2003 Iraq War
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Official Narrative
Saddam Hussein is a bad man. Humanitarian intervention.
Legal Status
This was heavily spun but the war was basically a war of aggression, the supreme international war crime.
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| David Aaronovitch | “If nothing is eventually found, I – as a supporter of the war – will never believe another thing that I am told by our government, or that of the US ever again. And, more to the point, neither will anyone else. Those weapons had better be there somewhere.” | David Aaronovitch | |
| Jimmy Carter | “Nowadays, because of the unwarranted invasion of Iraq by Bush and Blair, which was a completely unjust adventure based on misleading statements, and the lack of any effort to resolve the Palestinian issue, [there is] massive Islamic condemnation of the United States. (...) (American media organisations), have been cowed, because they didn't want to be unpatriotic. There has been a lack of inquisitive journalism. In fact, it's hard to think of a major medium in the United States that has been objective and fair and balanced, and critical when criticism was deserved” | Jimmy Carter | 2004 |
| Midge Decter | “We're not in the Middle East to bring sweetness and light to the world. We're there to get something we and our friends in Europe depend on. Namely, oil.” | Midge Decter | 21 May 2004 |
| Jörg Haider | “Asked about the impression that Saddam is better for him than Bush, Haider said: "The choice is really hard for me. Both have been at war with international law and committed human rights violations. The one is lucky enough to command a world power, hence the power to write the laws, while the other has been a weak dictator"” | Jörg Haider | |
| Money laundering | “Beginning in the very earliest days of the war in Iraq, the New York Federal Reserve shipped billions of dollars in physical cash to Baghdad to pay for the reopening of the government and restoration of basic services.
The money was packed onto pallets inside a heavily guarded New York Federal Reserve compound in East Rutherford, New Jersey, trucked to Andrews Air Force Base outside of Washington, and flown by military aircraft to Baghdad International Airport. By one account, the New York Fed shipped about $40 billion in cash between 2003 and 2008. In just the first two years, the shipments included more than 281 million individual bills weighing a total of 363 tons. But soon after the money arrived in the chaos of war-torn Baghdad, the paper trail documenting who controlled it all began to go cold.” | Eamon Javers | 25 October 2011 |
| Petrodollar | “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.” | Alan Greenspan | 2007 |
| Rendon Group | “"Did you ever stop to wonder," Rendon later remarked, "how the people of Kuwait City, after being held hostage for seven long and painful months, were able to get hand-held American — and, for that matter, the flags of other coalition countries?" After a pause, he added, "Well, you now know the answer. That was one of my jobs then."” | James Bamford | 17 November 2005 |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Cabinet Office Briefing Paper 21 July 2002 | briefing paper | 12 June 2005 | Generated for participants for the secret meeting of Blair’s inner circle on July 23, 2002, this classified paper states that since regime change was illegal it was "necessary to create the conditions" which would make it legal. The last page is missing. | |
| Document:Former MI6 chief behind faked “evidence” for Iraq war leading anti-China Wuhan lab conspiracy | Article | 10 June 2021 | Julie Hyland | President Biden's intelligence service order relating to the Wuhan lab leak theory was issued the same day that Prime Minister Boris Johnson's former chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, gave evidence before a parliamentary committee in which he confirmed a government policy to allow tens of thousands to die from Covid-19. |
| Document:Gaddafi's 2009 speech: "Let's call it the UN Terror Council" | Speech | 23 September 2009 | Muammar Gaddafi | No one is above the UN General Assembly. All nations should be and should be seen to be on an equal footing. At present, the UN Security Council is security feudalism, political feudalism for those with permanent seats, protected by them and used against us. It should be called, not the UN Security Council, but the UN Terror Council. |
| Document:Guilt by Association | Book | 2008 | Jeff Gates | A copiously referenced account of the extent to which Zionist Israeli interests have taken effective control of the US state, their methodology and their responsibility for taking America to war in Iraq in 2003 |
| Document:How British journalists are seduced by the Ministry of Defence and spooks | Article | 28 September 2021 | Richard Norton-Taylor | In the world of the spooks, few in the media raised questions about the root causes of terror attacks in Britain even when Eliza Manningham-Buller, then head of MI5, warned that the invasion of Iraq would increase the terrorist threat in Britain. |
| Document:Manning Memo 14 March 2002 | memo | 14 March 2002 | David Manning | |
| Document:Peter Ricketts Memo 22 March 2002 | memo | 22 March 2002 | Peter Ricketts | |
| Document:Sanitising the Iraq War | article | 6 July 2016 | Jonathon Shafi | The full horror of what Blair unleashed will never be truly understood in the West. And, internationally the full consequences of this war are still to be felt. As the sister of a soldier killed in Iraq said: “There is one terrorist in this world and his name is Tony Blair.” |
| Document:Striving to Make Sense of the Ukraine War | blog post | 4 April 2022 | Craig Murray | These things can be true at the same time: a) The Russian invasion of Ukraine is illegal: Putin is a war criminal; b) The US led invasion of Iraq was illegal: Blair and Bush are war criminals. |
| Document:Suffer the little children | Article | 12 November 2012 | Susie Boniface | Nine years ago the BBC was at the centre of another frenzy when it similarly accused the government of misleading the public. Only then it wasn't child abuse, it was starting a war after publicly stating our enemy could launch chemical weapons within 45 minutes of the order being given. |
| Document:The Death of David Kelly and the "Sexed Up" WMD Report | article | 21 February 2008 | Stephen Frost David Halpin Christopher Burns-Cox Paul Brandon | |
| Document:The Man Who Sold the War | Wikispooks Page | 17 November 2005 | James Bamford | |
| Document:The Woman who nearly Stopped the War | article | 19 March 2008 | Martin Bright | In January 2003 Katharine Gun, a translator at GCHQ, learned something so outrageous that she sacrificed her career to tell the truth. Martin Bright on a brave deed that should not be forgotten. |
| Document:The Word We Dare Not Speak | article | 24 February 2011 | John Pilger | |
| Document:The bloody legacy of Bomber Blair | Article | 1 January 2022 | Alex Snowdon | "Petition for Tony Blair to have his 'Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter' rescinded" Such an honour rests upon expecting us to conveniently forget or ignore the enormous damage that Blair did. People are right to be angry. |
| Document:We Are The Bad Guys | blog post | 12 August 2024 | Craig Murray | In the United Kingdom it falls to the Celtic nations to try to break up the state which is a subordinate but important imperialist engine. The paths of resistance are various, depending where you are. But find one and take one. |
| File:PSR Body Count.pdf | report | 15 March 2015 | IPPNW | Casualty figures for the 'War on Terror' after 10 years |
| Document:Saddam Hussain message to the people of Iraq | letter | 30 December 2006 | Saddam Hussein | |
| Document:Saddam Hussein letter to the American People | letter | 7 July 2006 | Saddam Hussein |
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