Chilcot Enquiry

[MMI]

According to everything Ive found about the Inquiry its not designed to put any one on trial so much as be used as a tool for future administrations as a planning debrief.

"Our terms of reference are very broad, but the essential points, as set out by the Prime Minister and agreed by the House of Commons, are that this is an Inquiry by a committee of Privy Counsellors. It will consider the period from the summer of 2001 to the end of July 2009, embracing the run-up to the conflict in Iraq, the military action and its aftermath. We will therefore be considering the UK's involvement in Iraq, including the way decisions were made and actions taken, to establish, as accurately as possible, what happened and to identify the lessons that can be learned. Those lessons will help ensure that, if we face similar situations in future, the government of the day is best equipped to respond to those situations in the most effective manner in the best interests of the country."

Sir John Chilcot

For more information about the Inquiry: http://www.iraqinquiry.org.uk/

You're quite right about that, den, but it's the best chance we have of getting to the truth of why Tony Blair took us into a war that most legal opinion says was illegal, in spite of the advice he was given, causing the death of two hundred Britons and thousands ("we don't do body counts") of Iraqis.

We can only hope that enough little smippets drop to the ground so that the jackals that call themselves news reporters can pick them up and make enough sense of the matter to show whether he was truly acting as a hero in a vital war, striking at the heart of terrorism, and making the world safe once more, or if he was doing something else, something far less glorious.

Watch this space.

[IAN 2411]

You're quite right about that, den, but it's the best chance we have of getting to the truth of why Tony Blair took us into a war that most legal opinion says was illegal, in spite of the advice he was given, causing the death of two hundred Britons and thousands ("we don't do body counts") of Iraqis.

We can only hope that enough little smippets drop to the ground so that the jackals that call themselves news reporters can pick them up and make enough sense of the matter to show whether he was truly acting as a hero in a vital war, striking at the heart of terrorism, and making the world safe once more, or if he was doing something else, something far less glorious.

Watch this space.

For once we actualy agree on something, it will never be proved but i have always thought there was a alterior motive, and i hope that the press pick up on it whatever it is.

Regards ian 2411