TONY BLAIR and the DAILY MAIL attack.....

TONY BLAIR and IRAQ

In response to the vicious attack upon Tony Blair by STEPHEN GLOVER of the ‘Daily Mail’ in respect to the ‘Iraq’ affair; I wrote to him as shown below. All, that repeatedly condemn TONY BLAIR in respect to the invasion of Iraq, ought to read this:

20 January, 2011

Stephen Glover

Daily Mail
2 Derry Street
London W8 5TT

 Re. Your feature: “At last, the damning evidence that should bury Blair for his lies over Iraq.”

Sir, with respect,

Read the Attorney General’s advice. Lawyers never instruct their clients on how they should act. They merely provide for their clients the contingencies that may arise and suggest ways of dealing with them. The Attorney General’s advice given to Government; is exactly the same.

Read it carefully, Sir;  Attorney General Lord Goldsmith merely sets out the contingencies that may arise:

In (A) circumstance; (B) might be the circumstance that might follow. But if you do (C) that circumstance might not arise. And, so on throughout the entire advice given. At no stage does he commit himself to determine whether war against Iraq is illegal. Furthermore, Lord Goldsmith does not provide all his advice in one session. There is a break between. In the second session Lord Goldsmith clearly indicates a change of mind. What actually influenced him to change his mind hasn’t actually been made clear; but one of things, that I believe might have done, was the report of UNMOVIC (Hans Blix) to the UN. Precisely at that time. Hans Blix in a worldwide televised report to the UN said this:

“The Iraqi has given some compliance with Resolution 1441 but they have still not provided any material or information in respect to the weapons of mass destruction that we know that they have.”

This was the clear breach of Resolution 1441. I believe that statement by Hans Blix might well have influenced the Attorney General. This statement is actually very interesting indeed: pay particular attention to the words: “that we know that they have.”. Here is the clear emphatic indication that, at that time, prior to the invasion of Iraq “WE” indicates not only UNMOVIC, but all Western Intelligence, at that time, fully believed Iraq did possess ‘weapons of mass destruction’:

 “They have still not provided any material or information in respect of the weapons of mass destruction that we know that they have. “

From the intelligence available at that time both Bush and Blair had every right to believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Sadaam Hussein, though provided with every opportunity by the UN, failed to take that opportunity to properly prove to the UN; that he did not have them. Sadaam Hussein was one of the world’s greatest propagandists; he beat the Nazi Joseph Goebels, in spades. Strategically and militarily it was in Sadaam’s interests to have the nations in the region of Iraq, and the rest of the World, to believe that he did have weapons of mass destruction. And, in that deceit he fooled everybody.

 

There is one other thing that also ought to be made clear about the “45 minute” claim.

Tony Blair in his speech given to parliament mentioned that Iraq could launch a weapon of mass destruction in 45 minutes. The words, “45 minutes” being mentioned only once by Tony Blair throughout his long speech. Furthermore, throughout the rest of the debate in parliament, that night, not one other Member of Parliament referred to those words; nor was it mentioned in any other speech. Parliament barely paid heed to it at all. Yet the very next day the filthy right wing press made a song and dance about it asserting that Tony Blair had informed Parliament that Iraq could attack Britain with weapons of mass destruction and those weapons could be launched against us in 45 minutes. The entire “45 minute claim” is the fiction and manipulation of Media. Tony Blair made no such claim.

Interestingly, at that time, DR. David Kelly, also supported that claim. That, Iraq could launch such a weapon in 45 minutes. Interviewed by a BBC lady reporter, she specifically asked him about this. She asserts that Dr. Kelly replied:

 “Of course Iraq could launch within 45 minutes. If the weapons had been pre-armed and if the trajectories had been pre-programed”

 

Mr. Glover, your hatred for Tony Blair; and the right wing’s hatred of Tony Blair; can be seen for what it is.

 

You, Sir; aspire to and represent TORY rotten concepts and ideas, unbridled Capitalism, the pursuit of individual self aspiration and greed. Whereas, Blair, represents myself and all socialists; believing in the subjugation of the selfish self for the common good. You and your kind are rabidly anti-State. Whereas, we, believe in the “State”; where “The State”, is all of “The People”. You hate me and my political aspirations; and I, forever, hate and detest yours.

It is that ‘hatred’ between us that motivates your writing every day.

I buy the ‘Mail’ every day in order to get my daily dose of hate.

It’s wholly biased contributors, never ever let me down

 

Sincerely

Gordon J Sheppard