Christians Leaders United for War: "The tyrannical Iranian regime shall never threaten the world with nuclear weapons" (original.antiwar.com)
Unlearned lessons of the Soviet invasion - The U.S., like the Soviet Union, is learning the hard way on Afghanistan. (globalpost.com)
US Defense Secretary proposes $2 billion in funds to aid unstable countries... get more unstable (washingtonpost.com)
Ron Paul: The war propagandists are hoping for an "incident" that would justify attack on Iran (ronpaul.com)
Pakistani Taliban commander has said he has sent thousands of fighters into neighbouring Afghanistan to counter the rising level of US troops (english.aljazeera.net)
Obama came out today and said "I never campaigned on a public option!" Obama during the campaign in 2008: “My plan builds on and improves our current insurance system, which most Americans continue to rely upon, and creates a new public health plan for those currently without coverage.” (thinkprogress.org)
Danny Glover: I See No Difference Between Bush And Obama Policies : “He may be just a different face, and that face may happen to be black—and if it were Hillary Clinton, it would happen to be a woman,” says Danny Glover. “But what choices do they have within the structure?” (newsone.com)
Noam Chomsky: 'US foreign policy is straight out of the mafia' (guardian.co.uk)
We broke the law, admits CIA agent convicted of rendition (independent.co.uk)
Paul Craig Roberts: The Evil Empire. "The US gov't is now so totally under the thumbs of organized interest groups that “our” government can no longer respond to the concerns of the American people who elect the president and the members of the House and Senate." (counterpunch.org)
Hey America! - "The disparity between why are you willing to fund endless wars to destroy other countries and invade other countries, but not provide healthcare to your own citizens, is a very glaring one." (democracynow.org)
1,000 U.S. troops wounded in Afghanistan in past 3 months (washingtonpost.com)
Federal Reserve Policy Audit Legislation ‘Gutted,’ US Ron Paul Says (bloomberg.com)
Three undercover officers accused of inciting protesters to attack riot police at the 2007 North American leaders summit in Montebello are being summoned to testify before Quebec's independent police ethics committee. (globeandmail.com)
This could be helpful - Obama's foreign policy report card: "Obama brings 22,000 troops out of Iraq, cuts war spending by $30 billion." (salon.com)
US diplomat resigns over Afghan war: "Like the Soviets, we continue to secure and bolster a failing state, while encouraging an ideology and system of government unknown and unwanted by its people" (google.com)
1 in 3 women are Raped in the Military: Tina Priest raped in Iraq and later found dead of a gunshot in her dorm. U.S. Army claims Tina committed suicide 11 days after she was raped. (afterdowningstreet.org)
Rebel British soldier calls for Afghan exit (guardian.co.uk)
Nice Guy USA "Sorry" For Murdering Afghan Civilians - U.S. military convoy opens fire on civilian vehicle, kills child, two women and a man. (news.uk.msn.com)
If this is progress, what would an Afghan disaster look like? (thenational.ae)
After documenting that people were being boiled alive at the behest of the CIA, 20 year career British diplomat is told, “Dear Ambassador, we are concerned that you are perhaps over-focused on human rights to the detriment of commercial interests.” (consortiumnews.com)
At least 34 U.S. service members have died in Afghanistan this month. (armytimes.com)
War Criminals Are Becoming The Arbiters Of Law:We’re entitled to do whatever the hell we want to the Palestinians (informationclearinghouse.info)
UN Looks Into Sri Lanka War Crimes, Ignores US War Crimes (voanews.com)
Car bombs targeting Baghdad government kill 91 (google.com)UN Looks Into Sri Lanka War Crimes, Ignores US War Crimes (voanews.com)
All people of conscious are offended and outraged by this situation, but while Hamas is not doing anything, Israel is strangling a million civilians (uk.news.yahoo.com)
ACLU: U.S. Among World's Worst Surveillance Societies. (aclu.org)
http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1549/1/
Tony Blair's man in America says Afghan War is futile
Will Sir Christopher Meyer, former British ambassador to Washington, join the Stop the War demonstration on 24 October?
The war in Afghanistan is "madcap" and "futile" and serves "no conceivable national interest", says Sir Christopher Meyer, who as Britain's ambassador to Washington had a ringside seat on the dispatch of troops there.
The fighting is "a waste of blood and treasure" because there is no coherent purpose behind it, he argues scornfully in a new book.
Meyer, who was Tony Blair's man in America from 1997 to 2003, writes that: "After nearly eight years in Afghanistan . . . there is still no clarity about why we are there. Is it to stop Al-Qaeda returning on the shirt-tails of the Taliban? Or are we trying to create the conditions to transform Afghan governance and society? Depending on who you speak to — British or American — it is either, both, or something in the middle.
"A punitive expedition against Al-Qaeda is one thing; but to seek, against the grain of history, to rebuild Afghanistan from the ground up, in the name of a western concept of democracy and human rights, is futile.
"If this madcap venture is to take 40 years, as General Sir David Richards, chief of the general staff, averred this year, no conceivable national interest can be served by such an eccentric concentration of resources on a country of marginal importance."
Meyer adds: "The poor, bloody infantry can win a thousand firefights in Helmand province, and earnest officials from the Department for International Development can make plans for a bridge here, a dam there; but until these efforts are linked to a political process, underpinned by diplomacy, they are so much waste of blood and treasure."
Poland signs up to new US shield - Polish Prime Minister has declared his country ready to take part in a revised US missile defence plan. (news.bbc.co.uk)
Pat Buchanan advises "traditional Americans" to join the "Oath Keepers" - a conservative organization of ex-military personnel and police officers willing to violently defy the current administration. (intershame.com) - sometimes it's hard to work out if the bigger threat to world peace is the American government or the American opposition.
The truth is out! Sequoia Voting Systems releases code by mistake. Revealed was thousands of lines of MS-SQL source code that appears to influence the logical flow of the election (dailykos.com)
Fully armed MQ-9 Reaper (UAV) goes rogue in Afghanistan, has to be shot down by military (baronshobbies.com)
UN puts Iran deal on the table: Exporting uranium has been seen as a way for Iran to get the fuel it needs, while giving guarantees to the West that it will not be used for nuclear weapons. (news.bbc.co.uk)
Since taking office, President Obama has sanctioned at least 41 Central Intelligence Agency drone strikes in Pakistan that have killed between 326 and 538 people, many of them, critics say, “innocent bystanders, including children,” according to a published report. (pubrecord.org)
ISRAEL'S Education Ministry has recalled all copies of a history textbook because of a passage alleging "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians during the 1948 war (theaustralian.news.com.au)
The knock on the door can come in the middle of the night, or while you're feeding the kids their breakfast. For the wives and girlfriends of men serving in Afghanistan, it's the sound they most dread. (guardian.co.uk)
Ex-US national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski on Afghan war and the election. (english.aljazeera.net) ...
Iraq ratifies oil deals with China and Britain. (news.bbc.co.uk)
The barefaced greed of bankers and their bonuses beggars belief - Have the banks no shame??? (telegraph.co.uk)
In September 2009, Fallujah General Hospital had 170 new born babies, 24% of whom were dead within the first seven days, a staggering 75% of the dead babies were classified as deformed. (unobserver.com)
US Federal deficit hits all-time high $1.42 trillion (breitbart.com)
US embassy found involved in importing weapons to Pakistan (paktribune.com)
30,000 Pakistani troops attack Taliban in South Waziristan (cbc.ca)
In September 2009, Fallujah General Hospital had 170 new born babies, 24% of whom were dead within the first seven days, a staggering 75% of the dead babies were classified as deformed. (unobserver.com)
A Russian academic investigating the fate of ethnic Germans deported by Stalin during World War II was arrested and ordered to remain silent by the FSB, who seized his research. (news.bbc.co.uk)
Outrage: House Sneakily Passes Bill Banning Release of Photos Showing Detainee Abuse (alternet.org)
Despite protests from Israel, the U.N. Human Rights Council has endorsed the Goldstone report. The report calls for the U.N. Security Council to refer the matter to the International Criminal Court if the Israelis or Palestinians fail to investigate the alleged abuses themselves. (reuters.com)
Pakistan declares guerrilla war under way by Taliban, dozens die (news.yahoo.com)
Johann Hari: Why are we ignoring the far right terror threat? The West Yorkshire Police recently launched a huge series of raids against far-right groups and found them in possession of 80 bombs – considerably more even than any jihadi group has been caught with in British history (johannhari.com)
Unreal: French Troops Were Killed and Mutilated Because Italy Was Paying Bribes to the Taliban, Then Failed to Inform Incoming French Forces.... (timesonline.co.uk)
Five Facts About Afghanistan (mwcnews.net)
Yorkshire Father to Tony Blair: "I don't want to shake your hand. It has blood on it – the blood of my son...You took us to war on a lie and you are responsible for all those deaths in Iraq. One day it will come back on you and you'll have to pay for what you did." (yorkshirepost.co.uk)
Afghanistan is a war of lies (essential reading for anyone still foolish enough to think this is a just war) (ericmargolis.com)
Obama, If You Get Afghanistan Wrong, It Could Derail Your Presidency - The U.S. can't defeat the Taliban by employing overwhelming military power. (alternet.org)
Afghanistan Is A Lost Cause - It’s surely time for the US president to face an unpalatable truth. Even the mighty superpower with the most sophisticated weapons in the world can’t win them all. Sometimes victory entails knowing when to quit. (arabnews.com)
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini 'was recruited by MI5' (telegraph.co.uk)
Obama quietly deploying 13,000 more US troops to Afghanistan (guardian.co.uk)
"Cheney/Kristol had their day. They got to do exactly what they wanted to do -- torture, preemptive war, abandoning the rule of law, abandoning democratic norms, alienating allies, ignoring the concept of international cooperation -- and they failed anyway." (alternet.org)
"Post Peace Prize, Obama Speeds Shipment Of Bunker-Busters To Hit Iran" ?? (airamerica.com)
Iraqi cancer figures soar; Doctors blame depleted uranium (beagle17.gnn.tv)
Iraqi cancer figures soar. Locals blame depleted uranium from US ammunition used in the 2003 invasion. (english.aljazeera.net)
Blair attempts to shake hand of dead soldier's father. Father refuses, shouting "Don't you dare. " (mailonsunday.co.uk)
On the other hgand... Obama brings another honor to America. Rachel Maddow lays out the case for the Peace Prize. Pretty convincing, actually. (msnbc.msn.com)
How the Afghan Election Was Rigged ... (time.com)
"Police forces across Canada... are immediately changing their Taser use policy after the manufacturer issued a directive that officers should not aim the weapon at a suspect's chest." (thestar.com)
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So let me get this straight US Government, it's ok for people to use twitter during protests in countries like Iran, whose government you oppose, but when one of your citizens tweets during a protest you don't approve of you arrest him, then have the FBI tear his house apart? WTF, police state?? (democracynow.org)
You can date the end of dollar hegemony from China's decision last month to sell its first batch of sovereign bonds in Chinese yuan to foreigners - "We are only beginning to grasp the enormity and historical significance of what has happened." (telegraph.co.uk)
What Obama Should Have Said: US Compliance with International Law (jurist.law.pitt.edu)
Iran’s nuclear threat is a lie. Obama's "showdown" with Iran has another agenda. The media have been tasked with preparing the public for endless war. (newstatesman.com)
The Obama Adminstration has fired a top US diplomat at the UN for the heinous crime of insisting that the manifest and widespread fraud in the Afghan elections be investigated. (chris-floyd.com)
Another Year of War in Afghanistan. An unspoken mantra remains in effect: When in doubt, keep killing. The knotty question is: Exactly who and how?" (counterpunch.org)
Gaza's Water Supply Near Collapse. "The International Committee of the Red Cross has warned that Gaza's access to safe supply of drinking water could cease at any time." (ipsnews.net)
Noam Chomsky: "That the US justification for its drug programs abroad is even regarded as worthy of discussion is yet another illustration of the depth of the imperial mentality." (greenleft.org.au)
In reaction to Obama's scrapping the Eastern Europe missile shield, Russia scraps their missile plans (news.yahoo.com)
The more closely people look at the Afghan election, the more obvious it becomes that it was a complete and utter sham. (guardian.co.uk)
Obama sticks to his guns on CIA torture probe (rawstory.com)
What No One Is Telling You: 100,000,000 Americans Already Use Government Health Care (dailykos.com)
Undercounting deaths of US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan: Contractor deaths are rarely reported. "Add at least 1,360 private contractors working for the U.S. and the number tops 6,500." (blogs.reuters.com)
Baghdad Green Zone attacked during Biden visit-Does this sound like a safe place to go? (hosted.ap.org)
Obama renews Cuba trade embargo (news.bbc.co.uk)
Bombs will kill women in Afghanistan: The Lies of Women being free in Afghanistan. (rethinkafghanistan.com)
U.S. to boost combat force in Afghanistan, sending 14000 troops. (latimes.com)
CNN: Majority Of Americans Want U.S. Out Of Afghanistan War (youtube.com)
Afghan Elections: "Massive fraud, massive ballot stuffing..." - Afghans very sceptical. The Taliban aren't winning - but the government are losing...
A Nuremburg chief prosecutor says there is a case for trying Bush for the "supreme crime against humanity, an illegal war of aggression against a sovereign nation". (alternet.org)
CIA declares itself and its torturers above the law and refuses to turn over torture documents despite a federal judge ordering the agency to produce the documents. (rawstory.com)
"If Afghanistan, one of the poorest countries in the world, and really hardly a country at all, is a threat to US national security, so is Malawi, Burundi and Fiji. American national security is not to the slightest degree threatened by the Taliban." (commondreams.org)
Cindy Sheehan Protesting Obama’s Illegal War Of Agression (therobalution.com)
First documents to be released to show the "art" of rendition and the systematic torture that ensues. In a nutshell these documents are sick and prove that the Bush admin. was a sadistic bunch of thugs. (pubrecord.org)
Obama’s continuation of rendition is yet another repudiation of his campaign promises. Foreign Affairs 2007: Obama said he would “eliminate the practice of extreme rendition, where we outsource our torture to other countries.” (wsws.org)
The Truth About The Afghan Election (counterpunch.com)
Brazil calls Obama over US bases (news.bbc.co.uk)
UK to share fingerprints with Canada, Australia (news.zdnet.co.uk) !!!!!
Bush’s day of reckoning is inevitable, because as a signatory of the convention against torture Obama will be in violation of International Law by not investigating Bush. (commondreams.org) - Hmm, we'll see...
The Real Boston Tea Party was an Anti-Corporate Revolt (commondreams.org)
CIA Report Into the Bush Administration’s Torture Programs, Finally Released. (timesonline.co.uk)
There will be a memorial tomorrow, Saturday 22nd Aug, at 12.30pm at the War Memorial, opposite Paragon Station, Hull.
There will be a reading of the names of the dead both British and Afghani.
Hull Stop the War Coalition will attend with a stall and banner.
All other groups and individuals are welcome.
Currently there are 206 British dead.
AFGHANISTAN IN QUOTES
TONY BENN - I think you have to understand the history of this. Britain invaded Afghanistan in 1839, captured Kabul, and was defeated the following year, and 15,000 British troops were killed in the retreat. Britain invaded Afghanistan in 1879. Britain was in Afghanistan in 1919. The Russians were in Afghanistan. I led a delegation to the Russian ambassador in London to protest that. The United States government, President Bush, the first one, funded Osama bin Laden to fight the Russians to get them out of Afghanistan. ... And the situation we’re in now is very straightforward. The United States and NATO, forty countries with 64,000 troops, in eight years have been unable to defeat the Taliban. And this is a Vietnam War for America and for the rest of the—well, for the people involved, soldiers and civilians on both sides, it’s an absolute tragedy.
Marina of RAWA, interviewed by John Pilger - “We, the women of Afghanistan, only became a cause in the west following 11 September 2001, when the Taliban suddenly became the official enemy of America. Yes, they persecuted women, but they were not unique, and we have resented the silence in the west over the atrocious nature of the western-backed warlords, who are no different. They rape and kidnap and terrorise, yet they hold seats in [Hamid] Karzai’s government. In some ways, we were more secure under the Taliban. You could cross Afghanistan by road and feel secure. Now, you take your life into your hands.”
John Pilger - The truth about the “good war” is to be found in compelling evidence that the 2001 invasion, widely supported in the west as a justifiable response to the 11 September attacks, was actually planned two months prior to 9/11 and that the most pressing problem for Washington was not the Taliban’s links with Osama Bin Laden, but the prospect of the Taliban mullahs losing control of Afghanistan to less reliable mujahedin factions.
"To me, I confess, [countries] are pieces on a chessboard upon which is being played out a game for dominion of the world."
Lord Curzon, viceroy of India, speaking about Afghanistan, 1898
Rex Tomb, spokesman, FBI’s public affairs unit - “The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Osama bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11.”
Released on compassionate grounds, the man who probably didn't bomb Pan Am 103, al-Megrahi released the following statement: (news.bbc.co.uk)
UK 'can't find' $13bn in military hardware (abc.net.au)
CIA assassination program had been outsourced to Blackwater, ex-officials say (latimes.com)
It's not just that the CIA wanted to outsource assassinations to Blackwater; it's that they were ready to directly pay the company's executives millions of dollars without a contract in an act of amazing government corruption (trueslant.com)
Camp Ashraf, Iraq - refugees still not allowed to bury the dead, lawyers barred from obtaining visas, American military witnesses silent (themarknews.com)
One in nine Americans uses food stamps (wsws.org)
Tom Ridge now admits that the Bush Adminstration urged him to raise the Homeland Security alert level during the heat of Bush's re-election campaign, an act so blatantly political he *considered* resigning over it. (usnews.com)
U.S. troops could be forced by Iraqi voters to withdraw a year ahead of schedule under a referendum the Iraqi government backed Monday. (washingtonpost.com)
STOP THE BLAME GAME
I am told I come first
learn to like myself
maybe then
I might learn to like others
who am I anyway
and what is there to like
where do I start
my nose stubby and short
sitting oddly between my brows
flared too much at the tips
hoping to touch the base of my cheeks
STOP
enough of this rant
don’t let me torture you
with figments from my closet
just one more thought
to seal my promise
“don’t point the finger of blame
at another
you’ll find three more pointing back at you”
reminds me of our Prime Minister
wallowing in the pan of grief
mourning the two hundred dead
soldiers in
whilst warning of the increasing span
to preserve our National Interest
mind body and soul
how dreadful
our Prime Minister cannot be told
stop the blame game
there must be something
about ourselves that we like
louis ivan jones
copywrite August 2000
email uis@uis.karoo.co.uk
The Russians couldn't win it. NATO can't win it. Afghans will finish the job. As is their right.
New Afgan law: husbands can deny food to wives who don't submit to their sexual demands. (guardian.co.uk)
arguably, the United States is the most flagrant violator of NPT commitments, frequently intervening to prevent other NPT-signatories from exercising their "inalienable rights," affirmed under the NPT, to access nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, "without discrimination."UK Government's statement that ID card has not been hacked proves that it really is just another useless bit of plastic (computerweekly.com)
Britain “sleepwalked into a surveillance society” -- there is a request to snoop on the public every 60 secs (telegraph.co.uk)Eyewitness from Honduras: The U.S. is involved in what is happening in Honduras up to its eyeballs. The leaders of the coup government, the military and those financing the coup are all the principal allies of the U.S. (laprogressive.com)
Calling the Bank's Bluff: Why a Debtor's Revolt Would Work.Taser International launches court action to quash inquiry's recommendations for preventing taser deaths. (cbc.ca)
Today the Geneva Conventions turn 60 years old. Despite the fact that 194 states have ratified them, it still faces a struggle for respect. (news.bbc.co.uk)
More than 300 UK children a day are being put on to the DNA database, around one in six are likely to have never been convicted of any crime. (telegraph.co.uk)
Sibel Edmonds offers details of Turkey’s covert operations in U.S. (reporter.am)
Another U.S. Missile Kills at Least 10 in Pakistan Tribal Area (nytimes.com)
University researchers get Sequoia e-voting machine, reverse engineer ROM, demonstrate vote-count altering hack (theregister.co.uk)
Nosocomial infections are infections which are a result of treatment in a hospital or a healthcare service unit, but secondary to the patient's original condition.U.S., Britain and Israel have tried to bypass the Geneva Conventions on the grounds that they do not apply to "terror suspects" or "terrorists" (commondreams.org)
Two convicted for refusal to decrypt data (theregister.co.uk)
Authorities made over half a million requests to access private emails and telephone records in the UK last year (news.com.au)
Blackwater = Murder, Inc.? Almost all nation's leading newspapers fail to cover explosive new allegations from two company employees (bradblog.com)
Burma: Suu Kyi house arrest extended 18 months... American who swam to meet her... 7 years hard labour. (sbs.com.au) - Perhaps Clinton can work his magic agian...
Facepalm: "People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the NHS would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless." (ibdeditorials.com)
Harry Patch is buried today. 1,400 people will attend inside Wells Cathedral, thousands more outside. Two soldiers each from the armies of Belgium, France and Germany will also accompany the coffin. (guardian.co.uk)
Gordon Brown 'suppressed defence report' revealing waste of up to £2.5 billion a year (google.com)
John Pilger Wins Sydney Peace Prize
By the Sydney Peace Foundation
“For work as an author, film-maker and journalist as well as for courage as a foreign and war correspondent in enabling the voices of the powerless to be heard. For commitment to peace with justice by exposing and holding governments to account for human rights abuses and for fearless challenges to censorship in any form.’ Continue
Make Wars History - Crime Reporting Campaign
MI5 men could face 'torture' perjury charge over Guantanamo prisoner (dailymail.co.uk)
Call For Inquiry Into Alleged UK Role In Torture (theherald.co.uk) *
Claims Of British Complicity In Torture Abroad: MPs And Peers Call For Independent Inquiry (news.sky.com)
BBC: International debate is needed on the use of autonomous military robots
The 44th president of the United States was elected amid hopes that he would roll back his country's global dominance. Today, he is commander-in-chief of an unprecedented network of military bases that is still expanding. (zmag.org)
Home Office says immigrants need to contribute to UK's "democratic life", but anti-war activism could count against you (guardian.co.uk)Panetta basically pardons the entire Bush administration. (rawstory.com)
The Economist forced to back down over lies on Venezuela and Bolivia (links.org.au)
Al Qaeda offers ceasefire in exchange for withdrawal from Afghanistan (abcnews.go.com)
US now "Coalition of the One" (google.com)
Has Iran 8 weeks left? After a joint American-Israeli exercise which included training on the in-flight refueling of Israeli F-16i attack jets by American airplanes, the US tells Israel that Iran has 8 weeks left (thenation.com)
Afghanistan: US up to its ears in trouble - The US is not just fighting the Taliban, they are fighting the Pashtun people (therealnews.com)
We welcome the new inquiry into the Iraq War – but with a few caveats.
Martin Deane says, "The Stop the War Coalition has consistently worked against the badly mistaken so-called War on Terror, especially against the War on Iraq knowing already how terribly people had suffered under US-UK sanctions and air attacks - and knowing the determination of the Bush administration to press for illegal regime change against Saddam Hussein.
"After 6 years of fighting in Iraq, British troops have finally been brought home often only to be sent back to Afghanistan - a conflict which also should have ended.
"The Butler Report completely exonerated Blair of any wrongdoing. We hope the Chilcot Inquiry doesn't repeat that mistake."
Even Lord Butler himself was not content with his Report alone and went public to say the dossiers on Hussein left out important caveats on the quality of intelligence and also regretted the “grave flaw” that Parliament “had insufficient control over the executive”.
Now we fear the Chilcot Inquiry will be another "stitch-up" since it :
Chilcot will fail to restore people’s faith in government if it does not officially reveal Blair’s role in deciding to go to war by early 2002. An honest inquiry will reflect more clearly how the Prime Minister made this early decision and how indeed intelligence, facts and dossiers were fixed, manipulated and moulded to get precisely that outcome.
Finally Chilcot should underscore the rule of international law and attack the specious last-minute legal justifications that the Blair government undertook.
"Prior to hostilities, the war on Iraq inspired the biggest peace demonstration in British history," Martin Deane goes on: "As the unfixed facts show, the British people were right and Bush and Blair were wrong."
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Notes
Martin Deane
Sec. Hull Stop the War Coalition
Butler Report
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3892809.stm
Butler - dossiers on Hussein left out caveats on quality of intelligence
had insufficient control over the executive.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2004/dec/10/uk.butler
Blair pressed for secret inquiry
