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02 Feb 10
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8492526.stm
Tony Blair's cabinet was "misled" into thinking the war with Iraq was legal, ex-International Development Secretary Clare Short has told the UK's inquiry.
She said Attorney General Lord Goldsmith had been "leaned on" to change his advice before the invasion.
Mr Blair "and his mates" decided war was necessary, and "everything was done on a wing and a prayer", Ms Short said.
She quit the cabinet two months after the March 2003 invasion, in protest at planning for the war's aftermath.
In her evidence to the Iraq inquiry, during which she was highly critical of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, she said the cabinet had not been a "decision-making body" and called Parliament a "rubber stamp".
Ms Short, who was given a round of applause after her three-hour appearance, added that she had been "conned" into staying on as a minister until May 2003, despite her misgivings about the war.
Tony Blair's cabinet was "misled" into thinking the war with Iraq was legal, ex-International Development Secretary Clare Short has told the UK's inquiry.
She said Attorney General Lord Goldsmith had been "leaned on" to change his advice before the invasion.
Mr Blair "and his mates" decided war was necessary, and "everything was done on a wing and a prayer", Ms Short said.
She quit the cabinet two months after the March 2003 invasion, in protest at planning for the war's aftermath.
In her evidence to the Iraq inquiry, during which she was highly critical of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, she said the cabinet had not been a "decision-making body" and called Parliament a "rubber stamp".
Ms Short, who was given a round of applause after her three-hour appearance, added that she had been "conned" into staying on as a minister until May 2003, despite her misgivings about the war.
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Not an attractive character.......always seems to be snarling.........stress...?
Aftertimer par excellence
Robin Cook had the guts to resign at the decision to go to war. Short sat on the sidelines, wrung her hands, waited, did nothing, then wimped out like a damp squib after we had invaded.
Then, abdicating any notion of collective responsibility, she has the crass bloody nerve to come out with this knife-in-the-back job on Blair - and to crown it all she gets a round of applause!!
Unbelievable.
Robin Cook had the guts to resign at the decision to go to war. Short sat on the sidelines, wrung her hands, waited, did nothing, then wimped out like a damp squib after we had invaded.
Then, abdicating any notion of collective responsibility, she has the crass bloody nerve to come out with this knife-in-the-back job on Blair - and to crown it all she gets a round of applause!!
Unbelievable.
Yeah, I guess I had more faith in people to see what an utterly wimpy chancer she truly is
Best thing about Claire Short is you can put a single word in front of her name and turn it into a question . . .
Is Claire Short?
Can Robin Cook?
Does Richard Stillgoe?
Is Clare Balding?
etc etc
Is Claire Short?
Can Robin Cook?
Does Richard Stillgoe?
Is Clare Balding?
etc etc
Robin Cook had the guts to resign at the decision to go to war.
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We can all resign from a non-job. It would have been more interesting to see whether he would have resigned if he was still Foreign Secretary.
(The nutters'll be along in a minute saying how wee Robin was topped by the MI5 Black Arts Dept.that also did for John Smith, brought down the Twin Towers, and put itchy powder in John Major's underpants.
Just ignore them and they'll go away)
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We can all resign from a non-job. It would have been more interesting to see whether he would have resigned if he was still Foreign Secretary.
(The nutters'll be along in a minute saying how wee Robin was topped by the MI5 Black Arts Dept.that also did for John Smith, brought down the Twin Towers, and put itchy powder in John Major's underpants.
Just ignore them and they'll go away)
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