tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7713282434144514700.post3288883583964937571..comments2023-10-02T15:01:43.213+01:00Comments on Chilcot's Cheating Us: A Petition to have Tony Blair tried for war crimes - Is it well founded?Andrew Watthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03829322263100808179noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7713282434144514700.post-16859808390045937032010-05-08T13:23:21.732+01:002010-05-08T13:23:21.732+01:00http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx
http://ica...http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx<br /><br />http://icasualties.org/oef/<br /><br />The smelly 9-11 World Trade Center demolitions: 1193 architectural and engineering professionals and 8053 other supporters including A&E students have signed the petition demanding of Congress a truly independent investigation.<br /><br /> http://cms.ae911truth.org/James Delaneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12712477536184493283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7713282434144514700.post-72420977126983985742010-05-08T13:12:01.422+01:002010-05-08T13:12:01.422+01:00The secret Downing Street memo
http://www.informat...The secret Downing Street memo<br />http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8709.htmJames Delaneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12712477536184493283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7713282434144514700.post-82898322256263761162010-05-08T13:10:47.914+01:002010-05-08T13:10:47.914+01:00The secret Downing Street memo (23 July 2002):
Quo...The secret Downing Street memo (23 July 2002):<br />Quotes:<br />"C reported on his recent talks in Washington. There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. The NSC had no patience with the UN route, and no enthusiasm for publishing material on the Iraqi regime's record. There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action."<br />"The Foreign Secretary said he would discuss this with Colin Powell this week. It seemed clear that Bush had made up his mind to take military action, even if the timing was not yet decided. But the case was thin. Saddam was not threatening his neighbours, and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran. We should work up a plan for an ultimatum to Saddam to allow back in the UN weapons inspectors. This would also help with the legal justification for the use of force.<br /><br />The Attorney-General said that the desire for regime change was not a legal base for military action. There were three possible legal bases: self-defence, humanitarian intervention, or UNSC authorisation. The first and second could not be the base in this case. Relying on UNSCR 1205 of three years ago would be difficult."James Delaneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12712477536184493283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7713282434144514700.post-2057731525062875072010-05-07T21:50:08.357+01:002010-05-07T21:50:08.357+01:00We must remember the exchange on CBS between [Bill...We must remember the exchange on CBS between [Bill Clinton’s ugly little Zionist (racist) Secretary of State] Madeleine Albright, who was then the US ambassador to the United Nations, and Lesley Stahl of CBS in a Sixty Minutes interview on 12 May 1996. Albright was maintaining that sanctions had yielded important concessions from Saddam Hussein.<br /><br />Stahl: "We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And you know, is the price worth it?"<br /><br />Albright: "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price.. we think the price is worth it."<br /><br />They read that exchange in the Middle East. It was infamous all over the Arab world.James Delaneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12712477536184493283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7713282434144514700.post-89086402744836660492010-05-07T21:47:41.036+01:002010-05-07T21:47:41.036+01:00British Medical Journal 1995:
Iraq sanctions lead...British Medical Journal 1995:<br /><br />Iraq sanctions lead to half a million child deaths <br />http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/311/7019/1523<br /> <br />Economic sanctions imposed on Iraq since the ending of the Gulf war have been responsible for the deaths of more than half a million children, according to a new study. The study also shows that severe malnutrition is widespread among children in the capital city of Baghdad.James Delaneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12712477536184493283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7713282434144514700.post-2715141541685789552010-05-07T21:45:35.145+01:002010-05-07T21:45:35.145+01:00Over one million Iraqis have met violent deaths as...Over one million Iraqis have met violent deaths as a result of the <br />2003 invasion, according to a study conducted by the prestigious <br />British polling group, Opinion Research Business (ORB). These numbers <br />suggest that the invasion and occupation of Iraq rivals the mass <br />killings of the last century—the human toll exceeds the 800,000 to <br />900,000 believed killed in the Rwandan genocide in 1994, and is <br />approaching the number (1.7 million) who died in Cambodia's <br />infamous "Killing Fields" during the Khmer Rouge era of the 1970s.<br /><br />http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/1-over-one-<br />million-iraqi-deaths-caused-by-us-occupation/James Delaneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12712477536184493283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7713282434144514700.post-26667541433546820352010-05-07T21:43:17.662+01:002010-05-07T21:43:17.662+01:00Please circulate online petition far and wide:
...Please circulate online petition far and wide:<br /><br /> "BlairFoundation.Wordpress.Com - To bring Tony Blair to trial for war crimes"<br /><br />hosted on the web by PetitionOnline.com, the free online petition<br />service, at:<br /><br /> http://www.PetitionOnline.com/BWCF/James Delaneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12712477536184493283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7713282434144514700.post-51914683304507333042010-05-07T21:41:24.004+01:002010-05-07T21:41:24.004+01:00Blair would unquestionably have been hung at Nurem...Blair would unquestionably have been hung at Nuremberg according to the standards and procedures adopted by the Americans, British, French and Russians at the time. For him to be effectively shielded by the Labour Party and legal establishment is not only a disgrace but an eyeopening indication of what international law actually means.James Delaneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12712477536184493283noreply@blogger.com