Bush & Blair Planned to Create Justification for
Their Illegal War on Iraq

Comment by Larry Ross, April 3, 2006

The Whitehouse memo shows Bush and Blair had lots of testimony based on UN inspection that there were no WMD or a nuclear weapons in Iraq. But they decided to make war based on the lie that there were WMD in Iraq, even though that would not be a valid excuse for war in any case. Some of the other lies invented to justify the war were that Saddam had links to al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, and that Saddam was connected to the attack on 9/11, and that Saddam was a threat to the US, UK. None of this was true and Bush and Blair had no evidence for their lies.

Nevertheless both lied to their publics and governments in order to get support for their war.

Now they are planning to do it again to justify a war with Iran.

This memo gives a rare insight into the lengths both leaders are willing to go in order to justify and continue to this day their illegal war which has already killed at least 100,000 people, decimated and poisoned the country and cost hundreds of billions of dollars.

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Bush, Blair had ‘no evidence’ of Iraq WMDs: lawyer

Reporter: Tony Jones, by Phillipe Sands, March 31, 2006

It's extremely rare, to get this kind of an insight of an extremely private, we should say secret meeting between two leaders preparing for a coming war. Tell us what you think are the main insights to be gained from the so-called White House memo?

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
TV PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT
LOCATION: http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2006/s1605153.htm
Broadcast: 31/03/2006

TONY JONES: Phillipe Sands, thanks for being there.

PHILIPPE SANDS, INTERNATIONAL LAWYER AND AUTHOR: Delighted to join you again.

TONY JONES: Yes, indeed. It's extremely rare, isn't it, to get this kind of an insight of an extremely private, we should say secret meeting between two leaders preparing for a coming war. Tell us what you think are the main insights to be gained from the so-called White House memo?

PHILIPPE SANDS: Well, I think there are two really crucial issues. Firstly, the memo of the meeting of 31 January, which has not been challenged - its authenticity hasn't been attacked in any way, the contents haven't been attacked - confirms the decision to go to war had already been taken by President Bush, in terms irrespective of whether or not there was a second resolution. And the British PM does not demur from that decision. Secondly but I think even more significantly, the memo effectively confirms that there was no evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. I think it's clear that the material indicates that both President Bush and the PM had a belief that there were weapons of mass destruction there but they didn't actually have any evidence. And that's why they engaged in the type of conversation that relates to putting up spy planes because they needed to do something to provoke some Iraqi reaction in order to justify, if you like, a second resolution.

TONY JONES: I'll come to the detail of all of this in a moment. First, I've got to ask you, how were you able to verify that this memo is, in fact, the genuine article? As you say, it hasn't been denied by either of the two leaders but it hasn't been confirmed, either.

PHILIPPE SANDS: Well the New York Times reported this past Monday and they've obviously been doing their own ferreting around two senior British officials, confirming the authenticity of the material. So there's independent verification. For my own part as an academic, I have to check my sources very carefully. As a member of the English bar I have to check that my facts are accurate and I satisfied myself and indeed nothing in the book has been challenged in relation to its accuracy. I think you can rely on it as accurate.

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