Friday, June 20, 2003
It looks like Tony will take the hit.
Last month, President Bush startled observers by saying on Polish TV: "We've found the weapons of mass destruction. You know, we found biological laboratories . . . . And we'll find more weapons as time goes on. But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong. We found them."
Bush was referring to two mobile units that the CIA had concluded were designed to manufacture biological substances. George's speech writer creatively managed the phrases "manufacturing devices or banned weapons" in one sentence, his comments nicely fuzzed up what he meant by saying, "We found them."
An official British investigation into the two trailers found in northern Iraq has concluded that they are not mobile germ warfare labs, as was claimed by Tony Blair and President George Bush. They were for the production of hydrogen to fill artillery balloons, just like the Iraqis have been saying all along.
This is one more very big embarrassment for Tony Blair, who supported George Bush's claimed that the discovery of the labs proved that Iraq retained weapons of mass destruction and justified the case for going to war against Saddam Hussein.
The revelation that the mobile labs were to produce hydrogen for artillery balloons is especially embarrassing for Tony Blair, because Iraqi's so called "mobil weapons labs" were sold to Iraq, by the British company, Marconi Command & Control to make hydrogen for weather balloons.
Al Capone has been rumored to have said "It pays to have a judge in your pocket". The Bush presidency has expounded on that saying, in a huge way. He controls the Senate, the House, the Justice department and the Intelligence agencies. He has such a stranglehold, on our judicial process that he can determine the kind of investigation that can take place. So, the question over how much he knew prior to invading Iraq is mute. The question is, does Tony have as many judges in his pocket as George?
Many of the lies, and maybe Bush's presidency may start to unravel. It will begin off the American coast, beyond Bush's neo-con's long arm of control; England's judiciary system.
According to some British publications, the Iraq war is the most important "defining moment" in British history since the Suez War of 1956. It is even possible Prime Minister Tony Blair will eventually be forced to resign, just as Anthony Eden resigned after the Suez debacle. The former Labour cabinet minister Lord Dennis Healy has said Blair should resign if he is shown to have been wrong over weapons of mass destruction.
The controversy over the war on Iraq is intensifying daily, particularly with the failure so far of the coalition forces to find weapons of mass destruction. Former foreign minister Robin Cook, who resigned from his cabinet position as leader of the House of Commons in protest at the war, has said the government clearly sent troops into battle on the basis "of a mistake" and that it had committed a "monumental blunder."
There are growing suspicions that the British and U.S. governments manipulated and exaggerated the intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction before the war.
The failure to find weapons of mass destruction is of particular significance in Britain. The idea of going to war was very unpopular among the public as shown by the anti-war demonstrations by around 1.5 million people in London on February 15, the biggest demonstration in Britain's history.
Blair stated that the threat posed by Saddam's weapons of mass destruction was his main justification for going to war. Weapons of mass destruction were also the basis on which the attorney general advised the government that the war was legal.
Blair won, the parliamentary vote on going to war, which followed the debate on 18 March.
139 Labour members of parliament voting against the motion. Some Labour members who had opposed war decided to support the government in the vote because of the evidence Blair presented on weapons of mass destruction. It has been said that many of those that voted for the war now feel betrayed and regret supporting the war.
The war has damaged Britain's standing in the Middle East.
The stakes over Iraq are very high, for Blair; he has gambled his political future on it. His credibility is being damaged by current allegations over the intelligence on the weapons of mass destruction, newspaper articles. There are already daily cartoons in the papers, portraying him as being untrustworthy. This is extremely serious, if Blair loses the trust of many in his own party, and among the public, no one will believe anything he and his government tells them, and he may be out of a job.
There will be investigations by two committees in parliament - the intelligence and security committee, and the other by Foreign Affairs Committee. The Foreign Affairs Committee has asked both Blair and his powerful director of strategy and communications Alastair Campbell to give evidence, but they appear to have refused to do so. This refusal is seen as arrogant and as strengthening the impression that they have something to hide.
The Conservatives are calling for an independent enquiry and backed a motion from the Liberal Democrats in the House of Commons calling for an independent judicial enquiry, but the motion was defeated by 301 votes to 203.
Blair faces a growing chorus of attacks from Labour members of parliament and from former members of the government who resigned over Iraq. A number of junior ministers joined Robin Cook in resigning before the war, and on 12 May Clare Short, the former secretary of state for International Development, resigned. She has launched a series of allegations against Blair, including that he secretly agreed with Bush at their meeting at Camp David last September to go to war, something Blair has strongly denied.
There are more and more people asking for answers. My money is on the British people. They will draw first blood, the Bush administration may get a glancing blow.
Perhaps it will only take a glancing blow to wake the American people up.
Last month, President Bush startled observers by saying on Polish TV: "We've found the weapons of mass destruction. You know, we found biological laboratories . . . . And we'll find more weapons as time goes on. But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong. We found them."
Bush was referring to two mobile units that the CIA had concluded were designed to manufacture biological substances. George's speech writer creatively managed the phrases "manufacturing devices or banned weapons" in one sentence, his comments nicely fuzzed up what he meant by saying, "We found them."
An official British investigation into the two trailers found in northern Iraq has concluded that they are not mobile germ warfare labs, as was claimed by Tony Blair and President George Bush. They were for the production of hydrogen to fill artillery balloons, just like the Iraqis have been saying all along.
This is one more very big embarrassment for Tony Blair, who supported George Bush's claimed that the discovery of the labs proved that Iraq retained weapons of mass destruction and justified the case for going to war against Saddam Hussein.
The revelation that the mobile labs were to produce hydrogen for artillery balloons is especially embarrassing for Tony Blair, because Iraqi's so called "mobil weapons labs" were sold to Iraq, by the British company, Marconi Command & Control to make hydrogen for weather balloons.
Al Capone has been rumored to have said "It pays to have a judge in your pocket". The Bush presidency has expounded on that saying, in a huge way. He controls the Senate, the House, the Justice department and the Intelligence agencies. He has such a stranglehold, on our judicial process that he can determine the kind of investigation that can take place. So, the question over how much he knew prior to invading Iraq is mute. The question is, does Tony have as many judges in his pocket as George?
Many of the lies, and maybe Bush's presidency may start to unravel. It will begin off the American coast, beyond Bush's neo-con's long arm of control; England's judiciary system.
According to some British publications, the Iraq war is the most important "defining moment" in British history since the Suez War of 1956. It is even possible Prime Minister Tony Blair will eventually be forced to resign, just as Anthony Eden resigned after the Suez debacle. The former Labour cabinet minister Lord Dennis Healy has said Blair should resign if he is shown to have been wrong over weapons of mass destruction.
The controversy over the war on Iraq is intensifying daily, particularly with the failure so far of the coalition forces to find weapons of mass destruction. Former foreign minister Robin Cook, who resigned from his cabinet position as leader of the House of Commons in protest at the war, has said the government clearly sent troops into battle on the basis "of a mistake" and that it had committed a "monumental blunder."
There are growing suspicions that the British and U.S. governments manipulated and exaggerated the intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction before the war.
The failure to find weapons of mass destruction is of particular significance in Britain. The idea of going to war was very unpopular among the public as shown by the anti-war demonstrations by around 1.5 million people in London on February 15, the biggest demonstration in Britain's history.
Blair stated that the threat posed by Saddam's weapons of mass destruction was his main justification for going to war. Weapons of mass destruction were also the basis on which the attorney general advised the government that the war was legal.
Blair won, the parliamentary vote on going to war, which followed the debate on 18 March.
139 Labour members of parliament voting against the motion. Some Labour members who had opposed war decided to support the government in the vote because of the evidence Blair presented on weapons of mass destruction. It has been said that many of those that voted for the war now feel betrayed and regret supporting the war.
The war has damaged Britain's standing in the Middle East.
The stakes over Iraq are very high, for Blair; he has gambled his political future on it. His credibility is being damaged by current allegations over the intelligence on the weapons of mass destruction, newspaper articles. There are already daily cartoons in the papers, portraying him as being untrustworthy. This is extremely serious, if Blair loses the trust of many in his own party, and among the public, no one will believe anything he and his government tells them, and he may be out of a job.
There will be investigations by two committees in parliament - the intelligence and security committee, and the other by Foreign Affairs Committee. The Foreign Affairs Committee has asked both Blair and his powerful director of strategy and communications Alastair Campbell to give evidence, but they appear to have refused to do so. This refusal is seen as arrogant and as strengthening the impression that they have something to hide.
The Conservatives are calling for an independent enquiry and backed a motion from the Liberal Democrats in the House of Commons calling for an independent judicial enquiry, but the motion was defeated by 301 votes to 203.
Blair faces a growing chorus of attacks from Labour members of parliament and from former members of the government who resigned over Iraq. A number of junior ministers joined Robin Cook in resigning before the war, and on 12 May Clare Short, the former secretary of state for International Development, resigned. She has launched a series of allegations against Blair, including that he secretly agreed with Bush at their meeting at Camp David last September to go to war, something Blair has strongly denied.
There are more and more people asking for answers. My money is on the British people. They will draw first blood, the Bush administration may get a glancing blow.
Perhaps it will only take a glancing blow to wake the American people up.
# posted by Thomas @ 1:10 AM 
