Patrick Martin, wsws.org, Nov 28, 2009
While the American corporate media has given little attention to it, an official British inquiry into the war with Iraq has brought to light damning testimony about the Bush administration’s deliberate launching of an invasion to overthrow the regime of Saddam Hussein and subjugate Iraq to American domination.
Former British diplomats and security officials from the 2001-2003 period began testifying this week under oath before a panel headed by Sir John Chilcot, charged with examining the entire course of the war, from its origins to the final British pullout in June 2009.
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US imperialism, 9/11 and the Iraq war
Patrick Martin, wsws.org, Nov 28, 2009
While the American corporate media has given little attention to it, an official British inquiry into the war with Iraq has brought to light damning testimony about the Bush administration’s deliberate launching of an invasion to overthrow the regime of Saddam Hussein and subjugate Iraq to American domination.
Former British diplomats and security officials from the 2001-2003 period began testifying this week under oath before a panel headed by Sir John Chilcot, charged with examining the entire course of the war, from its origins to the final British pullout in June 2009.
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Tags: Barack Obama, Bush administration leaders and Iraq, Bush and Blair meeting, Bush ready for war in 2002, Condoleezza Rice, invasion of Iraq, Iraq war inquiry, Jeremy Greenstock's testimony, no WMD, regime change plans, war in Afghanistan
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