Former MI5 boss confirms what we all knew
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14702644
Pre-war Iraq 'not threat to UK', former MI5 boss says
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Originally Posted by BBC
Iraq posed no threat to the UK when then prime minister Tony Blair took Britain to war in 2003, former MI5 boss Baroness Manningham-Buller has said.
In a Radio Times interview, Baroness Manningham-Buller said the service advised war was likely to increase the domestic threat and was a "distraction" from the pursuit of al-Qaeda. But she said it was "for others to decide" whether the war was a mistake. She also said she "assumed" there would be another terrorist attack on Britain. Baroness Manningham-Buller, who was director-general of MI5 from October 2002 until her retirement in April 2007, will deliver the 2011 BBC Reith Lectures later this week. She told the Radio Times: "Iraq did not present a threat to the UK.
"The service advised that it was likely to increase the domestic threat and that it was a distraction from the pursuit of al-Qaeda. I understood the need to focus on Afghanistan. Iraq was a distraction." But she added: "Intelligence isn't complete without the full picture and the full picture is all about doubt."
I hope I live to see the day a real opposition forms so that Antony Blair, the-then cabinet and the 'opposition' are investigated and (most likely) charged with acts of fraud against the people of this country and against foreign sovereign states. Iraq had no airforce, no navy and an ineffective army which could barely retain control in Iraq itself let alone come marching up the beaches of Dover. Iraq had no WMD as we all knew, had never made any threats to attack or harm the United Kingdom and even if Iraq were to acquire or develop WMD, as a sovereign state they have every right to do so.
I feel its right to re-jog memories of this liberal interventionalist war by the warmongers as they remain in office in the latest avdenture in Libya. The war drum continues to beat over Iran (another country which cannot attack the United Kingdom nor has ever made any attempt to do so in her entire history, not even her close neighbours) which no doubt we'll be kicked into a conflict there concering Iran acquiring nuclear weapons of which Israel has over 200 but denies they exist. But shh, thats ok. Ask yourself this, why are we so afraid of Iran to the point where we refuse to talk with them which *may* develop one nuclear bomb while we faced the Soviet Union (a genuine threat) a few decades ago which had thousands pointing at us and yet we still talked.
To think this awful man is 'Middle East Peace Envoy', it's almost as ridiculous as someone suggesting Gordon-increase-public-spending-by-50%-Brown should be head of the IMF! oh wait..
Thoughts? are you duped still by foreign adventures by our government? should Blair and Co face charges?
Edited by Recursion (Forum Moderator): Edited the title to MI5 instead of M15 for you ;)