Greg Brown's Weekend Reading and Other Things.. 11/29/2015
DEAR FRIEND.....
The Truth is Out
Newly Released Clinton Email Proves Bush & Blair Plotted Iraq War A Year Before Launching It
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For so many of our people in Congress who are lawyers, you would think that they would adhere to the old courtroom rule, "never ask a question that you don't know the answer" and as my grandmother would have said, "and don't be surprised to find a worm when turning over a stone." Well in their attempt to find embarrassing emails that might damage Hillary Clinton's Presidential chances — yes there was some astonishing details hidden in Hillary Clinton's emails —just not what the Republicans thought it was. Newly released information indicates that then-President George W. Bush had reached a secret deal with British Prime Minister Tony Blair to invade Iraq nearly a year before the invasion took place. A secret meeting took place in April 2002, where Colin Powell wrote that "He [Blair] will present to you the strategic, tactical and public affairs lines that he believes will strengthen global support for our common cause," Powell wrote, adding that the prime minister has the skills to "make a credible public case on current Iraqi threat to international peace," according to Newsmax.
It flies in the face of Blair's public declaration that he was attempting to find a diplomatic solution to the manufactured crisis. It also reveals Blair's collusion with the Department of Defense in fabricating and selling the evidence which convinced America that Saddam Hussein's regime had weapons of mass destruction (it didn't) and that they were involved in 9/11 and planning to strike America again (they weren't). Tony Blair, desperate for the United Kingdom to regain some of its influence in the global balance of power, went along with everything Bush asked him to, including creating the fake narrative that Saddam Hussein had an unmanned aerial vehicle program that could deliver a WMD "within 45 minutes."
It adds to the heaping mound of evidence that our nation was lied to, not just by our leader, but by those of our allies as well. The Iraq War will be remembered as one of the most catastrophic disasters both nation have ever brought upon themselves, the pinnacle of neoconservative arrogance and the hubris of American exceptionalism, preconceived even before 9/11 ever happened and organized to maximize the profits of defense contractors and fossil fuel companies like Vice President Dick Cheney's Halliburton, which made $39 billion in profits over the course of the conflict. George Bush has a lot to answer for; it now appears that Mr. Blair does as well. Aren't these the same clowns who went after Hillary two decades ago suggesting that she organized an improper/illegal $300,000 loan while working at the Rose Law Firm while her husband was Governor of Arkansas? Yet, tens of billions of non-bid contracts went to Bush's Vice President previously headed, should not be questioned. Sort of like Jeb Bush claiming that his brother kept America safe after 9/12, while saying nothing when his party went after Hillary Clinton over our American deaths in Benghazi. What hypocrites!!! And we are not just talking about just Bush and Blair...
Here Are Some Highlights
Why have these memos come out now?
The U.S. courts have ruled that 30,000 emails received by Hillary Clinton when she was U.S. Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013 should be released. She may have asked for these documents to grasp the background to the Iraq War.
What was the Crawford summit?
The meeting between Blair and Bush at the President's Texan ranch in April 2002, 11 months before the outbreak of war. The pair spent long periods discussing Iraq without their advisers, leading to suspicion that they privately cut a deal for the conflict. UK Ambassador Sir Christopher Meyer said it was impossible to know whether a deal was "signed in blood."
What did Blair say at Crawford?
At the start of the summit, Mr. Blair said: 'We're not proposing military action at this point in time.' For the whole of 2002, Blair claimed no decision had been taken and in the run-up to war. He said that Saddam Hussein could avoid conflict by co-operating with UN weapons inspectors.
What happened after Crawford?
In September 2002, in an attempt to prove Saddam was a threat, No 10 falsely claimed Saddam could deploy biological weapons 'within 45 minutes', and Mr. Blair went around the world trying to drum up UN backing for action against Iraq. Despite mass anti-war protests, Britain and America invaded Iraq in March 2003 without the backing of the UN.
Had the allies prepared for 'the day after'?
The invasion was declared complete on April 15, 2003. But the reason for war proved spurious, and Saddam's removal left a power vacuum filled by warring factions which some say helped Islamic State rise.
Have the memos been seen by the Chilcot Inquiry?
It is not thought the £10 million, six-year inquiry has asked to see American Government material.
The documents, which were obtained a month ago by The Mail, are part of a batch of secret emails held on the private server of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton which U.S. courts have forced her to reveal. Former Tory Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said: 'The memos prove in explicit terms what many of us have believed all along: Tony Blair effectively agreed to act as a frontman for American foreign policy in advance of any decision by the House of Commons or the British Cabinet. 'He was happy to launder George Bush's policy on Iraq and sub-contract British foreign policy to another country without having the remotest ability to have any real influence over it. And in return for what? 'For George Bush pretending Blair was a player on the world stage to impress voters in the UK when the Americans didn't even believe it themselves'. What a lackey Mr. Blair you were and are....
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