Ambassador's damning verdict:

Meyer says PM failed to exert any leverage on Bush and was seduced by US power.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10898.htm



Memoirs shine new light on war:

Tony Blair has faced any number of claims about what he did and did not do when he and President Bush were preparing to go to war on Iraq. The difference with Sir Christopher Meyer's recollections is that he was actually there most of the time.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10897.htm

US military intelligence warned the Bush administration as early as February 2002 that its key source on Al-Qaeda's relationship with Iraq had provided "intentionally misleading" data, according to a declassified report.

http://tinyurl.com/da9kl


From Information Clearing House

Iraqi politicians have condemned the latest US offensive on villages and towns close to the Syrian border, calling it a killing operation.

http://tinyurl.com/b8aok


From Information Clearing House

Veteran admits: Bodies melted away before us.

By RAI

The Americans are responsible for a massacre using unconventional weapons, the identical charge for which Saddam Hussein stands accused. An investigation by RAI News 24, the all-news Italian satellite television channel, has pulled the veil from one of the most carefully concealed mysteries from the front in the entire US military campaign in Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10901.htm

NOTE TO READERS:
I am working on the video RAI report detailed in the article above. I should have it online ( http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10907.htm ) by 2pm PST

Bob Herbert writes that the coalition of the clueless that launched the tragically misguided war in Iraq is in complete disarray.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110705N.shtml

http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/27792


From Information Clearing House

TONY BLAIR is set to face an unprecedented parliamentary inquiry into his conduct in the run-up to the Iraq war.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1859669,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Britain insists it did not rely on forgeries for its case against Iraq. But its own 'evidence' came from the same shady Italian intelligence broker.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article325155.ece


From Information Clearing House