The British government has invested a lot of effort into a four-year-long inquiry into the Iraq War headed by Sir John Chilcot, but the report never seems to come out. Diplomatic sources are now saying that this is because of explicit US orders, and that the report, if released at all, may end up heavily redacted at the Obama Administration’s insistence.
A major portion of the inquiry centered on then-Prime Minister Tony Blair lying Britain into war, and therefore focuses on the pre-war plotting by Blair and then-US President George W. Bush.
That’s apparently the rub, with the US government insisting all of those conversations, and even just Tony Blair’s part, are adjacent to a US president and therefore the property of the US government, which has decided everything is classified.
The argument is that neither Chilcot nor anyone else in the British government has the authority to decide which of the documents can be published, so instead they’re just letting the Obama Administration dictate terms, and that means everything is secret.
According to reports from the inquiry, Blair and Bush began plotting the Iraq War just weeks after Bush’s inauguration in 2001, and at the time the British government decided it was “illegal,” though they eventually launched the war anyhow in 2003.
Ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s earning power has hit astonishing new heights when he pocketed more than £150,000 (Dh880,531) for only an hour’s work.
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Ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s earning power has hit astonishing new heights when he pocketed more than £150,000 (Dh880,531) for only an hour’s work.
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They must be war criminals themselves and perhaps engaged hitler and his cohorts too.
A Criminal enterprise set upon the Iraqi people murdered 1million destroyed the world`s oldest civilization it will eventually come out and all the war criminals will have to do as the Nazis did to themselves,
There isn't a single one of them, one either side of the pond, who has the stones to do that to themselves. They're better adapted to ordering others to "take the honorable way" as we already know not a one of them has any honor themselves.
Impunity! The war criminals enjoy their impunity and the notion is galling.
Obama failed to prosecute. That was bad, a serious breach of his promise to clean things up.
This is a new low, active cover-up.
I almost choked when I read this: "The argument is that neither Chilcot nor anyone else in the British government has the authority to decide which of the documents can be published". So the US government has more authority than the UK government IN THE UK over documents in the possession of the UK government? Has the world gone mad? Are you listening people of the UK? The colonizer has become the colonial subject. Rise up. Where is your Paul Revere? Your Tom Paine? Your Ben Franklin?
I remember an interview with Condoleeza Rice just after 9/11 in which she warned Sadaam Husein not to try anything preemptively whilst Bush'a attention was diverting towards attacking Afghanistan.
At the time the statement sounded odd but it all adds up given the planning already under way for an Iraq invasion.
Someone please leak these documents!
"they’re just letting the Obama Administration dictate terms, and that means everything is secret."
Everyone needs to follow Justin Raimondo's lead and stop referring to it as the "administration" and start referring to it as the "regime", as other criminal government are referred to. This applies to all previous US regimes, too.
For example: Arrest everyone in the Obama regime.