The Killing$ of Tony Blair is now on Netflix
Go watch it.
If you have netflix it ont cost you a penny and you will be supporting an independent documentary.
For those of you paying attention at the time, not much of what happened will come as a surprise (though the money Tony Blair Inc has made since leaving office might be a surprise to some), but there are many younger viewers who may not have as clear a recollection or awareness of events that happened at the time.
PS everyone at the time knew that the intel was a farce. No one believed it. If anyone says they thought otherwise, they are lying.
WE ARE MANY - Official Trailer- In UK Cinemas nationwide from 21 May 2015
On February 15, 2003, millions of ordinary citizens in over 800 cities around the world poured into the streets to protest against the rush towards the invasion of Iraq
According to BBC News, 6 to 10 million people took part in protests in up to 60 countries, on every continent, over the weekend of the 15th and 16th of February 2003. Other reports estimated the actual number was closer to 30 million. Protesters from Tasmania to Iceland, New York to Sydney, and London to Rome, marched against the impending war in Iraq. Even at the McMurdo base in Antarctica, more than 50 scientists staged a half-hour rally.
It has been described as “the biggest and most widespread collective protest the world has ever seen.” This film will unveil the drama, emotion, magnitude and testimonies of a historic day.
America is not leaving Iraq with its dignity intact.
America is officially ended its "war operations" in Iraq with a flag ceremony.
They make it look so dignified, as if a lot of what they did there can be whitewashed and ignored.
Unforetunately we cant do anything about what has happened but we can remember.
Hotter Than a Pile of Curry has reminded me about Fallujah and what happened there.
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This video is the first that I have seen that points out that that filmed execution in the mosque was not the first one - it was only the first after the cameraman had managed to turn on his camera - he had shot 4 others before the camera was turned on and this was not a live battle - these people were injured that had been left there by Americans in the mosque the day earlier, and now one went in and executed them all.
The comments on that video are also disgusting.
Back to the title - America is not leaving America with its dignity intact. That is if it is leaving at all.
MP Stephen Timms stabbed 'in revenge for Iraq war'
A woman stabbed Labour MP Stephen Timms twice at a constituency surgery in revenge for his vote for the Iraq war, the Old Bailey has heard.
The Labour MP for East Ham said he thought Roshonara Choudhry wanted to shake hands when she smiled before lunging at him in Newham on 14 May.
Miss Choudhry told police she wanted "to get revenge for the people of Iraq", prosecutors said.
Read more @ BBC News
Dispatches: Iraq's Secret War Files
This was broadcast last night and if you missed it, you have 29 days to watch it here.
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Quite damning - involving torture, murder, mass murder and all round cowardice by the coalition forces and Iraqi Police and Iraqi Army.
Support our troops? Not when they do this!
The MoD is furious that wikileaks has released many documents about the Iraq War.
They are furious as incidents like this one where a British soldier murdered an 8 year old girl as she played in the street have a very slight chance of becoming public knowledge:
...Lawyer Phil Shiner said the murder happened while soldiers were handing out sweets to children.
He said: "The tank stopped at the end of the street, she's there in her yellow dress, a rifleman pops up and blows her away."...
So, to those that say "you should support our troops", I ask, do they support murder?
How can the Iraq War be considered anything other than a complete success for the US?
When listening to the Let's Talk show on the Muslim World, the guest on the show mentioned how the US was leaving Iraq in defeat and other Muslims seems to be of the same view too...
but is that not foolish to think the US is leaving in failure and instead never got exactly what it went?
Firstly its not a withdrawal (as there are still 50,000 troops there and some permanent bases have been built...) and secondlt, I would question wether it really is defeat too.
To assume that it is losing in failure, you have to assume or accept that America is not getting exactly what it wanted in Iraq - a state of general chaos.
ex-MI5 chief (finally?) admits that the Iraq war increased terrorism threat to UK
Probably shouldbe from the department of the obvious, but this is also I think the first time anyone involved with government or policy anywhere in the UK has stated it so big news.
I doubt we will be able to get Blair to hang for this - we could do with a good lynching, but he is way too slippery to get caught out by things like facts and the truth.
Read all about it @ The Guardian
How Goldsmith changed advice on legality of war
For seven years, Britain has wanted to see how the legal case for invading Iraq was made. Yesterday, at a public inquiry that is going on unnoticed, official documents were released for the first time that showed the grave reservations of the Attorney General, his remarkable U-turn, and how the basis for the Iraq war was built on sand
By Kim Sengupta, Defence Correspondent
Read more @ The Independent