if we are to avoid following the US into another disaster.
In other news...
SitNews - Bush discusses leak, dismisses attack on Iran: President Bush on Monday dismissed as "wild speculation" reports that his administration is weighing possible military air strikes against Iran to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons. On Iraq, Bush confirmed for the first time that he authorized the release of prewar classified intelligence about Iraq three years ago in a bid to influence public debate about his decision to invade the country in March 2003. White House press secretary Scott McClellan denied that Bush had politicized the intelligence on Iraq by authorizing its release to reporters. "The president had the authority to declassify information as he chooses," McClellen said. "He would never declassify anything if he felt it could compromise our nation's security."
Oh, really?
These people are playing games with the lives of millions, here and abroad. The only way to save lives is to call to account those who would cynically exploit the threat of terrorism for political and financial gain and take them out of the equation.
Blair has to go, and he has to go for the right reason.
Your vote can help to make it happen.... especially if you live in London.
(More on Iran here.)
posted by Tim at 9:51 AM
3 Comments:
You blind fool! Tony Blair is the only man who can moderate Bush and keep him out of Iran and you want to get rid of him!!!!?
Daily Mail: Can Blair hold back the neo-cons?
No one is going to defend fundamentalist Iran and its hardline leaders. But even more frightening are the trigger-happy Neo-Conservative zealots who still hold sway in the White House and who seem to have learnt nothing from the Iraq debacle. At times like this, the US needs a candid friend. Hersh reports that Tony Blair is seen as a 'wild card' and without his backing Mr Bush would hold back.
If you really wanted to save lives you would do everything you could to support our democratically elected leader instead of campaigning for the Libs or the Tories or the BNP or whatever it is that your doing.
So your plan is to sit back and wait for a repeat of this?
"Now, wait... wait just a minute... hang on... oh, go on, then."
just thought this might be relevent... http://www.sibernews.com/the-news/world-news/is-doomsday-coming-for-u.s.-forces-in-iraq?-200604134189/
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