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UK paper: British and American leaders likened to Nazi war criminals

FPF-fwd.: Andrew Sparrow - Telegraph - UK | 09.10.2005 08:33 | Analysis | Globalisation | Repression

Good news: Even in a mainstream paper like 'The Telegraph' in England reality begins to dawn! Scott Ritter - former UN Chief weapons inspector: "Both these men could be pulled up as war criminals for engaging in actions that we condemned Germany in 1946 for doing," he said.



By Andrew Sparrow, Political Correspondent - Telegraph - UK*

London - 08/10/2005 - Tony Blair and George Bush were compared to Nazi war criminals yesterday by Scott Ritter, the former UN chief weapons inspector.

"Both these men could be pulled up as war criminals for engaging in actions that we condemned Germany in 1946 for doing," he said. [FPF - Nuremberg - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/byurp]

He said the Prime Minister and the US President were "guilty of the crime of planning and committing aggressive warfare". Speaking in London at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Mr Ritter said the two leaders would have been in a much stronger position if they had got a UN resolution explicitly authorising the invasion.

[FPF: 'The war in Iraq is illegal' - BBC video & text-interview of the United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v]

He also said Britain gained very little from the "special relationship". "Britain gets nothing, other than to say they are America's closest ally in Europe," he said.

Mr Ritter, who was a UN weapons inspector in Iraq between 1991 and 1998, said intelligence services had been correct to say that Iraq's missile programme had been destroyed soon after the first Gulf conflict of 1991.

He recalled how he delivered a report in 1992 stating that the programme had been eliminated. It was met with "stony silence" and he was told that Iraq still possessed 200 missiles.

The inspectors returned to track down the weapons, which never materialised.

[enditem] - Telegraph/UK - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/9tor5

'Google News' had this today, the morning of October 9th - 2005 - 10.18 hrs - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/aahur

Fwd. - IN FULL AGREEMENT WITH UN CHIEF INSPECTOR SCOTT RITTER - by:

FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
Editor : Henk Ruyssenaars
 http://tinyurl.com/66dmo
The Netherlands
 FPF@Chello.nl

MAIN$TREAM MEDIA MAKE MORONS!

* *The Dutch author this far has worked abroad for international media for more than 4 decades, as a fully independent foreign correspondent, of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle East. Seeing worldwide that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism.

* The Nuremberg principles: "Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefor and liable to punishment." - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/byurp

* 'The war in Iraq is illegal' - BBC: video & text-interview of the United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v

* The leaked 'Downing Street Memos' expose the criminal lies by war criminals like Bush, Blair, Berlusconi(It.) Balkenende(NL) - their collaborating media and other malignant ilk - Url.: http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/

* American car magnate Henry Ford investigated 85 years ago the global problem - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/2xz35

* Never trust the BBC - (Broadcasting Blair's Crap) - nor all their war propaganda - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/6td3d

* Are their Corporate News Media Incompetent, Criminally Negligent or Complicit? - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/cqpfe

* Brainwashed? - Take the free 'Gullibility Factor' test to find out if you're really a mind slave, or not - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/cbgnc

* Colin Powell: 'It is not anti-Semitic to criticize the policies of the state of Israel' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/22p6c - Who creates our money? - And what is 'Press Freedom' about? - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/atxyk - Wayne Madsen: ''What has Israel to do with 9/11?'' - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/bj754 - 'American neocons' - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/b5vsb

* A good start: Former PM Wim Kok, and other Dutch Govt's war criminals in Court - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/662pp

* Help all the troops of whatever nationality to come back from abroad! We need them badly at home in many countries - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE PAID FOR BY TAXES - to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.:  http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

* The World Can't Wait! - Drive out the neocons and their 'Bush Regime' - Mobilize for November 2, 2005! - Url.:  http://www.worldcantwait.org/

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FPF-fwd.: Andrew Sparrow - Telegraph - UK
- e-mail: fpf@chello.nl
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Comments

Display the following 5 comments

  1. Good but..... — Boab
  2. When I see sarcasm, I smell troll — twilight
  3. Ahem — Boab
  4. You're One To Talk — Fascism Is Alive And Well
  5. Reality begins to dawn? — MI5 Provocateur Goonite (on secondment to New Labour)
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