"We all knew..."

[kpete]

Gen Sir Mike Jackson attacks US over Iraq
By Con Coughlin and Neil Tweedie
Last Updated: 11:56am BST 01/09/2007

General Sir Mike Jackson, the head of the British Army during the invasion of Iraq, has launched a scathing attack on the United States for the way it handled the post-war administration of the country.

The former chief of the general staff said the approach taken by Donald Rumsfeld, the then US defence secretary, was "intellectually bankrupt", describing his claim that US forces "don't do nation-building" as "nonsensical".

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Sir Mike also reveals that he and other senior officers had doubts about the weapons of mass destruction dossier presented by the Blair government in late 2002.

"Its release caused a stir in military circles," reveals Sir Mike, particularly the suggestion that the UK could face a threat of attack at 45 minutes' notice. "We all knew that it was impossible for Iraq to threaten the UK mainland. Saddam's Scud missiles could barely have reached our bases on Cyprus, and certainly no more distant target."

more at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=D3FUEFGXZCSRVQFIQMGCFGGAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2007/09/01/wirq101.xml

[pocoloco]

1. A hell of a lot of people knew!!!

Or should have known and therefore became accomplices because of their ignorance or support!

[peacetalksforall]

3. You mean, like Sen John Warner and all the Dems and Republicans

who approved the killing, torture, and destruction?
And are about to do it AGAIN?

[peacetalksforall]

2. Yep, we knew. We read and applied common sense. The PNACers

forgot that some in this country were raised to feed and protect their common sense and had learned some deductive reasoning.

And we dug and shared. To bring to each other the words and opinions of good spokespeople-true experts - here, in the U.K, and in the U.N. whose work didn't count on corporate tv and could barely be heard over the White House bugles - NYT, WP, WSJ, USA Today.

So, now, will the U.K. replace N. Korea in the axis of evil? Said in jest since we know that the spy world is the U.S. and U.K., primarily (along with Israel and the Echelon countries).