Iraq Options Paper: March 8, 2002 Memo from Overseas and Defence Secretariat

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* Despite sanctions, Iraq continues to develop WMD,. although our intelligence is poor. Saddam has used WMD in the past and could do so again if his regime were threatened, though there is no greater threat now than in recent years that Saddam will use WMD; and
* Saddam’s brutal regime remains in power and destablises the Arab and wider Islamic world.
We have two options. We could toughen the existing containment policy. This would increase the pressure on Saddanm [sic]. It would not reintegrate Iraq into the international community.
The US administration has lot faith in containment and is now considering regime change. The end states could either be a Sunni strongman or a representative government.

Lets take the WMD saga. Who sold Saddam the WMD?

US Senate's committee in 1992 said in a report that Ronald Reagan and George Bush Snr, sold materials including anthrax, VX nerve gas, West Nile fever germs, germs similar to tuberculosis and pneumonia and botulism until 1992.


On top of that our UK gov sold Pralidoxine which can be reverse engineered to create nerve gas.

But there is a question??? Will chemicals last for all of until 2002?  I am no boffin. 

In March 1988 Saddam gasses 5000 souls in Kurdish Halabja. the trans-shipment of these did not stop.

This assistance, according to the report, included 'chemical warfare-agent precursors, chemical warfare-agent production facility plans and technical drawings, chemical warfare filling equipment, biological warfare-related materials, missile fabrication equipment and missile system guidance equipment'. 

 Read this for the whole article

* Saddam’s brutal regime remains in power and destablises the Arab and wider Islamic world.

Well we made Middle East  more stable after taking Saddam, Gadaffi etc etc etc etc ...ha ha.

Check this for a another view by Scott Ritter

The Truth About US Troops “Sent to Iraq”

 Blimey this seems to be reasonable article. But my view, hmmm rather silly really...is this.

ISIS was attacking Syrian government and the NATO and the rest by populous demand could to support the Sunnis. The armament supply dried out for them. If they let ISIS take over the Sunni areas in North Iraq where there is lot of AMerican made armament to loot and use against the Syrians. am i going looney?

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-truth-about-us-troops-sent-to-iraq/5387328

Iraq war revisited

I thought I have to write this after reading an article about the Iraq war and how various governments in both sides of the Atlantic tried to white wash  suppressing of the incredible intelligence; to promote the war.

In March 2009 I wrote a blog about the intelligence made at the time of preparation to go to war was false in my blog:

http://always-myown.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/intelligence-made-it-clear-saddam-was.html


On 27th june 2009 I blogged about a secret memo about the meeting between then  president of US and PM of UK written by Foreign policy advisor to Blair, David manning. read in my blog:

http://always-myown.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/iraq-memo-bush-blair-wmds.html

Remarkable coincidence in 12th january 2010 it was reparted that netherlands cooperated with the war illegally after an unbiased inquiry. It was reported by BBC in:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8453305.stm#startcontent


On 8th july 2009 I wrote in my blog about Dr. Kelly, weapons inspector in Iraq. He knew that Iraq did not have chemical weapons and he was asked to leave the country while the investigations were ongoing. He was going to write his memoirs before he was unlawfully killed. Read about this in my blogs:
http://always-myown.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/david-kelly.html

and

http://always-myown.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/dr-david-kellys-death.html


Now the similarity of Syrian civil war and Iraq war is clearly the same.But at the time of this blog we in the West has not gone and put our bloody boots in the soverign state of Syria. But check the similarities in this blog:

Here

Last week a little more was learned as to the circumventions in Whitehall and Washington delaying the publication of the findings of Sir John Chilcot’s marathon Inquiry in to the background of the Iraq invasion.

The UK’s Chilcot Inquiry, was convened under then Prime Minister Gordon Brown, to establish the decisions taken by the UK government and military, pre and post invasion. It ran from 24th November 2009 until 2nd February 2011 and cost an estimated £7.5 million. The as yet unpublished Report is believed to run to 1000,000 words.

The stumbling block – more of an Israeli-style “separation barrier” in reality – has been the correspondence between Tony Blair and George W. Bush, prior to an invasion and occupation, which former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan finally told the BBC was: “illegal” and that: “painful lessons” had been learned. (BBC 16th September 2004.) “Lessons” clearly not learned by the current British government.

The communications, in Sir John Chilcot’s words to former Cabinet Secretary Lord O’Donnell related to: “The question when and how the Prime Minister (Tony Blair) made commitments to the US about the UK’s involvement in military action in Iraq, and subsequent decisions on the UK’s continuing involvement, is central to its considerations.”(Guardian 17th July 2013.)

Further: “Chilcot said the release of notes of the conversations between Blair and Bush would serve to ‘illuminate Mr Blair’s position at critical points’ in the run up to war.”

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