Blair Lied In Order To Make War In Iraq
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On the eve of the Chilcot inquiry
into Britain’s involvement in the 2003 invasion and its aftermath, The Sunday
Telegraph has obtained
hundreds of pages of secret Government reports on “lessons learnt” which
shed new light on “significant shortcomings” at all levels. They include full transcripts of
extraordinarily frank classified interviews in which
British
Army commanders vent their frustration and anger with ministers and
Whitehall officials.
Tony Blair, the former prime minister, misled MPs and the public throughout 2002 when he claimed that Britain’s objective was “disarmament, not regime change” and that there had been no planning for military action. In fact, British military planning for a full invasion and regime change began in February 2002.
The need to conceal this from Parliament and all but “very small numbers” of officials “constrained” the planning process. The result was a “rushed”operation “lacking in coherence and resources” which caused “significant risk” to troops and “critical failure” in the post-war period.
Operations were so under-resourced that some troops went into action with only five bullets each. Others had to deploy to war on civilian airlines, taking their equipment as hand luggage. Some troops had weapons confiscated by airport security.
Commanders reported that the Army’s main radio system “tended to drop out at around noon each day because of the heat”. One described the supply chain as “absolutely appalling”, saying: “I know for a fact that there was one container full of skis in the desert.”
The Foreign Office unit to plan for postwar Iraq was set up only in late February, 2003, three weeks before the war started.
The plans “contained no detail once Baghdad had fallen”, causing a “notable loss of momentum” which was exploited by insurgents. Field commanders raged at Whitehall’s “appalling” and “horrifying” lack of support for reconstruction, with one top officer saying that the Government “missed a golden opportunity” to win Iraqi support. Another commander said: “It was not unlike 1750s colonialism where the military had to do everything ourselves.”
The documents emerge two days before public hearings begin in the Iraq Inquiry, the tribunal appointed under Sir John Chilcot, a former Whitehall civil servant, to “identify lessons that can be learnt from the Iraq conflict”.
Senior military officers and relatives of the dead have warned Sir John against a “whitewash”.
The documents consist of dozens of “post-operational reports” written by commanders at all levels, plus two sharply-worded “overall lessons learnt” papers – on the war phase and on the occupation – compiled by the Army centrally.
The analysis of the war phase describes it as a “significant military success” but one achieved against a “third-rate army”. It identifies a long list of “significant” weaknesses and notes: “A more capable enemy would probably have punished these shortcomings severely.”
The analysis of the occupation describes British reconstruction plans as “nugatory” and “hopelessly optimistic”.
It says that coalition forces were “ill-prepared and equipped to deal with the problems in the first 100 days” of the occupation, which turned out to be “the defining stage of the campaign”. It condemns the almost complete absence of contingency planning as a potential breach of Geneva Convention obligations to safeguard civilians.
The leaked documents bring into question statements that Mr Blair made to Parliament in the build up to the invasion. On July 16 2002, amid growing media speculation about Britain’s future role in Iraq, Mr Blair was asked: “Are we then preparing for possible military action in Iraq?” He replied: “No.”
Introducing the now notorious dossier on Iraq’s supposed weapons of mass destruction, on Sept 24, 2002, Mr Blair told MPs: “In respect of any military options, we are not at the stage of deciding those options but, of course, it is important — should we get to that point — that we have the fullest possible discussion of those options.”
In fact, according to the documents, “formation-level planning for a [British] deployment [to Iraq] took place from February 2002”.
The documents also quote Maj Gen Graeme Lamb, the director of special forces during the Iraq war, as saying: “I had been working the war up since early 2002.”
The leaked material also includes sheaves of classified verbatim transcripts of one-to-one interviews with commanders recently returned from Iraq – many critical of the Whitehall failings that were becoming clear. At least four commanders use the same word – “appalling” – to describe the performance of the Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence.
Documents describe the “inability to restore security early during the occupation” as the “critical failure” of the deployment and attack the “absence of UK political direction” after the war ended.
One quotes a senior British officer as saying: “The UK Government, which spent millions of pounds on resourcing the security line of operations, spent virtually none on the economic one, on which security depended.”
Many of the documents leaked to The Sunday Telegraph deal with key questions for Sir John Chilcot and his committee, such as whether planning was adequate, troops properly equipped and the occupation mishandled, and will almost certainly be seen by the inquiry.
However, it is not clear whether they will be published by it.
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It sounds pretty normal. Chilcot is doing the inquiry because Chilcot is no
bloody good.
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www.liveleak.com/view?i=306_1258936931"Polls in The Mail Sunday and the Sunday Times showed 61 percent and 54 percent ... on the BBC for its report by Andrew Gilligan. Protesters burned a copy ..."
84. Nearly 40% of Brits Want Blair To Resign Following Suicide of Gov ...
books.google.com/books?id=W2XWKKNkC5gC&pg=PT245&lpg=PT245&dq=Andrew+Gilligan+Iraq.+Sunday+Telegraph&source=bl&ots=kTimUKgsbV&sig=e6Qlb0HGsTtTAetivuKNE1MvSY4&hl=en"Iraq intelligence scandal grows in London as reporters ask Blair if he has ... Andrew Gilligan, BBC defense correspondent filing a report on May 29 that ... chief political correspondent for the London Telegraph I want to start with ..."
86. Whose Agenda?
www.democracynow.org/2003/7/22/nearly_40_of_brits_want_blair"The BBC political editor, meanwhile, told the Sunday Telegraph that ... BBC over Andrew Gilligan's claim that the government had knowingly published false ..."
87. Mein-Parteibuch.org » The Cat's News Ticker
ics.leeds.ac.uk/papers/pmt/exhibits/1759/Whose_agenda.pdf"22 Nov 2009 ... On 22 November 2009, Andrew Gilligan, in The Sunday Telegraph, Secret papers ... British military planning for Iraq regime change began in . ..."
88. JamesBowman.net | The Wages of Spin
www.mein-parteibuch.org/blog/the-cats-news-ticker/2009-11-22/"From the moment that Andrew Gilligan made his allegation that Downing Street had "sexed up" ... involvement in the war in Iraq and the government which had taken the decision to join it, ... As the Sunday Telegraph editorialized, Kelly ..."
89. CNN.com - Transcripts
www.jamesbowman.net/articleDetail.asp?pubID=1452"27 Jun 2003 ... The death of six troops in Iraq is provoking fresh criticism of the ... CON CONKLIN, "THE DAILY TELEGRAPH": Well, I think there's an element of ... The complaint seems to be that Andrew Gilligan's suggestion that the ..."
90. Mideast Dispatch Archive: “Orwell's warning: The BBC is blind to ...
transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0306/27/i_c.01.html"The War in Iraq has left in its wake a string of embarrassments for the BBC that have many .... But as sometime BBC commentator Janet Daley wrote in the Telegraph, ... On May 29 of this year, Andrew Gilligan reported on BBC Radio 4's "Today" ... Three days later, in an article in the Mail on Sunday, Gilligan named ..."
91. Will Greg Dyke and Gavyn Davies have their names cleared if Iraq ...
www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/000230.html"25 Nov 2009 ... Andrew Gilligan has returned to haunt the government on Iraq. His revelations in the Sunday Telegraph and today's Telegraph tell us a lot ..."
92. KitaKameK
article.wn.com/view/WNAT38BA66E6EC75062549A7B094DF432CDF/"By Andrew Gilligan. In the papers, the British chief of staff in Iraq, ... Yesterday the Sunday Telegraph told how leaked “post-operational reports” ..."
93. (DV) Media Lens: The Real Meaning of Elections in Iraq
www.kitakamek.aghst.com/"23 Feb 2005 ... Does anyone remember the vast oil reserves in Iraq? .... have erred in questioning the war -- the BBC's Andrew Gilligan, Gavyn Davies, Greg Dyke, ... The Sunday Telegraph, January 30, 2005). Andrew Rawnsley wrote in the ..."
94. UK Indymedia - Con Coughlin, the Daily Telegraph & the ongoing ...
dissidentvoice.org/Feb05/MediaLens0210.htm"In 1995, when he was Sunday Telegraph's senior correspondent, ... Andrew Gilligan, who had interviewed the British defence expert Dr David Kelly, ..."
95. The British Invasion | American Journalism Review
www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/12/357870.html"Many Americans searching for a different view of the war in Iraq turned to the British ... The radio segment, by correspondent Andrew Gilligan, charged the .... the conservative Sunday Telegraph headlined, "Why This War Isn't Working. ..."
96. Andrew Gilligan - United Kingdom - Email, Address, Phone number ...
www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=3503"Alastair Campbell fails to control the media – Telegraph Blogs · 'Appalling' errors made in Iraq: papers · Meet London blogger Andrew Gilligan ..."
97. Martin Bright's Blog | Daily News Commentary for the Spectator ...
www.123people.co.uk/s/andrew+gilligan"4 Jul 2009 ... This morning's Telegraph excelled itself in the idiocy stakes. ..... I haven't heard back from Andrew Gilligan, but this latest plug from Yvonne on ... discussion focussing on The Iraq Inquiry and what will it achieve, ..."
98. Who killed David Kelly?
www.spectator.co.uk/martinbright/archive/2009/July/"23 Nov 2007 ... Daily Telegraph. Email this article to a friend ... as the source of Andrew Gilligan's radio report that the 'dodgy dossier' that took ... with a cold anger , how those who launched and justified the Iraq war: the Blairs, ..."
99. Brain Food - Medialens
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7414"(Leader, 'Send more troops,' Sunday Times, October 10, 2004) “Iraq's first .... “Andrew Gilligan got it wrong. But just ask yourself: how many hundreds of ..."
100. UNITY IN DECEIT
www.carlsalter.com/medialens.html"Britain poised to send 1000 more soldiers to Iraq,' Sunday Telegraph, .... Time programme: “Andrew Gilligan got it wrong. But just ask yourself: how ..."
www.coldtype.net/Assets.05/Essays/01.UnityInDeceit.pdf