Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Has Been Freed from Prison 

Afghanistan continued long after Blair. Then there was Syria and Libya and now support for Israel. You cant pick & choose your war crimes.

Jail in baghdad

and they are paying him to be on this show

He also did some bad things as well.

@@sunseeker9581 Blair started it, now be quiet the adults are talking 👍🏻

The standard of discussion on the subject of WMD on this channel is as ever found wanting. The reality is Iraq had and used WMD between the late 1980s up till 1998 including 19,000 litres of botulinum toxin, 8,000 litres of anthrax, 2,000 litres of aflatoxins, which can cause liver fatality, Clostridium perfringens, a bacterium causing gas gangrene; and ricin. They also admitted to conducting research into cholera, salmonella, foot and mouth disease, and camelpox. There were some truly terrible experiments carried out by Iraqi 'scientists' which I won't be commenting on here. To cut a long story short after the UN inspection and recommendations which Iraq acted on between 1995 and 1998 and bombing runs by both the RAF and the USAF there were no WMD left in Iraq something that was officially declared by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. (what follows is of necessity very shortened) Unfortunately, this is where the disagreements and the 'necessary' reasons to go to war intervened. John Bolton the then Under Secretary of State pushed the intelligence services into admitting that Iraq still had the means to deliver and that they had hidden the WMD in Saddam's underground storage and his many palaces. Saddam who didn't want to lose face never corrected this and it suited Bush, doing badly in the polls, to push for a war with Iraq. Britain in the form of Blair was not convinced by the American 'evidence but after receiving reports from the Joint Intelligence Committee that Iraq had the means shortly to launch nuclear and other weapons made the decision to go to war. His reasons were published in Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Assessment of the British Government, also known as the September Dossier and Campbell as press secretary was the guy who had to explain it all to unfortunately a very willing press (especially the Sun). The vote to go to war was supported by both the Conservative Party and large numbers of the Labour Party with the only opposition coming from about a quarter of the Labour MPs and the Liberal Democrats. That it was a wrong decision and that many people on both sides of the Atlantic and in Iraq were to blame wouldn't come out until the war in Iraq was over. In my opinion, politicians, the intelligence services MI6, CIA, and NSA all used the evidence that suited them to justify a war for which there was no legal status. It's not fair to blame Cambell as the mouthpiece though, his job was to sell the September Dossier to a mainly willing press and public (a million people did march across Europe against it). There are a lot more people with a lot more power at the time to blame - he's too easy a target and the real culprits have gotten away with it, as usual.

Time will tell you cowards

Yes, they were inside his mouth this whole time

Weapons of mass delusion

They know the truth, just repeating the lies cos obviously they have chosen a side

Manning & Assange will be viewed as heroes of the 21st century. Unlike those who persecuted them

This is why these people have these jobs - ‘despicable’ is in the job description

he be knocked off in a few months anyway

Very true, people should stop smearing Alister.

Julia Ioffe said that Assange was believed to be a Russian asset who had regular meetings with the Editor of Russia Today.

@@B-jz6fk If he was, then he was hugely effective at it.

But murderng more than 35,000 civilians is apparently ok. We live in a sick world

We all know the what's & are now asking the why's of their two face authority

I strongly disagree .There are no "journalists" in the UK and certainly not on GMB . Assange has made history . He will still be famous and discussed long after Pierce & Co are gone and forgotten . . Campbell and his master will have their place in history too , but neither will be referred to in terms they would have hoped for.

@@leynagh Yes He did something very heroic, but he's not the only Journalist in history who put their life & career on the line. Example: what about all the Journalist in the war in Israel who lost their lives reporting through the free press. At least Assange is alive to be with his family.

Absolutely

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A giant of the 21st century

So do all those backing Israel

The media control everything

They’re all mates aren’t they? That is how cosy journalists and politicians are in this country.

He's part of the regime.

Should be asked about Dr Kelly

Neither is Assange...

That’s what it should be from here. It should be practically impossible to extradite our citizens except in the most extreme circumstances.

Agreed!

I wonder why..... they clearly didn't care about the women

in a way it was Sweden's way of warning him that the US were on their backs hard about this at the time.

@@chambersbenjo Cut the BS. It was corruption plain and simple.

What Justice, he's still alive.

Don't be so simple. Reform want you to join the powers that did this. Wake TF Up!

Traitor not a hero

@@sarawakboy100 He was a hero then and he is still a hero today. His "crime"? Exposing the murderous United States who goes unchecked, and never held accountable for all of its crimes against citizens of the world.

Unpopular, not illegal

@@KevenHutchinson-gt1nn Of course it was illegal. It was based on lies. State sponsored bot!

Fascism and Communism have a lot on common: Authoritarian and willingness to Censor speech.

100%

Between Fulham and Westminster, where it's always been.

Allegedly 10 Million have entered. Will probably be voting in States that do not require ID's. Wiki: No ID required to vote at ballot box: California, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Washington, D.C. .