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14/. In 2011, Maj Gen Laurie who was involved in producing the Sept Iraq dossier, admitted that “the purpose of the dossier was precisely to make a case for war, rather than setting out the available intelligence” & “to make the best out of sparse & inconclusive intelligence”
14/. In 2011, Maj Gen Laurie who was involved in producing the Sept Iraq dossier, admitted that “the purpose of the dossier was precisely to make a case for war, rather than setting out the available intelligence” & “to make the best out of sparse & inconclusive intelligence”
20 years ago, Tony Blair said: “History will be my judge”
Now, as we mark #Iraq20YearsOn, we can judge for ourselves
I’m afraid, Tony, doesn’t look good
This thread reveals the grand deceit that took us to war
Ex IAEA head, @ElBaradei calls it an “indispensable read”
#IraqWar
@andrewfeinstein “It won’t cost you an arm or a leg…unless you’re a British solider or an Iraqi civilian”
In 2010, Tony Blair had to cancel the launch of his autobiography at Waterstones, Piccadilly, for fears of angry protests
I stuck these signs on my local @Waterstones
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“One of the people that wants to be on the board is Tony Blair. Good man. Very good man.”
(Donald Trump)
Blair has offered to lead the interim US-backed Gaza International Transitional Authority
#IraqWarIn100Tweets #Palestina #Israel #FGaza
Tony Blair, the former British PM who helped lead the 2003 invasion of Iraq, has reportedly been tipped to govern Gaza as part of US President Donald Trump’s 21-point peace plan. Al Jazeera's @soraya_lennie has the details.
24yrs ago as the wreckage of the Twin Towers still smouldered, Bush talked ‘Axis of Evil’ & laid out plans to invade Afghanistan
Gen Wesley Clark, ex-Supreme NATO Commander, recalls what a Pentagon General told him 10 days after 9/11👇#IraqWarIn100Tweets
🔴Tony Blair will always be remembered as the man who LIED Britain to war in Iraq, there were many others behind him.
Alaistair Campbell is the man most associated with ‘sexed up’ Sept 2002 dossier but Jonathan Powell - Blair’s Chief of Staff - also played a pivotal role.
@StefSimanowitz @iraqbodycount
🔴Tony Blair will always be remembered as the man who LIED Britain to war in Iraq, there were many others behind him.
Alaistair Campbell is the man most associated with ‘sexed up’ Sept 2002 dossier but Jonathan Powell - Blair’s Chief of Staff - also played a pivotal role.
@StefSimanowitz @iraqbodycount
@declassifiedUK @NortonTaylor @TaimourLay @kate4peace2021 @MadawiDr @BZephaniah @CliveSSmith 34/. Tweet number 34 in this thread has been deleted
It was not deleted by me as Twitter claims
Please see below the rest of this #IraqWarIn100Tweets thread👇
35/. Miraculously, John Scarlett - chair of the Joint Intelligence Committee & ‘author’ of the Sept dossier - made the “bit of a problem” go away
He removed the suggestion that Saddam Hussein would use chemical & biological weapons only if he was attacked https://t.co/6RKmF7HhAL
@nytimes @NathanJRobinson @iaeaorg @STWuk @mehdirhasan @ElBaradei @CNDuk @jeremyscahill @dylanotes @aaronjmate @NatashaBertrand @brianeno @MassiveAttackUK @theintercept @The_TUC @Lowkey0nline @AaronBastani @LauraPidcock @SalmaYaqoob @TariqAli_News @yanisvaroufakis @jeremycorbyn @IranObserver0 @DanCardenMP @KarlTurnerMP @BarryGardiner @Heidi_Labour @SenatorReid @Ilhan @IlhanMN @VoteGloriaJ @MrNishKumar @DoubleDownNews @RashidaTlaib @KenRoth @Harryslaststand @SusanSarandon @peacenowisrael @LindseyAGerman @HackneyAbbott @KerryBurgess @caitoz @Jay_Naidoo @codepink @PeterTatchell @tanita_tikaram @BernieSanders @SenSanders @BerniceKing @BantuHolomisa 44/. In 2003, the abject failure of journalists to do their jobs properly & to challenge the falsehoods being propagated by the US & UK govts smoothed the path for the invasion of Iraq
22 years on is the same thing happening with Iran?
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59/. "If we had done our job, I do think a strong argument could be made that perhaps we would not have gone to war"
Veteran journalist, @DanRather, speaking about the failure of journalism in the run up to the #Iraq invasion in @johnpilger’s 2010 documentary @WarYouDontSee
@yanisvaroufakis It was JD Vance in an interview with @unherd!
Check out this thread on the Iraq invasion #IraqWarIn100Tweets👇
“The entire #IraqWar wasn’t because they thought there were weapons of mass destruction. WMDs was the outcome of a focus group inside the Pentagon. How are we going to sell this war to the American people?” (Prof Jeffrey Sachs)
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