MEET ANN CLWYD, FUNDED BY UNCLE SAM
If you think the UK is somehow different from other US infiltrated countries, consider the case of the Blairite MP Ann Clywd who runs Indict, described as a human rights organisation. In fact Indict was only ever concerned with indicting America's new enemies, Saddam Hussein and the Ba'ath Party in Iraq. It has now been wound up, acording to Clwyd's office because its job is over.
Clwyd was once a hero of the left who boosted her career with opposition to Cruise missiles in the 1980s. Now she is a leading warmonger, credited with swinging twenty Labour MPs into supporting the war with her denunciations of Saddam Hussein (and indirectly helping to pollute Iraq with tonnes of depleted uranium dust).
Recently The Observer ran a glowing interview with Clwyd, the sort of puff normally reserved for celebrities in reviews sections. Clwyd was so brave that she was even prepared to be a favorite of Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz in the cause of human rights. (You might wonder why she was not calling for their indictment as the people who aided and abetted Saddam's worst crime: the launching of the 1982 war of aggression against Iran)
What The Observer failed to mention is that Clwyd's organisation is FUNDED by the US State Department. The grants, under the Iraq Liberation Act, started within six months of the founding of Indict. Clwyd's key allegation against Saddam Hussein, that he was putting people live through mincing machines, now seems about as likely as the 1991 lies about the Kuwaiti babies, or for that matter the 1914 lies about the Germans. If you think this is so grotesque it has to be true, think again.
On the day of the Iraq House of Commons vote Clwyd's claim ran in Murdoch's Times under the headline ‘See men shredded, then say you don’t back war’. Challenged by The Spectator magazine, Clwyd now describes these statements as reports. It was not her job to verify them, she says, and nobody did. The researcher who came up with them in `Northern Iraq` (aka Kurdistan, not occupied by Hussein's forces for over ten years) is `unavailable`.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spectator/spec239.htmlMeanwhile children are certainly shredded by Clwyd's cluster bombs, but that's different, it's an accident. Clwyd's office does not know what proportion of Indict's income came from the State Department or whether she has anything to say about the routine hooding of Iraqi suspects by British troops, a practice borrowed from Israel and generally considered to amount to torture. Clwyd is the Blair-appointed chair of the Commons Human Rights Committee but as the Blair-appointed special envoy to Iraq she is in Iraq and not available for comment. Any comment we receive from Clwyd will be reported in the next newsletter.
It seems that the further away the human rights villain, the braver Clwyd and The Observer become
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