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CrossTalk: Arrest Blair!
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‘Entire US ruling class responsible for Iraq war’
The occupation of Iraq launched a decade ago was “animplementation of the idea to create of a mono-polar world,” saidPushkov, the head of the State Duma Committee in InternationalAffairs.A successful war in the republic was supposed to set up exactlythat kind of world. “However, the plan failed,” the MP told a plenary sessionon Wednesday.On May 1, 2003, then-US President George W. Bush got aboardaircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, returned from a combatoperation in the Persian Gulf, to deliver his historic speech.Standing underneath a ‘Mission Accomplished’ banner, heannounced:“Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle ofIraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.”That day can be considered “the beginning of the end” of themono-polar world, Pushkov stated.“In fact, the mission had failed. But Bush did not know thatyet,” he added. The US had suffered “a colossalpolitical defeat” in Iraq, which was getting more obvious with thepassage of time,” the lawmaker observed. “Iraq haspractically become a second Vietnam.”First goal, then groundsYet another conclusion that can be made following the Iraq Waris that the American leadership first sets a political goal andonly afterwards brings grounds for it.“In other words, a casus belli can be created if the decisionon that very war has already been made,” Pushkov announced.“The entire war in Iraq was based on huge lie.”Back in 2003, American officials as well as ‘free’ Americanmedia kept spreading lies about Iraq possessing huge storages ofweapon of mass destruction. Across the Atlantic, British PM Tony Blair – “who is considereda war criminal by many in the UK” – was claiming in the parliamentthat “Iraqi rockets could reach London in 45 minutes and stave itto splinters ,” Pushkov recalled.However, following a 15-month search after the invasion,Washington had to admit that Saddam Hussein’s regime did notpossess the illegal stockpiles which the US and the UK had used asa justification for going to war. Mono-polar world is global dictatorshipThe Iraq War has revealed that “the doctrine of the humanrights protection” is also used for certain political purposes,stated Pushkov. The gap between human rights slogans and Iraqireality was “particularly striking” during the occupation of therepublic.At least 134,000 Iraqi civilians are estimated to have died inthe conflict, according to the Costs of War Project by the WatsonInstitute for International Studies at Brown University. However,some researchers say that the number of casualties could be fourtimes that number.Out of an Iraqi Christian population of 1.4 million, only about140,000 remain in the country, while others had to emigrate, findrefuge in other states or were killed, according to the Russianofficial.“All that is a direct consequence of the Americanaggression,” he stated. However, the American leadership nevermentions it: these victims are considered “collateral damage” ofthe operation to establish democracy in the country, Pushkovnoted.The Iraq War has made it evident that “a mono-polar world isnot a global democracy, but a global dictatorship,” set upusing military means.For Moscow, one of the main conclusions to draw from the war isthat “it is necessary to maintain balance in the modernworld,” Pushkov announced. “Russia, as one of the importantpoles of the nascent multi-polar world, carries specialresponsibility for that,” he added. … Read More
Situation in Iraq ‘much worse’ than decade ago
A series of attacks in Baghdad have left dozens dead and arounda hundred injured as the country marks 10 years since the start ofthe US-led campaign. The war didn’t bring anything but destructionand grief to Iraq, believes Tariq Ali.RT: Ten years on from the US-led invasion are thingsbetter or worse for the people of Iraq?Tariq Ali: Much, much worse – I don’t think there is anydoubt about that. Those of us who warned before the US, Britain andtheir allies went in that this would be the result, proved right.Now we have declassified information coming out saying that theneo-cons, who were running the US at the time, wanted Iraqi oil.They were annoyed it was still nationalized and they wanted toprivatize it. This is now a well-known fact. No one challengesit.So all the guff about weapons of mass destruction we now know, assome of us said at the time, that the intelligence agencies of theUS and Britain themselves are not convinced about that. They wouldbe forced and pressured by politicians to prettify the information,to give them an excuse. This has all come out and no one has beentried for lying, for war crimes.So we have these double standards going and the figures given inthe Western press between 120 to 150,000 people killed – it’sgrotesque. The government, put into place by the occupationthemselves, say that there are 5 million orphans in Iraq.RT: Britain’s former Prime Minister Tony Blair says theinvasion got rid of a tyrant – is that not sufficientjustification?TA: Of course, the people of Iraq didn’t have democracy,they were ruled by a one-party state – that is absolutely true. Buttheir living conditions were better not just in Baghdad but inother cities as well despite the sanctions, which were meant tocrush them and which led to the death of over 500,000 childrenbecause medicines were denied to them even before the war.The attempt to crush Iraq had been going for a long time. Butdespite that the social infrastructure was repaired after the FirstGulf War, medical, educational facilities were functioning, therewere food subsidies so people weren’t starving.Compared to what is going on now the social situation was muchbetter. Politically what we now see it the occupying powers comingin and doing what imperialism does all the time – dividing rule,creating huge divide by giving the Shi’ite clerical parties totalbar, destroying the old state completely and the result is what wesee on the street today. RT:Has the West failed to learn from Iraq, given thatit’s since meddled in conflicts in North Africa and the Middle East- such as Libya and Syria? TA:They certainly have. I mean, what they did in Libya on aminor scale was not that different from Iraq. Here they were evenmore hypocritical because they had been treating [Muammar] Gaddafias a world statesman, he had been giving money to politicians,governments, institutions in Britain, France, the US and elsewhere.But suddenly they saw an opportunity to privatize Libyan oil andthey went in. With NATO bombing Libyan cities for six months westill have no casualty figures.As for Syria, massively the open intervention was stopped, but thesituation there is pretty grim. So they learnt no lessons at all.The great empires of the world act only in their interests, not theinterests of people they invade or occupy. History teaches usthat. … Read More
Twenty Lies About the Iraq War
Falsehoods ranging from exaggeration to plain untruth were used to make the case for war. More lies are being used in the aftermath … Read More
Forført til krig
DR-dokumentar om Irakkrigen giver ny indsigt i, hvordan Bush, Blair og Fogh for ti år siden forførte verden til at gå i krig mod den irakiske diktator Saddam Hussein … Read More
Second Grader Suspended for Pretending to Save the World
7 year old Alex was suspended from Mary Blair Elementary School in Loveland, CO for playing an imaginary game that he calls “rescue the world”. … Read More
