No War in Iraq Options - Straw

Guardian: Reports that former Labour Foreign Secretary Jack Straw under PM Tony Blair advice the then PM to find other ways to deal with Iraq that didn’t include War. The advice was a week before the War started, bit late folks, also if Mr Straw had any doubts, War is different from most politics he should have resigned.

The UK Cabinet and the Iraq War

Telegraph: Reports that the former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has told the Iraq Inquiry that he told the UK Cabinet that the Iraq War would be legal without a new UN resolution even after being told by the Attorney General Lord Goldsmith that the reverse was true. One would really like to see the former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith given evidence under Oath, all roads it seems lead to what the Attorney General thought and when he didn’t think that, as at the last minute he changed his mind. The Iraq War cant be illegal as the UK lost a 179 of its Armed Forces Personnel in the War and its aftermath, it was iffy, it is up there with Suez, if no UK Soldier had died then this blog would quite happy see Mr Blair at the International Court, but our heroic soldiers did die, thus let those deaths be on the mind of Tony Blair for years to come, when you think of Blair think Iraq.

The US and the Violence in Egypt - Obama White House

The Obama White House has released a very short statement on the violence in Egypt, the statement has the following comment, “ The United States deplores and condemns the violence that is taking place in Egypt, and we are deeply concerned about attacks on the media and peaceful demonstrators. We repeat our strong call for restraint. ”. At the of the day the US gives the Army of Egypt over a billion dollars a year, they could always cut that grant, but then they would have no influence in Cairo, so what will the Army of Egypt do, well if they are this slow on internal matters lets hope they never go to war, Egypt would have been invaded so far. The Army of Egypt has to jump one way or another, support the protesters, or support President Mubarak. The Army is not looking good at the moment.