Iraq

Once more, we hear that America is being “sucked into a quagmire”. The rapacious adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan are going badly wrong.

Writing in the Daily Mirror, John Pilger reveals that both US Secretary of State Colin Powell and Bush’s closest adviser Condaleeza Rice said, in 2001, that Saddam Hussein was effectively disarmed and no threat – putting the lie to their own propaganda.

While we are allowed to read internal e-mails in Whitehall, we can’t see the traffic between Blair and Bush that would reveal the biggest lie of all.

Writing in the Independent on Sunday, John Pilger says that, while the Hutton inquiry into the death of David Kelly has revealed more evidence of the deception behind the attack on Iraq, a full public inquiry into why Britain went to war is now needed.

Writing in the Daily Mirror, John Pilger identifies the root cause of the bloody bombing of the UN compound in Baghdad, which Washington and London have blamed this on ‘extremists from outside’.

Blair and Straw dare to suggest that the millions who have rumbled the Bush gang are simply being “fashionably anti-American” – another desperate act by desperate men.

Forget Hutton. He will not reveal what the US and UK authorities really don’t want you to know: that radiation illnesses caused by uranium weapons are now common in Iraq.

When Greg Dyke attacked American television’s cheerleading coverage of Iraq, how did he manage to keep a straight face? The BBC gave even less voice to opposition views.

Even before the 2003 war, we were attacking Iraqi civilians with our inhumane economic sanctions. Yet where were the media protesting against this injustice?

Shareholders wanted the Mirror editor out long before the allegedly bogus photos. Does anyone care that the BBC and other papers fall for the hoaxes of US and UK rulers?