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The long-awaited Chilcot report into the Iraq war is reportedly set to savage Tony Blair and other former government officials in an absolutely brutal verdict on the failings of the occupation.
The former Prime Minister wont be let off the hook over claims he offered military assistance to the former American President George W Bush, a year before the invasion of Iraq, a source told the Sunday Times.
The Inquiry, which was set up by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown in June 2009 to look into the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, will release its 2.6 million word report just two weeks after the EU referendum. It is expected to damage the reputations of a number of high-ranking officials.
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The Iraq Inquiry will be based on the testimony of more than 150 witnesses, who contributed to more than 130 sessions of oral evidence. It also incorporates the results of the examination of 150,000 Government documents examined.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/chilcot-report-tony-blair-set-to-be-savaged-in-absolutely-brutal-iraq-war-inquiry-verdict-a7041926.html
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld,,,,, you will be judged too when this inquiry comes out
Jack Bone
(2,023 posts)K&R
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)I wonder if this will interfere with Blair's?
muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)It's fairly irrelevant to his business - he's more about trying to make bastards (whether corporations or regimes) look respectable on the international circuit, rather then being a lobbyist for them in Britain. Maybe if a Blairite got into power in the UK, he'd consider how much he could make by spending more time here to influence them.
deminks
(11,014 posts)There is discussion about impeaching the lapdog, even at this late date. But of course, impeachment is off the table here, and we don't look backward.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)mention this story when it breaks with more than a 15 second spot
It will or should have political implications for our presidential election
since 'we' pushed this bullshit. Gee didn't an x president write an editorial
in the British papers telling them to 'trust Tony Blair' on going to war with Iraq? Let me see how I voted on that.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Who the F cares? NOTHING AT ALL will happen to him. Or his fellow War Criminals.
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)malaise
(269,054 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)Geez.........everyone knows that.
Which is why
Lord Hutton decided that evidence related to the death, including the post-mortem report and photographs of the body, should remain classified for 70 years. and only one Dr.was allowed to view and inspect the body and decided it was suicide
Although suicide was officially accepted as the cause of death, some medical experts have raised doubts, suggesting that the evidence does not support this. The most detailed objection was provided in a letter from three medical doctors published in The Guardian,[28] reinforced by support from two other senior physicians in a later letter to the newspaper.[29] These doctors argued that the autopsy finding of a transected ulnar artery could not have caused a degree of blood loss that would kill someone, particularly when outside in the cold (where vasoconstriction would cause slow blood loss). Further, this conflicted with the minimal amount of blood found at the scene. They also contended that the amount of co-proxamol found was only about a third of what would normally be fatal. Dr Rouse, a British epidemiologist wrote to the British Medical Journal offering his opinion that the act of committing suicide by severing wrist arteries is an extremely rare occurrence in a 59-year-old man with no previous psychiatric history.[30] Nobody else died from that cause during the year.
mainer
(12,022 posts)and he said it's well-accepted among his colleagues that Kelly's death was not a suicide.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)doesn't register after 70 years
muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)This does not bode well for the authorities taking this seriously in 70 years time.
eg
http://www.the-hutton-inquiry.org.uk/content/transcripts/hearing-trans42.htm
http://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/aboutus/aboutus-depts/aboutus-depts-infman/aboutus-depts-foi/aboutus-depts-foi-disclosure-log/aboutus-depts-foi-disclosure-log-investigate/aboutus-depts-foi-disclosure-log-item.htm?id=168158
http://www.the-hutton-inquiry.org.uk now gets you pages headed "Personal Injury UK Advice on making personal injury or accident claims in the UK." Nominet records show they've had it since Oct 2013.
malaise
(269,054 posts)mainer
(12,022 posts)just wanted to add to the thread.
malaise
(269,054 posts)because otherwise I'd jump. That Kelly murder was one of the worst crimes in my lifetime - killed him because he knew their illegal war was a lie. He knew there were no weapons. They'd all be in prison for that alone
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)YET We Hope for Change.
Thanks for the heads-up, Ichingcarpenter. Tony the Poodle is gonna piddle his widdle pantsuit.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)but not much more than bad press for him.
But we can be hopeful
it might go further
I hope the US covers the story....LOL....... ok
I'm a joker.....
Octafish
(55,745 posts)...covers the auto industry. Always with the talking points...liberals blah blah.
Goes to Europe and comes back with jaw open. Says the media there (Deutschland, France, real continental stuff) cover so much stuff they miss here.
I just stare.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)but I look at many sources just like you to decide what's what.
Some US news are good but it usually comes from alternative media that has to be filtered too.
The US mainstream news is corrupted but sometimes they say things they don't realize what it really said.
This British paper isn't bad but also has an agenda like everyone does.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)Poodle has been getting rich. The sneer on his face speaks volumes.
http://a1.files.biography.com/image/upload/c_fill,cs_srgb,dpr_1.0,g_face,h_300,q_80,w_300/MTIwNjA4NjMzNzQzNTc0NTQw.jpg
jwirr
(39,215 posts)And I suppose he doesn't really have a good reputation to lose. So I reconsider - no one is going to suffer yet.
malaise
(269,054 posts)Wink!!
90-percent
(6,829 posts)"These people" being every world leader and their henchmen that knowingly lied America into an unnecessary and tragic and crime against humanity invasion.
And Richard Clarke's hope re that these people are no longer welcome in polite society.
Although in these times they'd give Rummy and Condi their own reality show. Tagline: SYRIA! You're invaded!
-90% Jimmy
malaise
(269,054 posts)<snip>
What has received far less attention is the devastating evidence Chilcot heard about the invasion making Britain more vulnerable to terrorism. Blair has always dismissed suggestions that his foreign policy decisions were in any way responsible for encouraging terrorist attacks and radicalising young British Muslims as a charge perpetuated by the left.
The evidence to Chilcot contradicts his assertion. Lady Manningham-Buller, head of MI5 at the time, bluntly told the inquiry the invasion undoubtedly increased the threat of terrorist attacks in Britain.
She said she communicated her view to Blair via Whitehalls Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC). The number of plots, the number of leads, the number of people identified, and statements of people as to why they were involved, all pointed to the increased terrorist threat to the UK.
Our focus was then on dealing with the manifestations of terrorist threats in the United Kingdom since 9/11. Our work was increasing exponentially. It increased very much more when we went into Iraq
She told the inquiry: To my mind Iraq, Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11, and continued: Our involvement in Iraq radicalised, for want of a better word, a whole generation of young people. Some British citizens saw our involvement in Iraq as being an attack on Islam.
librechik
(30,674 posts)unindicted co-conspirators