{"id":255851,"date":"2016-07-14T07:41:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T07:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-great-iraq-war-fraud\/"},"modified":"2016-07-14T22:01:18","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T22:01:18","slug":"the-great-iraq-war-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/the-great-iraq-war-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Iraq War Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last week, seven years after the Iraq Inquiry<\/a> was set up, Sir John Chilcot finally delivered his long-awaited report<\/a>. Although it stopped short of declaring the Iraq war illegal<\/a>, and although it failed to examine the real motives for war<\/a>, the report was not quite the whitewash that had been feared by peace campaigners.<\/p>\n

Lindsey German, convenor of the Stop the War Coalition, gave<\/a> a succinct summary of the Chilcot report, listing four of the main findings (each followed by our own comment):<\/p>\n

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1. There was no imminent threat to Britain from Saddam Hussein, so war in March 2003 was unnecessary.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In reality<\/strong>: utterly devastated by war, bombing and 12 years of sanctions, Iraq posed no threat whatsoever towards Britain or the US. The idea that there was any kind of threat from this broken, impoverished country was simply a lie; a propaganda fabrication by warmongering cynics and corporate hangers-on eager for a piece of the pie.<\/p>\n

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2. The existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was presented with a certainty that was not justified. It was never \u2018beyond doubt\u2019 that the weapons existed. None have been found in the subsequent 13 years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In reality<\/strong>: it was completely clear, beyond any reasonable doubt, that the whole \u2018weapons of mass destruction\u2019 issue was a propaganda fabrication; a way of suggesting a \u2018threat\u2019 where none existed. Iraq only ever possessed battlefield biological and chemical weapons that were of no conceivable threat to the West. Iraq didn\u2019t…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Last week, seven years after the Iraq Inquiry was set up, Sir John Chilcot finally delivered his long-awaited report. Although it stopped short of declaring the Iraq war illegal, and although it failed to examine the real motives for war, the report was not quite the whitewash that had been feared by peace campaigners. Lindsey […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-255851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire","7":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}