The Chilcot Report 7-7-2016

7, July 2016                           The Chilcot Report

In a classic example of British bureaucratic overkill, the ‘long awaited’ commission of Enquiry into the run up to the Iraq war, was made public. Four times longer than ‘War and Peace’ – a full 12 volumes containing 2.6 million words taking seven years to complete added nothing new that was not contained in the infamous ‘Downing Street Memo’. As it turns out, The Chilcot Report erroneously attributed the Iraq war on flawed intelligence. Not true. The war was launched on manufactured ‘intelligence’ to justify removal of Saddam Hussein by falsely incriminating him with the 9/11 attacks, and manufacturing WMD’s. Ahmad Chalabi, an Iraqi exile, described contemptuously as “Curveball”, a convicted sex offender and low level engineer, became the sole source for much of the bogus information used to justify the invasion. Drawings of aluminum tubes were presented as Saddam Hussein’s mobile weapons labs. Chalabi convinced the gullible Bush administration that the tubes were centrifuges for enriching uranium  and thus constituted proof, the ever elusive ‘smoking gun,’  that Saddam remained determined to acquire nuclear weapons.

While Blair amasses millions from speaking and consulting fees, Bush paints pretty pictures on his canvas and Cheney enjoys fly fishing, Iraq lies in ruins, and ISIS becomes a multi-headed monster metastasizing to all corners of the globe. It is time Blair traded his Saville Row suits to prison garbs and Bush and his co-conspirators, head to Riker’s maximum security prison to atone for their many sins.