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Soon, we will witness the 20th anniversary of the start of the first Gulf War. When the first bomb fell on Iraq at 2:00 a.m. on January 17, 1991, the United States began the military implementation of years of deceit and dirty tricks to attain a permanent foothold in the Middle East.
"Aftermath offers Rosen's vivid, and often shocking, reporting from some of the places the US "war on terror" is being fought - Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Egypt and Afghanistan. "
Under Saddam Hussein, women in government got a year's maternity leave; that is now cut to six months. Under the Personal Status Law in force since Jul. 14, 1958, when Iraqis overthrew the British-installed monarchy, Iraqi women had most of the rights that Western women do.
"On Friday, Tony Blair appeared before the "Chilcot Inquiry," the panel of hoary, lugubrious Establishment worthies set up to "examine" -- with extreme circumspection, exquisite politeness, and all due reverence to authority -- the "origins" of Britain's involvement in the mass-murder spree known as the invasion and occupation of Iraq. "
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The event could be summed up entirely in a single headline:
Tony Blair to a million dead Iraqis, and the grieving survivors of British soldiers: Fuck you. -
Blair's absolute erasure of the Iraqi people in these passages is a perfect encapsulation of the whole mindset that drove the Anglo-American attack: the Iraqis are non-people, they are worthless chits in a geopolitical game, they are rags and automatons at the mercy of big-time players like the Western powers, Iran and al Qaeda.
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"TONY Blair should be tried in a Scottish court for his decision to take the country to war in Iraq, according to a group of SNP MSPs."
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A parliamentary motion calling for Blair to be prosecuted has been laid down at Holyrood and has been signed by eight MSPs. It cites the verdict of a Dutch commission of judges earlier this month, which concluded that the United Nations resolution used to go to war in 2003 was insufficient to justify military action.
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The call is being led by MSP Bill Wilson, but an SNP spokeswoman confirmed last night that it "reflects the views many still hold" about the decision to take military action
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"For Tony Blair, reality is whatever he believes it to be, at whatever moment he chooses to believe it. One has to sift through a plethora of self-justifications, half-truths and finger-pointing to get to the truth, but it is there, if you look for it."
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His testimony proves, lest anyone had any doubt, that he has no regrets at all about the invasion of Iraq. He preferred to look forward, suggesting that, with Iraq out of the way (and don’t ask how many died, everyone in Iraq was much better off now), Britain would now have to turn its sights on other rogue nations, such as Iran.
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Blair told the inquiry that in the build-up to the invasion of Iraq he did not think that there were links between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein — though he feared that eventually there would be. He was not being truthful here: in 2003 he said: “It would not be correct to say there is no evidence linking al-Qaeda and Iraq.”
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there is another player that almost never gets mentioned in news accounts: the Israelis
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Whether the Israelis are working to sow discord, or, with the Americans, are trying to patch up the shaky federalist structure of the Iraqi state is a question that hardly requires much thought.
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