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أربعة رجال وإمرأة : كيف تصنع تحقيقا مهزلة ؟ |
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التحقيقات التي تجريها الهيئة البريطانية الخاصة برئاسة جون تشيلكوت
حول الحرب ضد العراق، ليست الأولى، فقد سبقتها تحقيقات كارتونية سابقة
انتهت الى نتائج لم ترض أحدا حول الأسس القانونية للحرب.
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To: Iraq Inquiry Sir John Chilcot (Chairman), Sir Lawrence Freedman, Sir Martin Gilbert, Sir Roderic Lyne and Baroness Usha Prashar. Dear Sir/Madam, It was quite astonishing to see four men and a woman of great experience such as yourselves, entirely unable to ask the right questions. You are conducting an inquiry of great importance not only because Britain has suffered unnecessary casualties but because the war on Iraq has paved the way for unprecedented war crimes and yet you have allowed a war criminal to look like a ‘hero’. He is only a ‘hero’ because of your failure. When you called former Prime Minister Mr. Tony Blair to your inquiry you heard him repeating the thought that had Iraqi former president Saddam Husain complied with UN resolutions to surrender his WMD then the war would not have happened. Yet not one of you asked precisely what he should have complied with? Should he have given up WMD that he was found not to have? If that were the case then the pressing question would be how could anyone manage to remove something that isn’t there? Iraq has let UN inspectors enter its territory without conditions. They have searched everywhere, including the wardrobe of the presidential palace, and found nothing. It’s quite clear that their intentions were not to look for WMD’s that they were well aware did not exist but to insult a sovereign country. Mr. G.W. Bush and Mr. Blair wanted the war no matter what, irrelevant of compliance with UN resolutions. That was the story and this where your intelligence falls short. Could that intelligence stretch beyond that tall tale? I sincerely doubt it. You allowed a war criminal and a professional liar to look like a hero not because he is but because you allowed him to lecture you about his judgment. Do we need an inquiry simply to hear repeated to us, what we already know? Do we need to spend tax payer’s money for such rubbish? The question has never been whether his judgment was right or wrong but whether he had planned an unlawful war, pushed and designed events to make it possible and ignored anything that says otherwise. The UN inspectors asked for more time, they never claimed that there was an imminent threat but Mr. Bush and Mr. Blair reiterated the over-used game of a fear from the ‘unknown.’ And on that basis alone they launch the war because they wanted it. You allowed a professional killer to escape genuine criticism not only because you lacked the intelligence to ask the right questions but because you didn’t want to do so. Why didn’t Mr. Blair and Mr. Bush allow UN inspectors to finish their work? With all the information at your disposal about Iraqi military capabilities, why would you decide to launch the war at precisely that time and not a month or two later? After 12 years of searching for WMD’s, destroying missiles and enforcing sanctions that included nearly everything, what kind of ‘imminent threat’ could Blair have been talking about? What kind of ‘self defence’ could he have been taking against a country that was clearly defenceless? Please use your intelligence to answer if that is at all possible. The argument of ‘self defence’ against a country that has been left defenceless is the most cowardly argument could be put forth. It serves as a scapegoat for an unimpressive lawyer and yet even ‘self defence’ should be reasonable and proportionate should it not? If that is the case, then where was that sense of reason and proportion? Iraq has surrendered thousands of documents to prove that there are no WMD’s left. That was the truth. Everything else was false. You could have asked why the intelligence bodies here and in the USA failed to see the truth but you didn’t. Although we know Mr. Blair wanted Iraq to ‘comply.’ Now as you have let this question slip away like many others, please tell me: comply with what? Do what? Give up what? Though it is now abundantly clear that such thoughts are beyond you one might hope that someone might be inspired to go to the UN to force you to comply and ask the right questions. Then your situation would be the same: Iraq had no WMD’s thus could not comply and you lack the intellectual capacity to comply. One question your government can’t escape from is the following: after finding no WMD’s and after it was clear that the war was unlawful or at least an unfortunate event then why should it allow the killing of former officials to continue? Rudyard Kipling once said, “The first victim of war is truth” and it is the first victim of your inquiry. Do you merely intend to remind us of those words? Over one million of Iraqi victims would not find it to be any more than salt on their wounds. Your response is already obvious so please do not feel yourselves obliged to reply at all. We have no need for it. You have wasted peoples time and money for nothing so please wrap up your rubbish and go. It remains quite astonishing. Ali Al-Saraf (Writer & journalist) 9 Tedder Terrace Hastings, East Sussex TN35 4JP |
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| الى "تحقيق العراق" السير جون شيلكوت (الرئيس)، السير لورانس فريدمان، السير مارتن غلبرت، السير رودريك لين، والبارونة أوشا راشار.
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