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The US troops will leave Iraq by 2011, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has said and ruled out the possibility of extension of their stay any more as Iraq's own forces were capable of confronting remaining threats to the country.

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Understanding the Iraq sanctions

Campaign For Liberty Campaign For Liberty
by Anthony Gregory

01/17/11

Between the Gulf War and the Iraq War, the United States enforced a comprehensive sanctions policy against the Iraqi people, under the auspices of the United Nations. Whereas the hot conflict of 1990 and the one that has run from March 2003 to this day have occupied American attention, the sanctions, beginning even before Operation Desert Storm and persisting until Shock and Awe, implemented by three presidential administrations, were largely ignored...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1292


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By Craig Woodhouse

Tony Blair should give up millions of pounds he is earning from the Kuwaiti government as reparations for the Iraq war, campaigners said today.

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Terrorist by Association

By Jeremy Gantz

The Justice Department targets nonviolent solidarity activists.
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New Iraq War Grilling For Tony Blair

Tony Blair is to make his second appearance before the Iraq war inquiry on Friday next week, 21 January 2011. The former PM is one of a number of witnesses to be recalled to give more evidence to the inquiry, headed by former Whitehall mandarin Sir John Chilcot. Mr Blair?s hearing will start at 9.30am and is scheduled to last four and a half hours. Other witnesses who have been recalled include former foreign secretary Jack Straw and former chief of the defence staff Admiral Lord Boyce. Lindsey German, convener of the Stop The War Coalition, warned: ?Blair will be met with demonstrations and protests at the Chilcot inquiry. We are determined to hold him to account.? One Click Note: Grilling? To date, all the numerous enquiries over the Iraq War have been tepid toothless and cost a fortune. The electorate is watching... Daily Express Reporter, Daily Express.

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Gareth Porter, Truthout: "In an interview on the PBS NewsHour last Wednesday, Joe Biden was unwilling to contradict the official narrative of the Iraq war that Gen. David Petraeus and the Bush surge had turned Iraq into a good war after all. That interview serves as a reminder of just how completely the Democratic Party foreign policy elite has adopted that narrative. The Iraq War story line crafted by Petraeus and the new counterinsurgency elite in Washington assures the public that U.S. military power in Iraq brought about the cooperation of the Sunnis in Anbar Province, ended sectarian violence in Baghdad and defeated Iranian-backed Shi'a insurgents. In reality, of course, that's not what happened at all."

http://www.truth-out.org/biden-and-false-iraq-war-narrative63044

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Petraeus Spin on IED War Belied by Soaring Casualties
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By Felicity Arbuthnot

The British, of course, having come in flying the St George's flag on their vehicles (the Crusaders' flag) slithered out of Basra city, under cover of darkness, to hunker down at the fortified airport, some distance outside the town, in September 2007, much as US units did from other parts of Iraq, last week, fleeing in the night, over the border to Kuwait.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26297.htm



Blair Memoir Reveals Support for George W. Bush and Guantanamo Bay

By Roland Watson

TONY Blair admires George W. Bush more than almost any other politician in the world and uses his memoir, A Journey, to give a qualified endorsement of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba and the way in which Afghan and Iraqi detainees have been treated.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26294.htm



Tony Blair: military intervention in rogue regimes 'more necessary than ever'

Former PM defends foreign policy record, revealing that the experience of Iraq and Afghanistan has not diminished his commitment to taking on opponents.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/sep/01/tony-blair-military-intervention-necessary



Tony Blair: West should use force if Iran 'continues to develop nuclear weapons'

The west should use force against Iran if it "continues to develop nuclear weapons", Tony Blair said today, aligning himself with US hawks who have called for strikes against Iranian nuclear sites.

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Tony Blair pelted with eggs and shoes as anti-war protester attempts citizen's arrest

Shoes and eggs were pelted at Tony Blair in Dublin today as he attended his first public signing of his controversial memoir.

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More Than One Million Killed And War criminal

Colin Powell says Iraq invasion was avoidable, regrets false WMD intelligence: "It was the intelligence that was wrong. I did not make up this information; I did not invent it; I did not pull it out of the air. It was information that our intelligence community stood behind," he stated.

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/international/news/20100902p2a00m0na005000c.html



Ideology and Ideologues

By James Keye

Ideologues are confident, certain and claim to be in complete possession of THE truth. They use the language of reality and truth just as if they possessed them.

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Iraq War Legal Advice Published

BBC News

In a letter to the prime minister on 30 January, 2003, Lord Goldsmith said he "remained of the view that the correct legal interpretation of resolution 1441 is that it does not authorise the use of military force without a further determination by the Security Council".

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Blair 'needed UN support' over Iraq

Jonathan Powell assured a meeting at 10 Downing Street three months before the war began that it was unlikely that America would proceed with the invasion alone.

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Revealed: Tony Blair's battle with law chief after warning Iraq war would be illegal

Tony Blair's fury at being told the Iraq War was illegal was laid bare yesterday after secret memos from his Attorney General were finally published.

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US And Britain 'Did Not Believe Iraq's Weapons Programme Was A Real Threat'

By The Telegraph

Former UK diplomat Carne Ross claimed that the Government ''intentionally and substantially'' exaggerated its assessment of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in public documents.

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Tony Blair 'intentionally talked up WMD', Iraq inquiry told

Tony Blair "intentionally" exaggerated the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, the Iraq inquiry heard yesterday.

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