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7 years
cost £12 mill 2 million words long will take 8 years to read it |
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Tessa hints Chilcot has exonerated Blair
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Yes, targeting British soldiers instead
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awful if true
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bliars high profile of late suggests he is in clear
will we get an inquest into chilcot ? |
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we've already had establishment enquiries on this and they were whitewashes, lets not set our sights too high . i hope i'm wrong as i feel blair deserves to be at the hague.
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chilcot-chilcot enquiry
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if you want a copy i believe its nearly £500?????
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a monkey
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just googled it and the indie says £767 for a physical copy
. maybe on the www for free?families of dead soldiers will be given a summary for free. |
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Can you get one for free if on benefits?
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Waited 7 years for it, and now with all this Brexit fallout it will probably put the Iraq inquiry in the shade. I hope it doesn't and Blair & co should face the full consequences of their actions. Warning - Whitewash Ahead!
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Always going to be a whitewash, shame as Blair needs to end up in prison.
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The 12-volume report is 2.6m words: as long as a dozen doorstop history books.
-The complete report will cost £767. -So far, Chilcot has cost £10m – for a war that cost Britain at least £10bn. - At least 100,000 Iraqi civilians were killed during the period Chilcot covers. Let’s hope the report finds room in its 2.6m words to emphasise that. - 179 British military personnel killed in the Iraq war “In some ways the report has gone stale,” says Menzies Campbell, the former Lib Dem leader and a longstanding critic of Chilcot’s slowness. “The duration of Chilcot has diminished it. On the one hand, Blair has already got a defence out. On the other, there’s almost nothing Chilcot can say about him that will damage his reputation any further.” The inquiry is essential … Its scope is unprecedented … It will have access to all government papers, and the ability to call any witnesses.” Gordon Brown concluded: “I am advised that it will take a year.” |
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only need sell 13k copies and its break even
roll up roll up ... |
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People in high places make mistakes.
Look at Cameron, didn't he want to take us into Syria and had plenty of supporters for that idea, despite knowing what happened in Iraq? Blair didn't know what a balls up invading Iraq would turn out to be. The same goes for Bush they both got it wrong. They worked on the information they had at the time. That doesn't make them war criminals. |
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imo you inadvertently say the right thing crippen, They worked on the information they had at the time.
for they did work on the information and then re-work it several times until it fitted their preconceived ideas. you are, of course, entitled to a different opinion. |
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Bush an Blair are good men with honorable intentions. They were naive and didn`t know just how barbaric and irrational some countries are.
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were naïve
your gullable lfc1971 |
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Blair won another election two years after we'd gone into Iraq.
So whatever Blair did wrong, it took it's time to become apparent to everybody. |
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how many tens of thousands Iraqis have been murdered in the past by Iraqis..not just in the past few years but down the centuries. Well it may be millions, i am sure i read it somewhere.
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now Britain and America defeated Germany and Japan and deposed military dictators in these countries with far greater devastation.
And both Germany and Japan went on to bulid beautiful and free democratic countries. |
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Just suppose that after the invasion, a new administration had been put in place and succeeded in governing?
The bloodbath would not have happened, and no one would pointing fingers now. So it wasn't a case for going to war for the wrong reasons until it all went wrong. It was only then that they got stuck into Blair as a possible war criminal. |
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and why has it not succeeded, well i am sorry but that responsibility goes to the people of Iraq, and not just the politicians but the thousands of fanatics from every section of that society...therein lies the blame so i suggest we stop the bullsh1te about blaming Blair and Bush
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I Iraqi tweeted
now there is 1000 sadaams sectarian |
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I agree with lfc1971.
We just didn't realise what these people are like before we invaded. We don't even know now, otherwise we wouldn't be so keen to let so many of them come to this country. |
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plenty of people did realise though, one or two million marched in the streets of london. i dont recall any march in support of the war in these numbers.
plenty of middle east experts told them that they were playing with fire and said you must have a post war plan. the likes of rumsfeld and cheney more or less thought such a thing unnecessary. the decisions to kick out all baath party members and to put young, poltical cronies into important jobs rather than those with experience in reconstruction were major faults. |
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huge rally Glasgow
I was there blair needed to be escorted out by helicopter for his safety |
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to think the awful fecker is now worth over £100 million yet we pay for his protection for life
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people like to march against war, it makes them feel like they are good people.
it was America and Britain, they were determined to protest against anything Bush would do. look the problem can be seen as political, or religious, or any number of things. Have you heard of ant Iraqi who questions the religious and tribal nature of their society, anyone who even thinks that way is in danger of losing his life. And do they ask what is wrong if our religious differences lead to this..or do they inform and persecute thir own people. until they are honest enough to address these things nothing can change |
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If ever there was a politician who was damaged goods it's Blair, but he's still hungry for publicity.
One thing is for sure, given how vocal he's been lately, he's not exactly worried about whatever's in the Chilcot report after 7 years, been well informed he can sleep easy no doubt. |
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Blair has cynically tried to get 15 million leave campaigners on his side since the Brexit vote, his type will do anything to win favour. As posted earlier he probably knows what is being published and feels exonerated to poke his big nose into events once more.
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blair read it weeks back, the fact he shows his face tells me hes somehow in the clear,
but of course the real world knows the sort he is |
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This excellent article by Jeremy Bowen sums it up. Who needs Chilcot when you get this from the horse's mouth?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36706265 I asked Kadhim what he would do if he could meet Tony Blair. "I would say to him you are a criminal, and I'd spit in his face." Iraqis have often made matters worse for themselves, but it was mistakes by the US and Britain that pushed Iraq down the road to catastrophe. |
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blair read it weeks back
Isn't the delay in publishing, due to those mentioned in the report being able to challenge the findings before they were released? If so then Blair must have read it years ago. |
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Blair probably helped write it.
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Like Hutton will be a whitewash
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That's a good piece Injera.I've been to pre war Syria in 2008.That time it was totally safe and life went on relatively normally.I bet most Syrians would give anything to go back to that.Likewise Libya.
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From that BBC piece "Jihadists were not in Iraq before the invasion. Shia and Sunni Muslims, whose sectarian civil war started during the occupation, could co-exist."
It was similar in Syria.I visited a beautiful Christian chruch in Aleppo.I wonder what has become of those people now?.The invasion of Iraq eventually destablised Syria too.Blair has blood on his hands. |