Mick Jagger attacks Blair on Iraq
Date: 9/13/05 at 10:46AM
Mood: Listening Playing: Get up, Stand up, by Bob Marley
From contactmusic.com:
JAGGER SLAMS BLAIR OVER IRAQ
ROLLING STONES rocker SIR MICK JAGGER has continued the political theme of his band’s current tour – by attacking British Prime Minister TONY BLAIR‘s handling of the US-lead war in Iraq.
The singer confesses backing the initial decision to remove SADDAM HUSSEIN from power – but was “shocked” when it was revealed a dossier detailing Hussein’s possession of weapons of mass destruction was exaggerated by the British Government.
He says, “At the time of the Iraq invasion, “I was ambivalent; getting rid of Saddam Hussein was a gift for humanity and I thought that there was a coherent plan to put Iraq back on its feet.
(But it) shocked me to know that Blair already knew that the weapons of mass destruction were simply an excuse and that there was nothing planned for the day after (the invasion).”
Jagger also fears much for the future of Iraq – still the site of much conflict two years after Hussein’s regime was toppled.
He adds, “If we do not take intelligent steps, a part of Iraq will end up becoming an Islamic republic, a puppet of Tehran.”
Last month Jagger hinted one of the band’s new songs, SWEET NEO CON, is a critique of US President GEORGE W BUSH’s regime.
12/09/2005
As for “removing Saddam Hussein”: why not in the same way as happened with Pinochet; the Greek colonels‘ dictatorship; the Portuguese NATO fascists; Marcos in the Philippines; Mobutu in Congo; Suharto in Indonesia; apartheid in South Africa; Washington’s bloody stooges in Bolivia recently and Venezuela of the 1980s and early 1990s: by the people?
Oh, duh, because people like Cheney and Rumsfeld supported these dictators for ages.
Like they supported Saddam Hussein, already a CIA asset in the 1960s …
So, again, much better than this war with [then] over 100,000 Iraqi dead and counting [now, 27 December 2006: over 600,000]; thousands US dead and counting …
On 24 September [2005] worldwide anti war demonstrations.
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The International Action Center (IAC) condemns the Trial and Death Sentence For Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein; Join us to Protest U.S. Colonial Injustice, War Crimes, and Crimes of Occupation
Emergency Demonstration:
In New York:
Saturday, December 30
2:00 pm
Times Square Recruiting Station
43rd St. & Broadway
call 212.633.6646 for more information
In Detroit, Michigan:
McNamara Federal Building
Saturday, December 30
4:30 PM
called by Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice (MECAWI)
** The International Action Center urges activists to organize local actions in response to the execution of Saddam Hussein and the continuing occupation of Iraq. Check the IAC website (www.iacenter.org) for updates on protests and other activities.
The International Action Center (IAC) hold the U.S. government responsible for the decision of the “Iraqi High Tribunal” to carry out the death sentence against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and considers this execution part of the Bush administration’s plan to once again escalate the war. The timing of the execution was clearly intended to pre-empt news that the death toll of U.S. service people has hit 3,000 while that of Iraqis is in the hundreds of thousands. Such an execution will be another war crime against the Iraqi people.
As we have made clear in prior statements and articles, the IAC does not consider the capture, trial and judgment of the Iraqi president to be legal under international, U.S. or Iraqi law.* This punishment has nothing to do with the alleged crimes of the Iraqi leader nor is it part of an historical judgment of his role. It is the act of a conquering power against a nation that is occupied against the will not only of its 2003 legal government but also against the will of the vast majority of its people.
No authoritative human rights body, including those who were and are opponents and severely hostile to President Saddam Hussein such as the Human Rights Watch, considers his trial fair or the sentence just (see Dec. 27, 2006 statement).
Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, a founder of the IAC, who was part of the defense team for Saddam Hussein, told the media after hearing of the plan to execute that “SaddamHussein and his co-defendants are in the custody of the U.S. military in Iraq. They will be turned over to Iraq only on the order of or with the approval of President Bush. His pending decision will have long term consequences for the peace and stability of Iraq, and for the rule of law as a means to peace.”
The Bush administration is preparing to announce its “new strategy” toward Iraq. This follows the November mid-term elections, which were an anti-war statement by the U.S. electorate. It follows the publication of the Iraq Study Group’s report, which was a recognition that the U.S. occupation of Iraq had collapsed and that disaster was near.
The execution of Saddam Hussein is a clear sign that the Bush administration is looking not to negotiate a way for the U.S. to leave Iraq, but is instead sending a signal that it will continue the war and escalate it despite the impending disaster. This conclusion is all the more obvious, as it accompanies the news out of Iraq that U.S. and puppet Iraqi troops are attacking, arresting and killing members and leaders of the Mahdi Army, led by Moqtada al-Sadr.
We in the IAC say no to the execution of Saddam Hussein and his co-defendants, no to the escalation of the Iraq war that will mean more deaths for Iraqis and for U.S. troops and for an intensified mobilization to stop the occupation of Iraq. We applaud the decision of the MECAWI organization in Michigan to call a protest outside of the McNamara Federal Building at 4:30 PM on the day the lynching of Saddam Hussein is set to be carried out.
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