BUSH'S Iraq Invasion Was A WAR CRIME! But He's Back On the Ranch, Calmly Boozin' Himself To Sleep At Night Whenever His Conscience Bothers Him!
AllahTheConstipatedRapist
House. She's living in the new Dallas home.
Asked about Iraq, the country which he, Cheney, Rice, Franks,
Wolfowitz, and the other Bushies saw destroyed, but in which the U.S.
still has over 100,000 troops that are trapped there indefinitely,
your ex-White House war criminal reportedly said, "Listen, we did what
we had to do to bring democracy to that nation. All wars cause dead
people."
Okay, people, you satisfied with that?
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"Ex-British envoy questions legitimacy of Iraq invasion"
By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 29, 2009
The March 2003 military invasion of Iraq was "legal but of
questionable legitimacy" because the U.N. Security Council had not
voted to support it, a former top British diplomat said last week at a
parliamentary inquiry examining Britain's role in the war.
Jeremy Greenstock, the British ambassador to the United Nations from
1998 to 2003, told the inquiry that he had favored waiting until
October 2003 before resorting to force. He said the French in March
were proposing a three- to four-month ultimatum to Baghdad, and the
Saudis and other Arab governments were interested in working to get
Saddam Hussein to go into exile.
But, he said, "the soldiers probably wanted to get on with it," and
the United States "did not want to start a military operation in the
summer months."
Asked whether he thought "the military tail was wagging the diplomatic
dog," Greenstock answered, "Yes, of course."
The parliamentary inquiry is being conducted by a committee of privy
counselors, appointed by Prime Minister Gordon Brown and chaired by
John Chilcot, a career civil servant. The panel is to look at the run-
up to the Iraq war, from summer 2001 to the fighting, and then to the
aftermath, through July 31, 2009.
The purpose, Chilcot said in July, is to study "the way decisions were
made and actions taken, to establish, as accurately as possible, what
happened and to identify the lessons that can be learned."
Greenstock told the panel on Friday that the U.S. and British attack
in March 2003 was "legal but of questionable legitimacy in that it
didn't have the democratically observable backing of a great majority
of [United Nations] member states or even perhaps a majority of people
inside the United Kingdom."
He said any attempt to take more time to resolve the standoff over
Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction was overcome by the United
States, which was "much too strong for us to counter." Greenstock
pointed out that some in the U.S. government viewed Iraq's statement
to the United Nations on Dec. 7, 2001, that it had no weapons of mass
destruction as adequate cause to go to war.
He said that although the British thought the use of force "could not
be justified unless every other avenue had been tried to bring Iraq
into compliance" with U.N. resolutions barring Iraq from maintaining
such weapons, "there were those in the [Bush] administration who
thought that was a waste of time."
In the fall of 2002, when it was still not clear the proponents of the
invasion would wait for the United Nations to act, Greenstock said he
considered stepping aside. "I myself warned the Foreign Office in
October that I might have to consider my own position if that was the
way things went."
In November 2002, however, when agreement was reached on a resolution
sending inspectors back into Iraq, "I did not feel that by March I
could represent in my argument in the Security Council that the
inspectors had had enough time," he said.
Despite the efforts of Greenstock and John D. Negroponte, then the
U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, they could not get a majority
vote in March from Security Council members to support the use of
force against Hussein.
In unsuccessfully pushing for a delay until October, Greenstock argued
that there was a chance of finding a smoking gun, because he thought
Iraq was hiding its chemical and biological weapons, much as it tried
to hide fighter planes by burying them in the desert.
He also said he hoped that through the delay he could "establish an
unambiguous, an undisputed legal basis for the use of force if
everybody agreed that Saddam was not cooperating satisfactorily."
After the invasion, extensive searches did not turn up any weapons of
mass destruction.
The inquiry was adjourned until Monday.
During his testimony, Greenstock pointed out one problem with trying
to enforce economic sanctions, using as an example Iraq's smuggling
out of oil to nearby countries. Asked why Syria was not questioned
about Iraqi oil going through its borders, Greenstock said, "The point
about smuggling was that it was proceeding, not just through Syria but
through Turkey and Jordan as well."
He added that a crackdown on Syria would require going after the other
two countries, and both talked "mostly in private, but sometimes in
public, about the economic cost of stopping the smuggling channels and
wanted compensation for that."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/28/AR2009112802423.html
Ralph Waldo
war criminal Bush abandoned to take a shot at Iraqi oil.
Now Obama, a guy we thought was smarter than Dumya, is fixin' to
expand an already unwinnable war in The Graveyard of Empires.
Wonder if Barack has spoken to Russia's Dmitry Medvedev and/or
Vladimir Putin about Afghanistan and Russia?
mediumTITS
attacks were characterized and described by various fine arts folks as
"works of art" for their success and almost flawless execution. On
Bush's watch!
Almost likewise, the still-alive Fort Hood killer DID achieve his
original mission, whether it was ordered by Islamic crazies or
internally inspired from within Major Nidal Malik Hasan.
So, instead of directing your knee-jerk, childish and petulant disgust
and hatred at the perpetrator(s), you shallow-thinkers should lay
blame where it ought to have been brought after 9/11 -- at the once-
United States' sorry security and intelligence agencies (FBI, CIA,
DOD, etc.) that enabled both horrors to take place!