Wednesday, January 19, 2022

The Public Transcripts 10 Major General Graham Binns

Major General Graham Binns General Officer Commanding Multi-National Division South East, Aug 2007 – Feb 2008 talks about exactly how the UK forces supported the Iraqi General Mohan in Basra who commanded using a mobile phone...


Monday, January 17, 2022

The Public Transcripts 9 - Sir William Patey

Sir William Patey the British Ambassador to Iraq  from June 2005 to July 2006 talked a lot about electricity and moaned that the Iraqis wouldn't spend their own money...


The Public Transcripts 8 - Plugs and Sockets

 I can't remember who this was.  Someone military.  Made some comments about plugs and sockets...


Sunday, January 16, 2022

The Public Transcripts 7 - Sir David Manning ponders on whether George W gave the wrong speech to the UN...


Sir David Manning ponders on how George W Bush's administration was so bitterly divided amongst its self that they didn't even know what George W Bush would say to the UN before he said it to the UN ....and after he had said it Condoleezza Rice rang up to say that when he'd told the UN what they thought they wanted to hear about a second resolution that was only because he'd been reading the wrong draft of the speech because there were so many they got mixed up....?










The Public Transcripts 6 - Edward Chaplin on how things could have been handled differently and instability and sectarian violence avoided...

The Foreign Office's Political Director for the period from September 2001 through to July 2003 Edward Chaplin ponders on how things could have been handled differently and instability and sectarian violence avoided...



The Private Transcripts MI6 - SIS2 Part 2 - Alastair Campbell the “unguided missile”

  More redaction before Sir Lawrence Freedman asserts that after UNSCOM withdrew from Iraq in the late 90s MI6 lost most of its sources.. . ...