RAF bombing raids tried to provoke Saddam into War in 2002!

THE RAF and US aircraft doubled the rate at which they were dropping bombs on Iraq in 2002 in an attempt to provoke Saddam Hussein into giving the allies an excuse for war, new evidence has shown.

The attacks were intensified from May, six months before the United Nations resolution that Tony Blair and Lord Goldsmith, the attorney-general, argued gave the coalition the legal basis for war. By the end of August the raids had become a full air offensive.

The details follow the leak to The Sunday Times of minutes of a key meeting in July 2002 at which Blair and his war cabinet discussed how to make “regime change” in Iraq legal.

Geoff Hoon, then defence secretary, told the meeting that “the US had already begun ‘spikes of activity’ to put pressure on the regime”.

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None of this will be mentioned in American Main Stream Press of course since it is controlled by the Government.

More and more evidence is coming out about the fraud committed to have America to goto war with Iraq, first the British Memo about "fixing the policy" around the war and now this.



[edit on 29-5-2005 by ProphetOfYahweh]

They had already stepped up bombings in Iraq right after Bush took office.
Here's a defenselink article from February of 2001:

defenselink.mil

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23, 2001 -- President Bush said Feb. 22 that recent coalition air attacks against Iraq sent a strong message to Saddam Hussein that “this administration will remain engaged” in Southwest Asia.

Bush, speaking at his first White House press conference, also said the Feb. 16 raid was designed to get Saddam Hussein’s attention and to degrade his capacity to harm coalition pilots patrolling the no-fly zones.

Bush said Secretary of State Army Gen. (Ret.) Colin Powell would address the issue of Iraq during an upcoming Middle East trip. “The Secretary of State is going to listen to our allies as to how to best effect a policy, the primary goal of which will be to say to Saddam Hussein, we won’t tolerate you developing weapons of mass destruction, and we expect you to leave your neighbors alone,” Bush said.

EDIT: Here's a BBC article, also from February 2001:
Mid East reacts to Iraq bombing

[edit on 29-5-2005 by AceOfBase]

Originally posted by ProphetOfYahweh
None of this will be mentioned in American Main Stream Press of course since it is controlled by the Government.
[edit on 29-5-2005 by ProphetOfYahweh]

Actualy, that statement is false.

The media is owned not by the goverment, but by the same groups of people that own the goverment.

Big difference, but equaly bad.