{"id":21093,"date":"2023-03-13T07:41:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T06:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=21093"},"modified":"2023-03-13T08:45:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T07:45:49","slug":"guardian-uk-view-of-mass-murder-based-on-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/?p=21093","title":{"rendered":"Guardian UK view of mass murder based on lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/13\/long-shadow-of-us-invasion-of-iraq-still-looms-over-international-order\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patrick Wintour, Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/13\/long-shadow-of-us-invasion-of-iraq-still-looms-over-international-order\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21094 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bush-declares-victory-in-Iraq.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"3800\" height=\"2280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bush-declares-victory-in-Iraq.webp 3800w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bush-declares-victory-in-Iraq-300x180.webp 300w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bush-declares-victory-in-Iraq-150x90.webp 150w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bush-declares-victory-in-Iraq-768x461.webp 768w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bush-declares-victory-in-Iraq-1536x922.webp 1536w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/bush-declares-victory-in-Iraq-2048x1229.webp 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3800px) 100vw, 3800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At this distance, on the eve of the twentieth anniversary on 20 March, it seems to matter less whether the war was launched on a deceit, a distortion, a wilful misapprehension, or a sincere false premise. It was a blunder that looks worse with every passing anniversary and memoir. Barack Obama drew one lesson from the episode: \u201cDon\u2019t do stupid shit.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2019\/may\/04\/official-secrets-act-gavin-williamson-prosecution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richard Norton-Taylor, Guardian, May 4, 2019<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Early in 2003\u00a0Katharine Gun, a young GCHQ translator, leaked a document, subsequently passed to the\u00a0<em>Observer<\/em>, showing how the US had asked GCHQ to bug the phones of diplomats from the so-called UN <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">\u201cswing states\u201d \u2013<\/span> countries believed to be open to persuasion to back an invasion of Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>She was charged under the <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">1989 Official<\/span> Secrets Act which had replaced the discredited \u201ccatch-all\u201d statute. The case against her was suddenly dropped when the prosecution realised that evidence would emerge at Gun\u2019s trial that even British government lawyers believed the invasion was unlawful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Wintour, Guardian: At this distance, on the eve of the twentieth anniversary on 20 March, it seems to matter less whether the war was launched on a deceit, a distortion, a wilful misapprehension, or a sincere false premise. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/?p=21093\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ru\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}