The Blair government was told in January by the Americans that there was no justification for attacking Iraq in the “war on terrorism” and that their main aim was getting rid of Saddam Hussein who stood in the way of the West’s control of Middle Eastern oil wealth.
This partly explains why Blair abandoned presenting to Parliament a famous “dossier” in which “the evidence of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction is simply vast”.
The dossier is no more than a stream of warmed-over assertions and deceptions, supplied by Washington. According to reliable intelligence sources in another Western country, who were privy to the same communications, the Central Intelligence Agency has made clear that there is “no credible evidence” justifying an attack in Iraq.
While Blair has continued to repeat propaganda that Iraq is a threat to the region and to what he calls “civilisation”, the truth has long been an open secret.
— source johnpilger.com | john pilger | 27 Aug 2002