Katharine Gun, Who Came Closest To Stopping the Occupation of Iraq: The Invasion Was a Success

Interview with Katharine Gun on Iraq Invasion “Anniversary”, Her Upbringing in Taiwan, Christianity, Pandemic, Geopolitics and the Future of Humanity

Daniel Ellsberg: “No one else — including myself — has ever done what Katharine Gun did: Tell secret truths at personal risk, before an imminent war, in time, possibly, to avert it.”

My just-completed audio interview with Katharine Gun is available on Rokfin.

Every time I think of Katharine I’m reminded of the Rumi line: “This is the sound of your own voice echoing off the walls of God.”

This is because she exposed “the most important leak”, in the words of Daniel Ellsberg, an NSA memo showing the US and British governments were attempting to blackmail or bribe the UN Security Council into granting authorization for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. She may well have prevented such authorization but Bush, with Blair and Biden’s backing, started the invasion nonetheless with contradictory demands and the “Shock and Awe” bombing campaign 20 years ago.