British PM ignored warnings Iraq war would help terrorists

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030912/wl_mideast_afp/britain_iraq_inquiry&cid=1514&ncid=1473

LONDON (AFP) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites) came under pressure to explain why he ignored warnings from British intelligence that a war on Iraq would make it easier for terrorists to get hold of weapons of mass destruction.

The revelation came out of a 57-page report by the Intelligence and Security Committee, a cross-party parliamentary panel that oversees the work of Britain's three main intelligence agencies.

It said an assessment last February by the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), which brings together British intelligence chiefs, concluded there was no evidence that Iraq had funneled chemical or biologial weapons to al-Qaeda.

"The JIC assessed that al-Qaeda and associated groups continued to represent by far the greatest terrorist threat to Western interests, and that threat would be heightened by military action against Iraq," it added Thursday.

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[emad]

1. Given his impeccable record of aiding and abetting terrorists in the

Irish Republican Army and its associated cohorts, this is hardly surprising. He's a born appeaser, no different to other British fascists who gave Hitler a makeover, whitewashed UK collusion with Franco and Mussolini supporters and promoted the Queen Mother as the nation's endearing darling grandmother.

[LivingInTheBubble]

2. He ignored it

because he knew there were no WMDs!

Thats what I thought when I heard the news.

[Nlighten1]

3. PM ignored it and BUSH ignored it.

Don't forget it takes two to tango.

[underpants]

4. It didn't matter their minds were already made up for them

Bush :eyes: was told what to do and Blair follwed W for God knows what reason(Brit co.'s aren't getting a cut of the pie in Iraq).

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[underpants]

7. Welcome to DU

:hi:

But that really needs a *Warning* on it.

[bvar22]

8. And what does "the radical Islamist thugs "...

...have to do with Sadam and Iraq???
You might as well blame Iraq for Pearl Harbor.

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[Capt_Nemo]

11. No, timber

your ignorance of history and geopolitics makes you unable to
"explain" anything about 9/11.

Go learn history.

[Zero Gravitas]

18. What does this have to do with Iraq?

[TahitiNut]

32. "we"??

Does timber have termites? :eyes:

[Mal]

12. You deserved it.

Or haven't you read your own history?
1953 : US overthrows PM of Iran, installs Shah as dictator
1954 : US overthrows PM of Guatemala, 200,000 civilians killed
1963 : US backs murder of South Vietnamese president
1963-1975 : US military kills 4,000,000 civilians in SE Asia
Sept 11, 1973 : US stages coup in Chile. President assasinated. Augusto Pinochet installed. 5000 Chileans murdered
1977 : US backs military leaders of El Salvador. 70,000 Salvadorans die.
1981 : US sponsors 'Contras'. 30,000 Nicaraguans die.
1982 : US gives billions to Iraq (Saddam) for weapons to fight Iran.
1983 : US secretly provides weapons to Iran to fight Iraq.
1989 : CIA agent Manuel Noriega (also president of Pananma) disobeys orders from Washinton. US invades and overthrows Noriega. 3000 Panamanian civilians die.
1998 : Clinton bombs "Weapons Factory" in Sudan. Factory turns out to make asparin.

Count the deaths above, then tell me why I should care about your towers falling down.

[Capt_Nemo]

15. Beat it to me by a minute Mal

and even more detailed. congrats! ;-)

[Mal]

19. From an editorial in our local paper

(the NEwcastle Morning Herald) after the author had watched Micheal Moore's "Bowling for Columbine". Fortunately my girlfriend had decided she wanted to keep the article, so it was handy.

That also establishes my source.

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[Capt_Nemo]

26. So you deny those FACTS based on who states them

that is the same rationalization process of holocaust deniers...

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[Mal]

27. What did the Iranians do?

The Guatemalans? the SE Asians? the Chileans? the Salvadorans? but obviously I'm wasting my breath. You don't give a damn about non-yanks? Well, I watched those towers fall, live. I never shed a tear. You want to live by the sword? Then you can die on the bloody thing.

[underpants]

29. No one said they deserved it moran

Stop watching Fox or at least realize you are being lied to.

No one deserves that which is the point.

[Beetwasher]

31. I WAS THERE! WHERE WERE YOU?

Did you even read the story you responded too! The Iraq war HELPED THE FUCKING TERRORISTS!! It's helping them recruit more terrorists, it's allowing them to regroup while our attention and resources are turned elsewhere. What is it about the fact that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 that you don't get? And don't show me any more pictures of the towers. I was there that day, I saw it live. I saw those people jumping out of windows live. I'm lucky to be alive after having to dodge pieces of flaming falling debris. Where were you? If you feel so strongly, then sign the fuck up and go die for your country.

[Capt_Nemo]

13. The pople of Chili didn't deserve it either in 9/11 of 1973

The people of Iran didn't deserve it in 1953

The people of Congo didn't deserve it in 1960

The people of Indonesia didn't deserve it in 1965

The people of East Timor didn't deserve it in 1975

Sometimes, what goes arround comes arround...

[Mal]

6. Anyone half-informed

with half a brain and half an education already knew attacking Iraq would only help those the US defines as terrorists.
Admittedly, those qualifications do seem to rule out the majority of US citizens.

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[AWD]

14. Thanks!

Your pictures have convinced me that we SHOULD be killing Iraqi children and women. They deserve to die!!

Sound of a falling freeper....timberrrrrrrrrrrrr

[Spentastic]

16. That's the very point.

It does. You just pretend it only matters if it happens to Americans.

[bvar22]

17. Yes...It can and will get much, much worse...

...if the US continues the course set by the current administration.

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[underpants]

21. Now I went and was all nice to you at the beginning

:grr:

[Capt_Nemo]

23. The way you advocate will not stop terrorism and

will bankrupt the US, which is fine my be because it will enable
us on the outside to gang up on the US and force it to stop the
bullying.
Go ahead, make my day!

[gratuitous]

25. So, where are you serving, Soldier?

You are in the military, aren't you? You're not just some REMF or GI Jane wannabe letting other people do the killing you're too squeamish to do for yourself, are you?

[Beetwasher]

30. Can you be anymore IGNORANT

Did you even read the story you responded too! The Iraq war HELPED THE FUCKING TERRORISTS!! It's helping them recruit more terrorists, it's allowing them to regroup while our attention and resources are turned elsewhere. What is it about the fact that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 that you don't get? And don't show me any more pictures of the towers. I was there that day, I saw it live. I saw those people jumping out of windows live. I'm lucky to be alive after having to dodge pieces of flaming falling debris. Where were you? If you feel so strongly, then sign the fuck up and go die for your country.

[bvar22]

28. Hey, Timber....

Why do you and those like you hate America so much???

[TahitiNut]

33. Dry rot? Termites? One could only wonder.

:eyes:

[VolcanoJen]

34. Dupe... locking

Please continue here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=110368&mesg_id=110368

This was actually posted first by kskiska here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=110207

on Thursday night, but the thread above has the most responses.

Thanks!
VolcanoJen
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