The Iraq Inquiry - Chilcott's Circus Clowns Come to Town

[Jan Klimkowski]

Quotes are from the Independent article linked by Carsten.

This bears further deconstruction.

The documents were not offered as evidence in the ongoing Chilcot Inquiry into the UK's involvement in the Iraq war.

Indeed. Will Chilcot now demand that they are entered as evidence?

I'm not holding my breath.

In March 2003, just before Britain went to war, Shell denounced reports that it had held talks with Downing Street about Iraqi oil as "highly inaccurate". BP denied that it had any "strategic interest" in Iraq, while Tony Blair described "the oil conspiracy theory" as "the most absurd".

I wrote about this extensively at the time.

The nub of it is that by declaring war for oil as a "conspiracy theory", PM Blair shut down meaningful debate about one of the primary motivations for the Iraq invasion.

From then on, every time an MSM journalist raised oil as a rationale for the invasion , the hack would preface his words, or - to use the journalistic phrase, weasel them - by saying the conspiracy theorists claim this is a war for oil, Mr Minister....., and thus undermine the point and make the politician's inevitable rebuttal easy. Hack and politician would then chuckle at the ludicrousness of such an idea.

Phrases such as "conspiracy theory" or "truther" are psyop creations, emanating from intelligence shrinks and propagandists.

The fundamental purpose of such phrases is to narrow the boundaries of "reasonable" debate and to ridicule anyone whose opinion is outsde the spooks' carefully constructed safe, and fictional, Zone.