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Not having a written constitution allowed Blair and his advisers to go to war without reference to parliament or the public. George Monbiot comments on a rather confusing unbalanced discussion programme broadcasted on the BBC a Friday before the New Year. Programme discussed with Lord Guthrie, formerly chief of the defense staff, and Sir Kevin Tebbit, until recently the senior civil servant at the Ministry of Defense, if the parliament decides whether Britain should or not go for war. The discussion reveals some terrifying facts about the privileges of unfathomable power which lead Britain to become a party to a crime that killed million of people and changed the history of the world. Guthrie argued that parliamentary approval would mean intelligence had to be shared with MPs; that the other side could not be taken by surprise which means that the enemies will know that an attack has been planned. Tebbit argued that the prime minister can not deploy forces until he or she has a command over majority of the parliament. This way the executive is already accountable to parliament. Once the prime minister has his majority, in other words, MPs become redundant.[1] Wagging a war of aggression is considered to be a supreme international crime, according to International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. It is actually at the top of the list of war crimes but mostly th e nations or organisation supporting the point of view are scoffed off where in reality these are the few who stand between us and the greatest crimes in history. Cont… 

[1] George Monbiot, How Britain became party to a crime, The Guardian.

I finally saw Greg Maguire’s broadway play, Wicked Tickets. A prequel to Oz, it gives the perspective of the Elphaba ”wicked” witch of the west. Now that’s interesting…because it reminds one of so many hunted witches in the east and the south. How many really are demons and how many get demonized to feed political agendae(or corporate coffers)?  

At least 655000 Iraqis have died, directly as a result of the Iraq war, concludes Lancet. A team from Johns Hopkins compared the death rate before the invasion to the to the period between March ‘03 and June ‘06. The study was much more robust, than a previous such study because of larger sample size. A horrific 1 in 40 Iraqis have died as a result of George Bush’s botched mid east oil grab!

According to New York Times, the evidence for the “alleged massacre” has been destroyed. Specifically, pages off the squad logbook have been removed. A video taken by a drone was given to investigators after the second-highest ranking officer in Iraq became involved in the inquiry. The whole system is gamed against justice every getting meted out! 

While the media attention has shifted to Lebanon, the tragedy in Iraq continues unabated. Those assuming the mantle of “patriotism” are hell bent on drowning out the voice of sanity.

 Its all about Che Guevara