Iraq Follow

Mass graves claim overstated TONY BLAIR claimed that 400,000 bodies had been found in mass graves in Iraq.

I HAD some sleepless nights in the build-up to the Butler report. One thing about the whole Iraq story was nagging at me—would Butler get to the bottom of it?

BETWEEN THE lines of the Butler report lies a damning indictment of the Blair government—proof positive that parliament and the people were lied to about Iraq’s "weapons of mass destruction".

"DON’T BLAME us, blame the spies", say the warmongers Bush and Blair.

THE ROAD to Baghdad airport used to be lined with date palm trees stretching for miles. "The date palm is a national symbol of Iraq," Haifa Zangana explains. "It’s something that takes farmers 20 to 30 years to grow."

JOHN NEGROPONTE’S takeover in Iraq indicates a new stage in the American war and occupation—death squad democracy.

Nick Berg, an American contract worker, was kidnapped and beheaded in Iraq earlier this year. MICHAEL BERG, his father, came to Britain last week to attend demonstrations against the fake handover of power in Iraq. He spoke at a press conference organised by the Stop the War Coalition.

LONDON: Hundreds of people protested in Parliament Square on Wednesday of last week over the fake handover in Iraq.

IRAQ IS "sovereign and free", declared the BBC’s Matt Frei on 28 July. The staged "handover" was dubbed an "enormously significant day for Iraq".

AYAD ALLAWI, the unelected interim prime minister of Iraq, has come out in support of the latest air strike on Fallujah, which killed ten Iraqis.

THE STAGING of the fake handover of power in Iraq betrayed its emptiness.

These allegations appeared during the war on Iraq, when the right wing press and some supposed "left" commentators tried to witch-hunt George Galloway.