Quote: "In a program called Iraq: The Failure of War, to be screened on British television on Friday, General Rose tells former BBC correspondent Martin Bell that he would certainly have resigned, had he been on active service at the time of the invasion. That, he says, might have caused the politicians to "think twiceabout what they were doing".

General wants Blair impeached over Iraq

By Richard Norton-Taylor, London

January 11, 2006 - A RETIRED British general has called for impeachment proceedings against Tony Blair, accusing the British Prime Minister of misleading Parliament and the public over the invasion of Iraq.

General Sir Michael Rose, commander of United Nations forces in Bosnia in 1994, wrote: "The impeachment of Mr Blair is now something I believe must happen if we are to rekindle interest in the democratic process in this country once again."

Britain was led into war on false pretences, he said. "It was a war that was to unleash untold suffering on the Iraqi people and cause grave damage to the West's prospects in the wider war against global terror."

His call came as a suicide attack, claimed by al-Qaeda, killed 28 people inside Iraq's Interior Ministry, former Iraq governor Paul Bremer criticised US troop levels and it emerged that American journalist Jill Carroll had been kidnapped.

[FPF: The 'Butcher of Baghdad' - neocon Paul Bremer - told the Netherlands sheeple via their malignant managers yesterday 'that if they don't sent 1500 more pieces of canonfodder to the killing fields of Afghanistan, the US economically would boycot them...'

Blackmail optima forma by those war criminals. This US 'Gauleiter' Bremer in Baghdad - and upon hastily leaving - signed the 'Revised Order 17': granting immunity from prosecution to all foreign troops and contractors in Iraq. - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/6jyku]

The Interior Ministry's Baghdad compound had been on high alert for a National Police Day parade attended by senior Government ministers and US ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad.

But in a security lapse described by a police official as a "disaster", suicide bombers, dressed as police and with passes giving them high-level security clearance, walked through checkpoints.

When guards became suspicious, judging that one man appeared "too fat", they opened fire, shooting him in the back and detonating his bulky explosive vest. The second bomber, who was mingling with police and civilians, detonated his explosives on hearing the blast, causing most of the casualties.

In interviews to publicise his book 'My Year in Iraq', Mr Bremer insists that he raised the lack of troop numbers and security with Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and even President George Bush to no avail.

Mr Bremer claims that when he told Vice-President Dick Cheney that he could not discern America's strategy in Iraq, he responded: "Well, I have similar concerns."

The former governor also criticised Mr Rumsfeld for "pumping up" the number of new Iraqi security forces to "justify a drawdown of our forces".

While Mr Bremer supported the decision to go to war, General Rose said most British people had consistently opposed it.

It should not be surprising that "so many of the voters of this country have turned their backs on a democratic system which they feel has so little credibility and is so unresponsive".

The general said MPs should investigate just how far Mr Blair went to evaluate the quality of the intelligence about Iraq's weapons program.

In a program called Iraq: The Failure of War, to be screened on British television on Friday, General Rose tells former BBC correspondent Martin Bell that he would certainly have resigned, had he been on active service at the time of the invasion. That, he says, might have caused the politicians to "think twice about what they were doing".

General Sir Rupert Smith, who took over from General Rose as UN-commander in Bosnia, says of Iraq in the program: "We often actually reinforce our opponent's ability to achieve his objective because his strategy is always to get us to overreact."

Mr Blair's official spokesman said yesterday: "General Rose is entitled to his view. Equally, the (British) Government is entitled to point out that we have had free democratic elections in Iraq for the first time in well over a generation."

[FPF: according to the Geneva - and some other also by the UK ratified Conventions - holding elections or changing the constitution in an occupied country is ILLEGAL - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/dven2]

The kidnapping of Ms Carroll, 28, who reports on Iraq for The Christian Science Monitor, took place on Saturday near the office of Sunni leader Adnan al-Dulaimi, whom Carroll had intended to interview.

One kidnapper pulled the driver from her car, jumped in, and drove away with several other kidnappers huddled around Carroll and her interpreter, Allan Enwiyah, 32, who was later found dead in the same neighbourhood, shot twice in the head.

Mr Dulaimi denied later that there had been an appointment.

In a program called 'Iraq: The Failure of War', to be screened on British television on Friday, General Rose tells former BBC correspondent Martin Bell that he would certainly have resigned, had he been on active service at the time of the invasion.

That, he says, might have caused the politicians to "think twice about what they were doing".

General Sir Rupert Smith, who took over from General Rose as UN commander in Bosnia, says of Iraq in the program: "We often actually reinforce our opponent's ability to achieve his objective because his strategy is always to get us to overreact."

.GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, AGENCIES - The Age - Story at Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/atzwq

FPF / Related:

* FPF / Related: MSNBC - Live Vote: Do you believe that like Tony Blair, the UK's #1 Crime & Prime Minister - President Bush's actions justify impeachment? - Url.:  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904/

* "People do not forget. They do not forget the death of their fellows, they do not forget torture and mutilation, they do not forget injustice, they do not forget oppression, they do not forget the terrorism of mighty powers. They not only don't forget: they also strike back." - 2005 Nobel Literature Prize winner Harold Pinter - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/9cyeq

* The Nuremberg principles: "Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefor and liable to punishment." - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/byurp

* 'The war in Iraq is illegal' - BBC: video & text-interview of the United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v
* Reference guide to the Geneva Conventions - Url.:  http://www.genevaconventions.org

* The leaked 'Downing Street Memos' expose the criminal lies by war criminals like Bush, Blair, Berlusconi (It.) Balkenende (NL) - their collaborating media and other malignant ilk - Url.:   http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/

* The infamous US 'Lie Factory' -  Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/8ncal

* Who's financing? - The 'Federal Reserve' and it's usurers is the absolute biggest crime against all humanity ever. - Url.:  http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm

* NWO letter: ''we can cancel your credit or freeze your accounts'' - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/cjo7l

* Help all the troops - of whatever nationality - to come back from abroad! - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE WERE FORCED TO PAY FOR BY TAXES - [ http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm ] - We need them badly at home in many countries to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.:  http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

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