'Blair to blame for 700,000 rotting corpses'

Lying About The Dead

March 26, 2007,

An extraordinary story appeared once this morning on BBC News 24, and then was buried.

The BBC World Service has obtained a document. It is an official appraisal by British
government scientists across government departments, commissioned by 10 Downing Street, of the study published by the Lancet that estimated 655,000 dead in Iraq.

The appraisal says that the methodology is correct and that the study "follows best practice".
Astonishingly, the official DFID verdict was that 655,000 dead is "If anything, an underestimate".

Yet the Government poured scorn on the Lancet study, despite having commissioned a report from their own scientists that said it was good.

Who can doubt that if the government scientists had rubbished the study, the number ten spin machine would have publicised that like crazy?

Doubtless the Official Secrets Act will be wheeled out to try and sit on the government scientists' report, which the BBC already seems to have reburied, showing its typical craven attitude towards the Blair government.

Personally, I did not know how much credence to give the study published in the Lancet, not being technically equipped to evaluate it.

We can now be confident that the death toll in Iraq was over 600,000 a year ago, and probably over 700,000 now.

There is much talk of Blair's legacy. In fact he has two major legacies. 700,000 rotting corpses, and the culture of lies that sought to suppress the truth about it.

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'Fake' map behind the crisis. Reposted

Source: The Scottish Mail on Sunday.

The link takes you to an article by Craig Murray on the paper's website, while the heading is from a briefer article in the paper version.

The latter continues:

"Tony Blair and his spin doctors colluded to 'fake' a map used to to prove 15 Royal Navy personnel were kidnapped inside Iraqi waters, it was claimed last night.

In allegedly doing so, the Prime Minister put the lives of mother Faye Turney, 25, and her colleagues in greater jeopardy, former British ambassador Craig Murray added.

Murray headed the Foreign Office's maritime section and worked with the Royal Naval Defence and Intelligence Service.

For three years he was responsible for territorial sea claims and negotiating Britain's maritime boundaries.

Foreign Office and Royal Navy staff were apparently horrified when Blair said he was 'utterly certain' the sailors and the Royal Marines were entitled to search vessels in what they privately concede are disputed waters.Murray said...'

It was why the instinct of both the Foreign Office and and MoD was to play this quietly and negotiate our people back. But No 10 spin doctors stepped in, seeing a propaganda opportunity to portray Blair as fighting evil Iranians. It makes compromise on the captives very difficult.'

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