Tuesday, November 24, 2009

UK inquiry into Iraq war begins public hearings

The Iraq war inquiry's public hearings have begun in London with top civil servants and a former spy chief giving evidence on the conflict's origins.
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  1. Jemmy HopeNovember 24, 2009 at 11:41 AM

    "No-one is on trial here." Sir John Chilcott.
    Right, another waste of public money.

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  2. ananNovember 24, 2009 at 8:14 PM

    Don't know what the point of these is. Iraq hardly gets any press coverage in any media outside of Iraq anymore. I would hope that nonIraqis would want to help Iraqis. But do they?

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  3. thankgodimatheistNovember 24, 2009 at 10:19 PM

    Leaders lied anand..You don't want them be investigated?

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  4. thankgodimatheistNovember 24, 2009 at 10:21 PM

    And don't change the subject to a pathetic " <span> I would hope that nonIraqis would want to help Iraqis" which is not the point here.
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  5. ananNovember 24, 2009 at 11:14 PM

    Who lied on Iraq?

    Chalabi and the other Iraqi resistance leaders are proad of misleading and manipulating America to help them defeat Saddam.

    My guess is that a lot of the bad intelligence might have been fed by Khameini who saw in Pres Bush a complete dumbo that he could manipulate into taking out his mortal enemy Saddam.

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  6. thankgodimatheistNovember 24, 2009 at 11:47 PM

    Blair lied.

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  7. ananNovember 25, 2009 at 2:08 AM

    How did Blair lie? I don't know of any examples.

    The person who might have lied was Dick Cheney. I think he did lie, especially to Bush one on one. Dick Cheney has harmed America. What Bush could have been if he didn't have Cheney by his side?

    I don't understand what is wrong with Cheney. Cheney made crazy accusations against Saddam Hussein. Either he was raving mad, a dumbo like Bush, or a liar.

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  8. VAANovember 25, 2009 at 2:25 AM

    Fuck you anan
    You're about the only idiot left on this universe that still denies the lies from Bush ,Blair,Howard,and all the other monkeys  
    News of the lies filled the media endlessly and just about everyone is aware of the lies ,apparently except for you.  >:o

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  9. VAANovember 25, 2009 at 2:35 AM

    <span style="font-family: Times; ">
    <p>Leaders/Liars should be held accountable for the damage done to Iraq and it's society ,Foreign troops should get the F. out of Iraq and Afghanistan . Puppets governments should resisted and removed into the garbage bin. 
    <p>Bush and all the coalition of the willing should be tried at the hague as war criminals ,local collaborators should face the death penalty.
    <p>And history should mark them as thus.
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  10. thankgodimatheistNovember 25, 2009 at 3:05 AM

    Just one lie among many other: Blair denied it was about regime change when actually it was.

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  11. thankgodimatheistNovember 25, 2009 at 3:14 AM

    Anan trusts and believes whatever the US administration officials say without too much thinking about it. He gulps it hook and sinker.. He has faith in the govt. and more so in the military! Like a child who believes that Daddy cannot and would not lie to him. Why would he?

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  12. ananNovember 25, 2009 at 7:11 AM

    The Iraqis elected their own leaders. They have their own army that is loyal to their own elected leaders. If any non Iraqi Sunni Arab has a problem with that they can go to Iraq and fight the Iraqi Army. The Iraqi Army will send them to heaven.

    Any idiot who dares call for the murder of Iraq's elected leaders and their beloved army is a real piece of work.

    I wonder why so many worthless non Iraqi Sunni Arabs don't talk about how Saddam caused the deaths of over a million Iraqis (by invading Iran and Kuwait and by killing 400,000 Iraqis in the great Iraqi civil war in 1975 and between 1980 and 2008.) I am sorry. They do talk about Saddam. They love Saddam. Saddam was their puppet that they used to mass murder Iraqis for decades.

    Don't worry about it, though. The Iraqi Army has smashed Saddam's remaining followers and driven them to Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and other nice countries. The lovely neighbors can keep them (Saddams' followers.) Please don't send them back :-D Thank you.

    TGIA, I trust Sistani, the Najaf Marjas, heroes like Maliki and Alusi. Real men like the generals in the Iraqi Army. I don't trust the good for nothing dicators of many Arab countries.

    "<span>Just one lie among many other: Blair denied it was about regime change when actually it was.</span>" When did Blair deny the war was about regime change? What else could it have been about?

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  13. Jemmy HopeNovember 25, 2009 at 7:13 AM

    The war criminal Blair stated before the invasion that Saddam had missiles that could hit UK targets 45 minutes after launching. If you're going to tell a lie make it a whopper, the Goebbels strategy. Of course nobody in the UK believed it, but the pro-war press (i.e., virtually all the press) ran with it bigging it up. Our political representatives, rather than defy their leaders and mar their careers, pretended to be taken in and voted for collaboration with the mad dogs of Washington.
    That was just the biggest and most ridiculous lie that Blair told. There was also the "dodgy dossier" that was demanded of the craven intelligence sector by the Blair bunch, the one that led to the death of David Kelly and the exposure of Colin Powell as a fool.
    But we can rival that. The Angry Arab's Comments Section has its own resident liar who strives hard to outlie even Blair, Bush, Cheney. Sometimes I think he succeeds. Take a bow, Onan the racist.

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  14. Jemmy HopeNovember 25, 2009 at 7:43 AM

    "Tony Blair went to war in Iraq because he lacked the guts to stand up to George Bush, say the invasion was not justified by facts or law, and refuse to join him in Baghdad. Despite being told to his face by Hans Blix that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, he deceived the cabinet and parliament and took his nation to war." (Simon Jenkins) 
     
    <span style="color: #a9501b;">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/24/blair-chilcot-inquiry-parliament-iraq</span> 

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  15. thankgodimatheistNovember 25, 2009 at 2:29 PM

    Nice diversion as usual. We were talking about Blair and Bush and you find a way to drown the fish with your  confused and irrelevent drivel about Iraqi army, leaders and other crap..I really don't understand how your mind works..Totally irrational!.

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  16. vzaNovember 26, 2009 at 9:40 AM

    Well then, it seems you really do not want another inquiry, you simply want guilt declared.

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  17. vzaNovember 26, 2009 at 9:42 AM

    Then it seems you really do not want an investigation or inquiry, you want a cofirmation of what you believe.

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  18. vzaNovember 26, 2009 at 9:42 AM

    Prove it.

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  19. vzaNovember 26, 2009 at 9:54 AM

    You guys enjoy beating up on anand a bit too much for my taste. That is what this blog has been devoted to for the last week or so and if you are not careful that is all it will be.I may not agree with him, but this constant ridicule and jumping all over the guy is boring in the extreme.
    There has been a couple of investigations in Britain with regard to the Iraq War as there have also been in the U.S.
    You did not get the confirmation of your beliefs that you are looking for, therefore all those other investigations must have been bogus, right?
    So in other words, you are not really interested in the truth unless the truth confirms your opinions.

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  20. Jemmy HopeNovember 26, 2009 at 12:12 PM

    vza, I will stop beating up on your pet dog when it stop urinating on my carpet.
    Your pet called me a racist; your pet called me a supporter of the Taliban. What should I say to that? I'm no mealy-mouthed, two-faced christian, talking about forgiveness and brotherly love while justifying war crimes.
    You claim we enjoy beating him up. Is he a masochist? He keeps coming back for more. Or is he a sociopath with no real beliefs or ethical standpoint, just a desire to stir up and take pleasure in animosity?

    There have been four previous enquiries into matters surrounding the Iraq war, all rigged. The current bunch of establishment functionaries conducting the latest farce has been carefully selected by the guilty parties. If you want to know something about their background you can read about them here.
    http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/
    Of course, if you think that Bush and Blair are not guilty of war crimes then don't bother, because anyone who needs further evidence is never going to catch on.

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  21. vzaNovember 26, 2009 at 1:53 PM

    <span>vza, I will stop beating up on your pet dog when it stop urinating on my carpet. </span>

    Pet dog? *DONT_KNOW*


    <span>There have been four previous enquiries into matters surrounding the Iraq war, all rigged.</span>

    And you, of course, know that for a fact. I think you think they were rigged precisely because they did not confirm YOUR verdict.

    I cannot say whether or not Bush and Blair are guilty of war crimes....and neither can you! You can say you THINK they are guilty but that is about it!

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  22. Jemmy HopeNovember 27, 2009 at 11:29 AM

    vza, if you want to kid yourself that Bush and Blair are not guilty of war crimes, that's your business, but don't accuse me of self-delusion. If you support these people and approve of their well documented crimes come out and say so. Neutrality = status quo, and status quo = giving the gangsters free rein.

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  23. Jemmy HopeNovember 27, 2009 at 11:33 AM

    ... but you haven't answered my question - is your creepy friend a masochist or a sociopath?

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  24. vzaNovember 27, 2009 at 1:07 PM

    I don't have creepy friends.

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  25. vzaNovember 27, 2009 at 1:11 PM

    I repeat:

    <span>I cannot say whether or not Bush and Blair are guilty of war crimes....and neither can you! You can say you THINK they are guilty but that is about it!</span>

    Even Bush and Blair are entitiled to the presumption of innocence. But cheer up, we can continue having inquiry after inquiry until you get the verdict you want.

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  26. Jemmy HopeNovember 28, 2009 at 3:06 AM

    I'll rephrase it for you - is my creepy enemy a masochist or a sociopath?

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  27. Jemmy HopeNovember 28, 2009 at 3:08 AM

    I bet you couldn't say whether Hitler or Stalin were guilty of human rights abuses. After all they never stood trial.

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  28. vzaNovember 28, 2009 at 7:50 AM

    Perhaps he is just a young man who is a policy wonk who loves facts and figures and endless debate about the issues.

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  29. vzaNovember 28, 2009 at 7:50 AM

    That is too silly for a response.

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