SBS Australia | Carmel Travers: Truth, Lies, and Intelligence 2005 (Waka)

Originally aired 2005. "In March 2003 thousands of Australian troops and others were sent to fight a ‘war’ as part of a pre-emptive strike on the sovereign nation of Iraq, a country from whom there was no threat. Two years on, in the wake of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi casualties, the Australian military reports its first casualty in the conflict while the American death toll stands at nearly two thousand. This being the a result of an invasion which has all but destroyed a foreign nation and seen millions made homeless, families destroyed, hundreds of thousands of deaths, leaving a legacy of destruction and religious division instilled in its wake. How did the Australian government come to play a part in this terror?"



This important mainstream documentary points out that the war against Iraq was concocted by the neocons against a country that was no threat to the USA. One Australian intelligence officer resigned in protest about the lies and went to the media. It caused a fair amount of fuss at the time but did not stop the conflict. The war did not come about because of 'faulty intelligence' but deliberate lies. Claims made by US politicians, where they said they knew where Weapons of Mass Destruction were located, and that there were ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda, were not backed up by any (confirmed) intelligence, especially when it came to the WMDs:

WMD LIES - Bush Cheney Rumsfeld etc. - THE ULTIMATE CLIP (acerlghp)


The bottom line is that invading Iraq was a war of aggression, and a crime. The fact that nothing was done to hold the criminals accountable led to further regime change wars in Libya and Syria, and also Ukraine, and has led to millions of deaths and the mass migration crisis in Europe.

Subsequent to the airing of this SBS documentary an unredacted version of the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq was released that stated the country was no threat to the US, or to countries in the region, unless it was attacked.

The US Congress, that authorised military action, was given an altered version of this report that implied the opposite. The unredacted document proved the war was launched on lies and was completely unnecessary. A hearing organised by US Congressman Dennis Kucinich brought to light this critical information:  

Hearing on Limits of Executive Power: Vincent Bugliosi (videocafeblog)


Remember, there is no statute of limitation when it comes to war crimes. 

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, July 28, 2026.]