But in that case [when inspectors report failure], of course, regrettably, the war would become inevitable. It isn't today."

The prime example of what Clare short called the Prime Minister’s "honourable deception" to get us to war was the misrepresentation of the French attitude to military action against Iraq.

Blair had promised that he wouldn’t go to war without Security Council authorisation, or at least without a majority of the ...

"A simple way out would make sure, if there is a conflict, that in any post-conflict Iraq there is a proper UN mandate for Iraq and the oil goes into a trust fund. We don’t touch it and the Americans don’t touch it without UN authority."

Those were the Tony Blair’s words on MTV on 7 March prior to the invasion of Iraq. They were uttered to scotch what he called the absurd "conspiracy theory" that the US/UK wanted to get their hands on Iraqi ...

Iraq & Israel: Double Standards

Israel is in beach of around 30 Security Council resolutions that demand action by it, and it alone. Even the British Government admits that Iraq is in breach of a mere 9. Israel meets accusations of a double standard by asserting that the resolutions against Iraq are under Chapter VII of the UN Charter (which is true) and therefore binding, whereas those against Israel are under Chapter VI (which is true) ...

Iraq has pleaded Not Guilty to possessing weapons of self-defence, i. e. weapons of mass destruction. The American and British Governments have stated definitely that they know that it does possess weapons of mass destruction.
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Iraq's failure to list weapons of mass destruction in its 12,000 page list of its armaments therefore places it in breach of the latest Security Council Resolution in the eyes of the Ameranglian arbiters of ...

The threat of military force produced the unanimous Security Council Resolution on Iraq. Sir Jeremy Greenstock, British representative at the UN gave and interview to Radio 4 on November 9th in which he got away with saying that it was a threat of military force against Iraq which produced the Resolution. The BBC knows that it must earn its Propaganda Licence fee by suspending its critical faculties when affairs of state are at issue.
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As the time of writing, the US and Britain are pressing to get UN Security Council authorisation to make war on Iraq, war which this time will not end without the regime in Baghdad being overthrown.
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The original excuse for war - Iraq's alleged possession of non-conventional weapons, and its refusal to allow UN inspectors access to seek out and destroy them - disappeared on 16 September when the Iraqi Government offered UN inspectors ...

"War is the safer option"--It wasn't Blair who said that. But it was said by
the party that supports him in his drive for war. The Tory Party that is.
It is the headline on the Daily Telegraph editorial on 10th September.
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Blair has gone through a period of genuine anguish in recent times. He
desperately wants to do good in the world. He desperately wants to save the
world. But the world doesn't want to be saved. And the Party ...

On 6th March ITV broadcast a 90-minute programme, made by John Pilger for Carlton TV, on the effect on UN sanctions on the people of Iraq.
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According to the programme, around a half a million Iraqi children have died as a result of sanctions. This figure, which is an estimate of the World Health Organisation, has received wide publicity subsequently.
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The purpose of the sanctions, according to UN Security Council Resolution 687 ...

Madeleine Albright is losing patience—when she isn’t worrying about how long her job will last if the Presidential cocksuckers speak out. Robin Cook, too, is losing patience—when he can spare the time away from the problem of when a secretary, who is also a mistress, is a secretary, and when she is a mistress. Even little Derek Fatchett is losing patience—but there isn’t much going in his public life so he has plenty of time to work on the ...

So New Labour has been cheated out of its easy war and must make do with blustering.
The White Anglo Saxon Protestant world was all lined up to act in unison for the first time in more than half a century. The great Ameranglian alliance--Churchill's English Speaking Peoples--were poised to give the world a lead in the struggle against appeasement.
<p /> America, Britain, Canada, Australia stood alone before a hesitant world and were eager ...