Hoe signaleer je komende oorlog?

[w.t. jouwstra]

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Cees,

Je moet dan ok geen Palmolive gebruiken maar Williams, creme menthole,
helaas alleen in Frankrijk verkrijgbaar (voor bijna niets), bijvoorbeeld in
de Monoprix tegenover de mannenafdeling van Au Printemps.

Groet,

Tjerk

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Van: owner-d66 at nic.surfnet.nl [mailto:owner-d66 at nic.surfnet.nl] Namens Cees
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Verzonden: dinsdag 19 januari 2010 13:57
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Onderwerp: Hoe signaleer je komende oorlog?

REPLY TO: D66 at nic.surfnet.nl

Kennelijk dezelfde (late) deuntjes in UK.
Overigens een 'probaat' middel om de voorbereidingen te signaleren:
de voorraad Palmolive scheercreme in de winkelschappen.

In 2003 heb ik me afgevraagd waarom die wekenlang niet te krijgen was en
heb zelf 'inferieure' zeep moeten gebruiken.

Nu houd ik Obama in de gaten door elke keer de voorraad in de winkel te
controleren ;)

Groet / Cees

 From Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article6993409.ece
January 19, 2010
Secret letter reveals Lord Goldsmith's fury over legal approval for war
David Brown

The Attorney-General sent a furious letter to the Defence Secretary a
year before the invasion of Iraq warning that he saw "considerable
difficulties" in giving legal approval for war, it emerged this morning.

Lord Goldsmith complained to Geoff Hoon that he had put in a "difficult
position" by the Defence Secretary's public claim that Britain would be
entitled to use force without a specific United Nations resolution.

In a previously secret letter released by the Iraq Inquiry this morning,
Lord Goldsmith said that he had given no opinion on the legality of
military action.

"I think you should know that I see considerable difficulties in being
satisfied that military action would be justified on the basis of
self-defence," he wrote.

"In particular I am not aware of the existence of material indicating
the existence of an imminent threat from Iraq of the sort which would
justify military action without support of a [UN]Security Council
Chapter VII authorisation."

Lord Goldsmith criticised Mr Hoon for giving a television interview with
Jonathan Dimbleby in March 2002 in which he appeared to say that Britain
was entitled to take military action without a new UN resolution.

"The clarity of your statement and the apparently authoritative way it
was produced puts me, however, in a difficult position," he wrote.

Mr Hoon replied that a transcript of the interview made clear that "in
principle" military action could be taken if it was shown that Saddam
had weapons of mass destruction capable of a threat to the UK.

"My subsequent statements about the need to go back to the UN for a
specific resolution need to be seen against that background," he wrote.

"I do not think that my statements curtail your ability to offer an
opinion on the legal position in due course. As you say, we will need to
satisfy ourselves that this threat exists should we want to justify
legal action on the basis of self-defence."

Mr Hoon will be questioned this morning about the build-up to the
invasion of Iraq and is also expected to face scrutiny over claims that
troops were inadequately equipped for the conflict.

Mr Hoon, defence secretary from 1999 to 2005, will be the first former
minister to appear before the inquiry, following a string of military
leaders, advisers and officials.

The inquiry has already heard from senior military figures that
preparations for the invasion were hampered by ministers' fears that
developments would leak.

Admiral Lord Boyce, who was the chief of the defence staff at the time,
said he was allowed by ministers to start full-scale planning only four
months before the invasion.

Ministers had been concerned that news of their planning would undermine
efforts to get a new UN resolution requiring Saddam to give up his
weapons of mass destruction.

The issue was considered so sensitive, Lord Boyce said, that he was
ordered by Mr Hoon not to discuss it with the chief of defence logistics.

As a result, the military chiefs were unable to take any practical steps
to prepare for military action, such as buying in the extra equipment
they would need for the operation.

There are also expectations that Mr Hoon, who jointly organised the
recent plot to oust Gordon Brown, might use his appearance to increase
pressure on the Prime Minister.

Leaked ministerial letters have apparently shown that Mr Brown vetoed
the purchase of military helicopters for the campaigns in Iraq and
Afghanistan.

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