The British are “already” conducting an extensive Inquiry into the Iraq war and the process that led up to the invasion.
The Iraq Inquiry, also referred to as the Chilcot Inquiry, was announced on 15 June 2009 by the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. He announced that it would look into the country’s role in the Iraq War and would be held in private, a decision which was subsequently changed. Brown stated, “no British documents and no British witness will be beyond the scope of the inquiry.
And the Chilcot inquiry is now closing in on the real culprits.
Iraq Inquiry bombshell: Secret letter to reveal new Blair war lies
There is no point for me in elaborating on the implications and consequences of this article in today’s Mail on Sunday article. I’ll just extract a few choice paragraphs and trust that you will all click through to read the entire column (my bold).
An explosive secret letter that exposes how Tony Blair lied over the legality of the Iraq War can be revealed.
The Chilcot Inquiry into the war will interrogate the former Prime Minister over the devastating ‘smoking gun’ memo, which warned him in the starkest terms the war was illegal.
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He even concealed the bombshell information from his own Cabinet, fearing it would spark an anti-war revolt. The only people he told were a handful of cronies who were sworn to secrecy.
Lord Goldsmith was so furious at his treatment he threatened to resign – and lost three stone as Mr Blair and his cronies bullied him into backing down.
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The Mail on Sunday has learned that the inquiry has been given Lord Goldsmith’s explosive letter, and that Mr Blair and the peer are likely to be interrogated about it when they give evidence in the New Year. […]
The cat is out of the bag. The truth will come out – at least most of it. And whatever is still left of Tony Blair’s “legacy” will be demolished.
But when will the time come for a full inquiry into the Bush/Cheney administration’s lies to the public to start the unjustified and illegal war in Iraq? Thousands of soldiers killed and maimed for no good reason, not to mention the hundreds of thousands Iraqi dead, wounded and traumatized when their country was made into the theater of the “war on terror”.
There must be a special place in hell reserved for those responsible, but justice should be served long before then!
