![]() ![]() The Murdoch press was particularly gung-ho, but so too were most of the media – only the Mirror engaged in anti-war campaigning. He dragooned his own MPs to vote for war and, despite a huge 139-strong rebellion, many of them did, alongside the Tories. Such was the threat of these WMDs that invasion by the biggest imperialist armies in the world was justified.īlair was never a reluctant ally of Bush but a full-blooded supporter of this war. The aim of the governments, regime change, was illegal under international law, so they cooked up a series of spurious reports and dossiers which alleged that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein was in possession of Weapons of Mass Destruction which could supposedly hit British interests in 45 minutes. Labour prime minister Tony Blair was fully behind every move made by Bush and determined to take Britain into the war. Its cheerleaders were the crazed right-wing intellectuals of the Project for a New American Century. ![]() This was a war of choice by the US and UK governments in particular, planned by George W Bush and his closest advisers in the days following the 9/11 attacks on the US (even though there was no evidence of Iraqi involvement in them). What’s remarkable is how little of the commentary acknowledges the mass informed opposition that existed long before it started, and how much of it distorts or doesn’t understand either the run up to the war or its bloody consequences. The war tends to be characterised as a misadventure or mistake, because those responsible were misled or were unable to know the truth. Twenty years on from the war in Iraq, there is plenty of media coverage and political comment. Lindsey German on imperialist blowback and today’s strikes ![]()
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