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Bradley Manning Verdict: With friends like Ann Clwyd...

WISE Up Wales | 31.07.2013 13:22 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Terror War | Wales

MP Ann Clwyd commented today on the verdict in the trial of Bradley Manning. She said:

"At this point I would throw out some questions... What about the people who sent Manning to Iraq? Let's hear some things about them..."

 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/bradley-manning-uk-supporters

Good idea!

Prosecute warmongers (like Ann Clwyd) not peacemakers (like Bradley Manning)
Prosecute warmongers (like Ann Clwyd) not peacemakers (like Bradley Manning)


Ann Clwyd was a strong supporter of the illegal 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq. On 18 March 2003, the day before the Iraq debate in the Commons, as questions were being asked about the 'dodgy dossier' and when Tony Blair remained under intense pressure not to lend British support to the US-led war, Clwyd helpfully intervened with a fabricated story in the Times under the headline 'See men shredded, then say you don't back war' about an industrial machine used by Saddam Hussein and his son to mince their opponents into fish food. Pro-war journalists, politicians and others around the world picked up on this wholly uncorroborated story, using it to bolster support for military action in Iraq.

 http://archive.lewrockwell.com/spectator/spec239.html &  http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/feb/04/ann-cwlyd-saddam-shredder-iraq-inquiry

Six years later, Bradley Manning found himself in Baghdad surveying the horrific results of this misadventure on his computer screen. He cared enough about what he saw to risk his life and liberty to share some of it with us.

What Ann Clwyd can be blamed for helping to start, Bradley Manning can be credited with helping to finish. Obama wanted to keep US troops in Iraq after a previously agreed 2011 deadline, but demanded that they be granted legal immunity from prosecution for their actions. Having read the diplomatic cables released by Bradley and published by WikiLeaks, the Iraq government refused to grant such immunity and the troops were withdrawn.

 http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/june-1-thank-bradley-manning-for-helping-end-the-iraq-war

Iraq's fate could have been quite different had we all been spared Ann Clwyd's bloodlust and fiction, in which case Bradley Manning may never have been sent there at all.

Ann Clwyd has also strongly supported the disastrous war in Afghanistan.

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The proggresive colonialists.

31.07.2013 21:04

Which just goes to prove there is no bigger a consumer of the lies of the right, than the suckers of the left.

Only when the two have being crushed together and disposed of as one, will any of us know peace.

anonymous


Letter in the Morning Star today from Felicity Arbuthnot

02.08.2013 09:32

Hague fails to live up to his own standards

Thursday 01 August 2013

Ann Clwyd (Labour MP for Cynon Valley) whose cheerleading for the Iraq invasion and whose alleged friendship with Kurdish warlord Jalal Talabani led Iraqis and Iraq watchers to dub her "Mrs Talabani," is seemingly on the warpath again.

On July 16 she asked Foreign Secretary William Hague "to what extent the UK government is prepared to hold the (Syrian) opposition to account, as well as Assad, for serious human rights abuses, war crimes, crimes against humanity and so on?"

Mr Hague was surprisingly illuminating: "I think this is a very important point, and we must be prepared to do so ... But this country will always have a position that war crimes and crimes against humanity must be rooted out, their perpetrators prosecuted, and it doesn't matter who did it."

Surely then, steps will be taken to deliver Tony Blair and his defence secretary Geoff Hoon, foreign secretary Jack Straw and attorney general Lord Goldsmith to the International Criminal Court for the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq.

In Lord Goldmith's legal advice to Tony Blair of January 30 2003, he states: "I remain of the view that the correct legal interpretation of (UN security council resolution 1441) does not authorise the use of force without a further determination by the security council ..."

Against this paragraph Blair has scrawled: "I just don't understand this." Goldsmith meekly changed his advice.

"Crimes and crimes against humanity" must indeed be "rooted out" and "perpetrators prosecuted."

I await with hope the sound of dawn raids. Hopefully one will be in the Cynon Valley for just one of Ms Clwyd's untruths.

She had seen the shredding machines through which Saddam Hussein fed live human bodies, she told the Commons in a voice-breaking Oscar performance.

They did not, of course, exist.

Felicity Arbuthnot

London E9

 http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/136051

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