Following the “moral crusade” in the Balkans, there were calls for heretics to apologise. It was reminiscent of the hysteria surrounding the death of Diana Spencer and, like the froth on a cappuccino, blew away once reality was restored. The crusaders have now fallen silent, many realising they were gulled and lied to.
In Baghdad, the babies are dying: there’s no anaesthetic, no antibiotics, no clean water, and sometimes no breast milk
On 26 March the New Statesman published a letter by Derek Fatchett, the Foreign Office minister, objecting to my suggestion that the enforced suffering of the people of Iraq by the US and British governments was a crime comparable with those of General Pinochet or General Suharto or Henry Kissinger.
Iraq: yet again, they are lying to us
The Foreign Office repeatedly hides the truth from the public: on Cambodia, on East Timor, on arms sales and now on sanctions.
Sanctions on Iraq kill 200 children every day; bombing raids have cost the taxpayer
Last August, the defence minister John Spellar described the no-fly zones over Iraq as “international zones, designed by the international community”. This is false.
Turkey, which has killed 30,000 Kurds, has now invaded northern Iraq
This month, two extraordinary men came to London and spoke about a silent holocaust, and not a word of what they said was reported.
Robin Cook’s lies are worthy of David Irving, while the government perpetrates crimes against humanity
The Foreign Office continues to send out its standard dissembling letter on Iraq. Dozens of copies have been forwarded to me by members of the public bemused or angered by the contempt in which they are clearly held by the civil servants responsible.
Try as he might, Robin Cook cannot give credence to his vast lies
The facts of Iraq’s epic suffering are now unassailable. The latest report by Unicef says that half a million young children have died in eight years of economic sanctions. That represents almost 200 deaths every day.
In the Gulf war, every last nail was accounted for, but the Iraqi dead went untallied. At last their story is being told
The great American reporter Seymour Hersh is at war with the American military over his j’accuse in the New Yorker that a much-lauded general, now a member of President Clinton’s cabinet, ordered his troops to fire on retreating Iraqis on the eve of the Gulf war ceasefire in 1991.
Iraq: the great cover-up
On the eve of an election campaign, the Blair government is attempting,with mounting desperation, to suppress a scandal potentially greater than the arms-to-Iraq cover-up. This is the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, perhaps many more, caused by decisions taken in Whitehall and Washington.
The Peter Hains beware…
While his more senior colleagues in Whitehall and Washington understandably fall silent on the mounting deaths in Iraq, the Foreign Office minister Peter Hain has become a strangely aggressive voice in promoting the failed and lethal embargo.
