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Questions The MPs Will Not Ask Murdoch
By Robin Beste AT "Stop the War Coalition" and Information Clearing House.
What was it about the relationship with Murdoch that made Tony Blair feel it was appropriate to take a phone call from a newspaper proprietor just hours prior to the most momentous decision a prime minister can make: ordering the country's armed forces to war?
When Rupert Murdoch appears before the parliamentary committee on 19 July 2011, here are some questions the MPs certainly will not ask about various issues during the run up to the Iraq war, when Murdoch was, in the words of Blair's former press officer Lance Price, "the third most powerful figure in the Labor government", after Blair himself and Gordon Brown.
In 2002-3 all of your 127 newspapers around the world, with a combined circulation of 40 million a week, supported the Iraq war. We now know you were often in direct contact with the then prime minister Tony Blair, who you said at the time was "extraordinarily courageous and strong" and who had "shown great guts" in planning the war on Iraq. How much coordination was there between Downing Street and News International on the media presentation of what was widely regarded as an illegal war?
You said when interviewed in the run up to the war that Iraq's oil was central to the rationale for overthrowing Saddam Hussein: "The greatest thing to come out of this for the world economy...would be $20 a barrel for oil. That's bigger than any tax cut in any country." Tony Blair always insisted in public that Iraq's oil played no part in the decision to attack Iraq. To what extent did he agree with you in private that getting control of the world's second biggest oil reserves was at the heart of the war aims?
All of your newspapers used Tony Blair's "dodgy dossier" of September 2002 to try and generate a war fever with the bogus claim that -- in the words of The Sun headline -- "BRITS 45 MINUTES FROM DOOM". The hand of Alistair Campbell, Blair's press officer, is widely regarded as having been responsible for the dossier's fabrications. There was no coverage in the Sun or the rest of News International's outlets, when it was revealed that some of this dossier, which was supposed to present a cast iron case for attacking Iraq, was drawn from a 12-year old thesis, published on the internet by a PhD student. Was this because you and Blair made a pact that News International would be relentless in promoting the war, even if this meant using lies and distortion?
You spoke to Tony Blair by telephone on 11 March 2003, after the announcement by the then French prime minister Jacques Chirac that France would veto a second United Nations resolution sanctioning war against Iraq. Blair was banking on this resolution to help sell a war that was opposed by an overwhelming majority of the British public. The next day, the Sun wrote, "Like a cheap tart who puts price before principle, money before honour, Jacques Chirac struts the streets of shame. The French President's vow to veto the second resolution at the United Nations - whatever it says - puts him right in the gutter." To what extent did your conversation with Blair influence the co-ordinated attack on Chirac across all of your newspapers?
You spoke again with Blair on 13 March 2003. The next day, the Sun intensified its vitriolic abuse of Chirac: "Charlatan Jacques Chirac is basking in cheap applause for his 'Save Saddam' campaign - but his treachery will cost his people dear. This grandstanding egomaniac has inflicted irreparable damage on some of the most important yet fragile structures of international order." Did your conversation with Tony Blair reveal that the "grandstanding egomaniac" and "damage to the structures of international order" may have been more appropriately applied to him rather than to Chirac?
Your third phone call with Tony Blair within nine days took place on 19 March 2003, the day before the Iraq war started. What was it about the relationship you had with Tony Blair that made him feel it was appropriate to take a phone call from a newspaper proprietor just hours prior to the most momentous decision a prime minister can make: ordering the country's armed forces to war?
When the United Nations inspectors under Hans Blix could find no evidence of Iraq having weapons of mass destruction, the coverage in your newspapers bordered on hysteria -- "HE'S GOT 'EM. LET'S GET HIM" screamed the Sun headline. When it was later shown beyond dispute that the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq never existed, did you not feel that News International should have issued an apology for promoting a lie to justify an illegal war?
You spoke to Tony Blair on January 29, 2004. This was the day after the Sun leaked extracts from the Hutton Report into the death of government scientist David Kelly, who had been hounded to suicide by Alistair Campbell and the Blair spin machine. Kelly had been revealed -- almost certainly by a leak from Blair's office -- as the source of the BBC report that said the case for war had been "sexed up" in the "dodgy dossier". The Hutton Report, since thoroughly discredited as a whitewash, said Blair and Campbell were -- in the Sun's words -- "completely cleared of criticism". No such fate for the chairman of the BBC Greg Dyke and chairman of the BBC governors Gavyn Davies, both of whom resigned, as Blair, Campbell and your newspapers took the opportunity to savage the BBC for broadcasting the "sexed up" claim. When you spoke to Tony Blair on 29 January, were you both gloating over a spin job well done through the leaking of the Hutton report to the Sun, arranged we must assume between Alistair Campbell and Rebekah Wade (now Brooks), who was then editor of the paper?
You are renowned for putting the interests and the profits of your media empire above all other considerations. What payoff did News International get from Tony Blair for the unqualified support it gave for his illegal war in Iraq?
1.4 million people were killed in Iraq between 2003--2011. Another 4.5 million were made internal and external refugees by the war. The country's infrastructure was so devastated that even today, electricity is rationed for many Iraqis, many still do not have access to clean drinking water or a functioning sewage system, and the health service, which was once the most advanced in the region, now struggles to provide a decent level of care. I79 British soldiers were killed and hundreds more suffered life changing injuries. How do you feel about your role in this?
How does ISRAEL control and convey its geo-strategic objectives through his media empire?
What is Murdoch's true relationship with the extremist LIKUD party.
What surveillance technology was covertly imported from Israel to enhance his reporters ability to tail people in the UK?
What is the full list of policemen, serving and retired who work for his organization?
How did his media empire "manage" and control the 9/11 false flag episode for Israel, and how did his hacks tail the victims of 9/11?
Who are his insiders within the BBC, ITV, channel 4, Channel 5, cable TV etc.
Which intelligence officers from MI-5 work for him, and his surveillance projects in the UK?
Which nations, and organizations fund his business empire? Can a full list of ALL the businesses be obtained?
Is he a Israeli citizen? When did he become a Israeli citizen? How many countries is he a citizen of? Why so many?
How many meetings has Murdock had with Gordon Brown? How many phone calls has he made to him, and what were the nature of his phone calls?
What is his relationship with David Cameron? How many phone calls has he made to him, and what were the nature of his phone calls?
What is Murdoch's view of UK law, and how often does he think he has broken it?
What is Murdoch's view of the sovereignty and sanctity of the UK STATE?
To what extent does Murdock think he has subverted the UK state, and its security/public office in order to pursue his business ambitions, and religious based ideological ambitions?
What is his relationship with the Rothschilds of London, and to what extent have they played a role in his meteoric rise to such power? Does he think remote viewing them, tailing them and putting them under total 24 hour surveillance by private and national security entities will protect the national sovereignty and security of the UK state?
Clearly this event, staged managed as it is..........(Murdoch should have been grilled by the police first, OBVIOUSLY given his abrasive hands on approach to management, his ideology and the sheer size of his media empire.......as the man setting the parameters for such illegality, AND not his minions merely "following orders"), This is going to be another mini-Iraq inquiry with soft ball questions televised media event...which obviously will be well managed/handled by the media Mogul. Glib smiles and sorry apologetic faces.
