Sir John Chilcot's two million word Report about whether or not Tony Blair or his government is responsible in some legal or ethical way for the Iraq Invasion categorically says that the intelligence services 'evidence' for Saddam's WMD's was overstated.
But you see, someone needs to explain the death of Dr. David Kelly. The Hutton Inquiry was about his death, but at the time it was not set up to deal with the substance of Kelly's actual infamy, namely that he accused the spying agencies of sexing up the evidence about WMD's.
Everybody knew what the 'story' with Dr. Kelly was - it was that he was a whistle-blower about the faked WMD intelligence. And that 'story' caused there to be an official inquiry into how he might have died... LOL.
Let's blame the Russians! - hint: it wasn't the Russians... |
He was murdered. It's simple as that.
Or well, maybe he wasn't murdered because Hutton never found there was conclusive evidence that he was murdered. Same way though, that there was conclusive evidence of course that Saddam had WMD's. Ha! What a laugh.
But Chilcot DID find that Blair overstated the case for war with Saddam for no valid reasons...
Okay so then why did Blair ignore or dismiss Kelly's complaints? What is the reason today, that Tony Blair gives for his not having taken any note of what Kelly was saying back then?
He's not given any reason, because he has not been asked. Two million words and not one question about this crucial item.
Why, if Blair was aware of charges of falsity over the 'evidence' about WMD's at the time did he justify using the WMD's as the excuse for war. At least Chilcot has the decency to say this critical point: 'war was not the last resort in this case.'
No indeed it was not! For of course, we all know it was the first resort; the main resort, and the only resort.
You see it's not really open for Blair to say 'I misjudged;' for he made a decision based on knowingly potentially false information. He knew that Dr Kelly was raising objections about the veracity of the information. He didn't misjudge anything. He blotted out the contrary information, he obscured it, he deliberately disregarded it, and ultimately, someone killed off the officer waving the flag about it.
So - do you think everyone in the UK upper echelons and the elite are 'okay' with this? Do you think 'M' of James Bond fiction would just 'turn a blind eye?'
I'd have a 'Jill Bond' or a 'Jane Bond' in this saga, and she would have a car like this, above. There'd still be a 'James Bond' too. There'd be both. It's a modern world, you know. |
No, certainly not. 'M' might well ask if there was something behind the war escapade besides just plain stupidity and the weapons industry lobby.
He might resort initially to Katherine Graham's UN Commission Report of the 1980's into Western industrial involvement inside Iraq in illegal weapons and arms manufacturing.
And he might consult actual people inside say, the German chemical industry, and heavy machinery industries, to find out the 'inside skinny' on what was going on (that is to say, if he didn't already know).
Lord West - he's a top man |
Now see if I were running the UK government (LOL!) I would quickly move to have (retired) Admiral Lord West head MI6 right away. And Lord West, not being a Conservative, might easily decide to take an axe to the Department and throw out all those who had been installed inside there from recommendations and support from so-called 'allies and partners' with a lot of money and pull and who fund and push their own people through higher academic degrees to make impression on the recruiters at these places.
And if I were not running the UK government, and I were Lord West, and knew what was going on all the same - as he does do - then it would tempting to have some zillionaire benefactor help me pull together a private 'think tank' or 'institute for the advancement of...' And personally, I would be recruiting people from ex the Black Watch and the Coldstream Guard and this kind of thing, or World Champion athletes, perhaps from the Martial Arts or at least certainly of World Competition Class. And the purpose of this organization would be to go and ask the questions that political Inquiries don't, and to find out the unbiased truth - as most government inquiries do not either.
And I would make those Reports very very public indeed. With the zillionaire's money of course.
And I can tell you right now I know where our new 'W' would send his agents and get them to look.
And boy would you find some 'skeletons' and some dead bodies buried away!
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