Reply #20: Zeese: "The invasion of Iraq was illegal under international law ...

[understandinglife]

... so they tried to create legal justification through manipulation of the United Nations in order to trap Saddam into violating UN resolutions. This also provided the side benefit of making it look like they were seeking a peaceful resolution while at the same time putting in place the machinery for a massive US/UK invasion."

The above quote is derived from the following article, published by The Online Journal, entitled:

How much proof needed before the truth comes out?
Now seven leaked British documents raise Iraq war questions

By Kevin Zeese
Online Journal Contributing Writer

(.pdf download of the article available here):
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/061705Zeese/06-17-05_Zeese.pdf

June 17, 2005—The Downing Street Memo—minutes of a meeting with Prime Minister Tony Blair and his advisors that said the US was "fixing" the intelligence to support the Iraq War—was not enough to get the mainstream US media or members of Congress to take the issue seriously. Now there is Downing II, III, IV, V, VI and VII!

As the evidence mounts (http://democracyrising.us/content/view/245/164/), the failure of the media to seriously investigate the issues is baffling. Why aren't they interviewing current and former US military intelligence officials about these reports from the highest levels of British government? Isn't the media supposed to investigate and get the truth for their readers and viewers?

And, how about Congress—shouldn't they be subpoenaing witnesses to testify under oath about pre-war intelligence gathering, the influence Bush administration had on manipulating or misstating intelligence findings and whether intelligence was gathered to report the truth or designed to support a pre-ordained war? The chairman of Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Pat Roberts, has promised to investigate whether intelligence was manipulated by the administration—but that promise remains unfulfilled and last week Knight-Ridder reporter Dick Polman was told it was "still on the back burner." Maybe it is time to make good on that promise.

Mr Zeese continues with a summary of each document)
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/061705Zeese/061705zeese.html

Peace.


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