{"id":13693,"date":"2014-04-10T09:30:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T09:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13693"},"modified":"2014-04-10T09:30:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T09:30:48","slug":"anglican-church-supports-war-crimes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13693","title":{"rendered":"Anglican Church supports war crimes… again"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"tonyiraq\"<\/a>Not only is Middle East \u201cPeace Envoy\u201d, Catholic convert and Butcher of Baghdad, Tony Blair gunning for another overthrow and mass destruction in Syria, he has recruited the son of an Archbishop to help him.<\/p>\n

Not any old Archbishop either. Blair\u2019s latest recruit is son of Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England, who heads both the Church of England and the eighty million member Anglican Communion worldwide.<\/p>\n

Blair has given Peter Welby \u201ca key role\u201d in his mega-funded Faith Foundation as \u201ca researcher for a new website \u2026 that will analyse the role of religion in conflicts around the world.\u201d Perhaps enjoining, as George W. Bush put it, a \u201cCrusade\u201d against majority Muslim countries might be an angle worth pursuing.<\/p>\n

Twenty three year old Welby is clearly a faithful Blairite, having already hawkishly warned of President Putin\u2019s \u201cannexation\u201d of the Crimea and that the British Government: \u201cwould be wise to consider reversing some defence cuts \u2026\u201d As a \u201cresearcher\u201d he clearly has a bit to learn, since the Crimean referendum with a 83.1% turn out and near 97% vote to cede to Russia had clearly passed him by.<\/p>\n

He will surely fit well in his new post since the above exhibits a splendidly Blair-type mindset and abandonment scrutiny of facts \u2013 like weapons of mass destruction that can be unleashed \u201cin forty five minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, it is with Syria that he follows Blair\u2019s line to the letter. The \u201cPeace Envoy\u201d embraces wars of aggression as a fish takes to proverbial water \u2013 courageously always traveling with an army of armed protection officers funded by the un-consulted British tax payer.<\/p>\n

Blair\u2019s determination to do for Syria what he did for Iraq is a litany, but here are a random four: Legality ditched again, he declared of President Assad: \u201cHe\u2019s got to go \u2026\u201d (CBS 19th April 2012.)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got to look very carefully to what more we can do to ratchet up the pressure on Assad \u2026 \u201c (BBC \u201cToday\u201d Programme, 17th September 2012.)<\/p>\n

There would be: \u201c \u2018catastrophic consequences\u2019 if the West fails to arm Syrian rebels to defeat the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.\u201d (Daily Telegraph 19th June 2013.) Blair either missed, or is cheering on, the unspeakable atrocities being committed by the (Western paid) foreign insurgents and terrorist groups.<\/p>\n

As this was being written he popped up on the BBC\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d Programme again, loftily attempting to justify the catastrophes of Afghanistan and Iraq in his \u201cI\u2019d do it all again\u201d mode and saying of Syria that the strong opposition of the British people (he didn\u2019t mention the \u201cNo\u201d vote in Parliament) did not \u201cinvalidate\u201d the need for action. As Stop the War put it: \u201cWe should invade Syria whether the British public want it or not.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cynic might ponder on whether, for a man for whom precious human lives lost in orders of magnitude are clearly very cheap indeed, there is an element of pay-back involved.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of November 2001, three weeks after the invasion of Afghanistan, Blair went to visit President Assad: \u201cthe first ever visit to Damascus by a British leader, to enlist support for the bombing campaign. Instead he was subjected to a recital of \u2026 Western failures in the Middle East.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rather than gather support for the bombing, he \u201cwas forced to listen as the Syrian President heaped criticism on the killing of Afghan civilians.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot accept what we see on television, the killing of innocent civilians, hundreds now dying every day\u201d, Assad told Blair, adding that: \u201cWe are always against war\u201d \u2013 and moreover, the West also placed little value on Arab lives.<\/p>\n

Whatever Blair\u2019s motives, Peter Welby is firmly on side. On 31st March he wrote, in an article for the Faith Foundation\u2019s website: \u201cLast week I went to a presentation by Emile Hokayem hosted by the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.\u201d In a \u201cfascinating\u201d talk: \u201cHokayem argued that engagement must be with [jihadist] rebels more favourable to Western interests \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

In a ramble about the complexities of terrorist groups in Iraq and their travels between Iraq and Syria, there is no mention that they were never there before in secular Iraq and Syria and, as mentioned previously, literally came in with Bush and Blair\u2019s tanks, in their illegal invasion, which also left all borders wide open for all comers.<\/p>\n

Hokayem, writes Welby unquestioningly, thought Assad\u2019s victory \u201cimprobable\u201d, but his money is basically on the thugs and: \u201cpeace is unlikely until one group is sufficiently dominant to take the others with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

No mention of countless beheadings, including children, and of the numerous, unspeakable medieval atrocities meted out by these demonic, illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n

In fact, even the Washington Post is of the view that President Assad\u2019s tide is turning and that: \u201cHe is in a stronger position than ever before to quell the rebellion\u201d and indeed, to win a third term in the upcoming elections.<\/p>\n

One man is incandescent about the appointment of Peter Welby and has written to his father in no uncertain terms.<\/p>\n

Nicholas Wood is author of \u201cWar Crime or Just War? The Case Against Blair\u201d, a meticulous legal compilation of just that. Wood, is also Secretary of the Blair War Crimes Foundation. He writes:<\/p>\n

The Archbishop of Canterbury.
\nCanterbury Cathedral<\/p>\n

Dear Sir,<\/p>\n

I enclose my book on Blair, and also a letter to the Prime Minister on his criminality. Though quite why I bother to pay the postage I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

I cannot comprehend that you are someone who is supposed to think every day of moral values but not realise that Blair is a very dangerous psychopath, who, as well as causing untold devastation and misery in Iraq, wishes to extend that violence into Syria and Iran.<\/p>\n

If you read page 570 of his autobiography you might possibly see what I mean.<\/p>\n

Referring to Blair\u2019s advisory position to various heads of State, including Uzbekistan, of which former Ambassador Craig Murray blew the whistle on mind numbing torture, he states:<\/p>\n

Your son will be benefiting, indirectly, of course, from money obtained from despots who boil their victims. This, under the guise of piety.<\/p>\n

I was brought up as a child, a long time ago, to think of Thomas A Becket as a Saint, who resisted the power of a military state, and paid the price with his life. I cannot see you doing that.<\/p>\n

I also was brought up to worship the medieval beauty of Canterbury, it\u2019s stones and it\u2019s stained glass. If stones could weep, they would be weeping now.<\/p>\n

Yours faithfully, Nicholas Wood, MA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Page 570 of Blair\u2019s autobiography to which Wood refers contains a phrase which should surely grab the attention of any psychiatrist:<\/p>\n

I had a vision for Britain. All the way I had believed I could and would persuade the country it was the right choice, the modern way, bigger than Iraq, bigger than the American Alliance, bigger than any one thing; a complete vision of where we should be in the early twenty first century; about how we finally overcome the greatness of our history to discover the full potential of our future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cBigger than Iraq\u201d? The nearing two million deaths since 2003? The five million orphans, million widows. five million displaced? On to Syria, Iran?<\/p>\n

Nicholas Wood says in succinct understatement:<\/p>\n

\n

I suggest that such a vision should be restrained before it is emulated and allowed free rein.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Felicity Arbuthnot is a journalist with special knowledge of Iraq. Author, with Nikki van der Gaag, of Baghdad in the Great City series for World Almanac books, she has also been Senior Researcher for two Award winning documentaries on Iraq<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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