New charge undermines Blair claims on Iraq war

[cal04]

Fresh evidence has come to light suggesting that Tony Blair committed himself to war in Iraq nearly a year before the American and British assault in March 2003. The news will heighten the pressure on the Prime Minister to reveal how Britain was drawn into the conflict, in a week when a leading QC has called into question the legal advice on which the Government went to war. Such anxiety is felt in official circles that Special Branch detectives had questioned MPs over leaks, it emerged this weekend.

Downing Street has consistently refused to disclose the date on which Mr Blair promised George Bush that Britain would join the US in an invasion of Iraq. But evidence obtained by the IoS suggests that it was as early as April 2002, when the Prime Minister met President Bush at his ranch in Crawford, Texas.

A ruling by the Parliamentary Ombudsman, seen by the IoS, says the Government sought advice about the legality of a possible invasion of Iraq in the spring of 2002 as the result of "statements made in a particular press release".
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=615232

The Crawford Deal: did Blair sign up for war at Bush's Texas ranch in April 2002?
We know that arguments raged about the legality of the war right up to a crucial cabinet meeting on 17 March 2003, two days before the attack began. But now new evidence pieced together by the 'IoS' strongly backs the suspicion that the PM had already made the decision to strike a year earlier. By Raymond Whitaker

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=615231

[ladjf]

1. The tight connections between the Bush criminal enterprise

and the British Government including the crown and intelligence has been known for years. This unholy alliance is more or less one large corporate type enterprise. I believe that Tony Blair was ordered to participate in the Iraq project. He and Bush are only the front men.

[cal04]

2. Publish Iraq War Legal Advice, Blair Told

Liberal Democrats today demanded the “immediate” publication of the legal advice on which the government went to war in Iraq.

The call came from deputy Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell, who declared: “Publish and be damned, yes – but don’t publish, and be damned even further.”

He went on: “I say, along with a mounting chorus of support, that the whole advice should now be published

“Nothing short of full disclosure will suffice.”

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4185999

[teryang]

3. Tommy Franks went to Fort Hood, Texas

...on a Sunday in April 2002. He actually appeared on MTP from Fort Hood. At that time, it was pretty obvious that the war was a lock. He went there to advise the III Corps and Divisional Commanders that they would be mobilizing.

His appearance on MTP was actually an operational security breach. Any analyst could figure it out.

[IndianaGreen]

4. Bush, Rumsfeld, Blair, Straw, Franks, et al, are all war criminals

and should be on trial at The Hague.

[omulcol]

5. Yep ... add

Cheney n Powell to the list and I'll vote on that too !!!

[robbedvoter]

6. "F* Saddam, he's going down!" -W was screaming it at the time

as noted in an article in Time

[emad]

7. "Alleged Pedophiles Helm Blair's War Room"

Blackout in Britain

Alleged Pedophiles Helm Blair's War Room
by MIKE JAMES

A child-sex scandal that threatened to destroy Tony Blair's government last week has been mysteriously squashed and wiped off the front pages of British newspapers. Operation Ore, the United Kingdom's most thorough and comprehensive police investigation of crimes against children, seems to have uncovered more than is politically acceptable at the highest reaches of the British elite. In the 19th of January edition of The Sunday Herald, Neil Mackay sensationally reported that senior members of Tony Blair's government were being investigated for paedophilia and the "enjoyment" of child-sex pornography:

"The Sunday Herald has also had confirmed by a very senior source in British intelligence that at least one high-profile former Labour Cabinet minister is among Operation Ore suspects. The Sunday Herald has been given the politician's name but, for legal reasons, can not identify the person.

There are still unconfirmed rumours that another senior Labour politician is among the suspects. The intelligence officer said that a 'rolling' Cabinet committee had been set up to work out how to deal with the potentially ruinous fall-out for both Tony Blair and the government if arrests occur."

The allegations are the most serious yet levelled at an administration that prides itself on the inclusion in its ranks of a high quota of controversial and flamboyant homosexual men, and whose First Lady, Cherie Blair, has come under the spotlight for her indulgence in pagan rituals that resemble Freemasonic rites. Unconfirmed information also suggests that the term "former Labour Cabinet minister" is misleading and that the investigation has identified a surprisingly large number of alleged paedophiles at the highest level of British government, including one very senior cabinet minister.

The Blair government has responded by imposing a comprehensive blackout on the story, effectively removing it from the domain of public discussion. Attempts on the part of this journalist to establish why the British media has not followed up on the revelations have met with a wall of silence. Editors and journalists of The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Sunday Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Daily Express, The Mirror, The Sun, the BBC, Independent Television News and even The Sunday Herald have refused to discuss the matter.

http://www.gaiaguys.net/OperationOre.htm

[candy331]

8. Sex scandal in the Whitehouse here too, seems Blair and the Bush have more

in common than not.

[omulcol]

9. Only problem with this is

the news story is THREE YEARS OLD !

Emad, if you must provide links then provide the WHOLE link without deleting the date.

Thanks !
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Blackout in Britain

Alleged Pedophiles Helm Blair's War Room


by MIKE JAMES