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A leading international lawyer has ruled out the prospect of Tony Blair going before the international criminal court after the long-awaited Chilcot report into the Iraq war is published.
Geoffrey Robertson, QC, a former United Nations appeal judge and author of Crimes Against Humanity, said the prosecution of the former prime minister as a war criminal was “a legal impossibility” |
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The 2.6m-word report was delivered to the prime minister at 11am on Tuesday. No one else has received a report, but Downing Street may have sent copies to other senior ministers.
Corbyn will not receive a copy until 8am on Wednesday, the same time as the families of some of the 179 British soldiers who died in Iraq. Chilcot is scheduled to make a statement at 11am, lasting 15-20 minutes, and the report will go online as soon as he finishes. |
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MI6 receives the 45-minute intelligence report - Lord Butler says it came "third hand" through a main well-established source
14 July 2004 Lord Butler's inquiry concludes that the 45 minute claim should not have been included in the dossier without explanations of what it referred to. The report also reveals MI6 now says the intelligence report on the claim "has come into question", with doubts cast about one of the links in the reporting chain. 12 October 2004 UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw tells the House of Commons that the head of MI6 has withdrawn the claim.  |
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what time press conference ?
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embargo till 11am
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You don't have the stamina !
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Chronicles of War, allegories and parables, Man's inhumanity to Man, the rise and fall of Empires. The Chilcot Report could be the new Bible.
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....or Koran?
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at a guess, Dominic Cummings' screeds on education and paliamentary reform probably contain better recommendations and diagnoses of the problems than Chilcot's epic.
1. Governments' default mode of operation is a state of blind panic with hastily constructed reactive responses designed to placate the commentariat. Goals are often poorly defined, and strategy even less so. Focus is poor. 2. Our elected leaders and ministers are not educated appropriately to lead or make complex decisions. 3. Politics attracts and rewards the wrong sort of people, particularly narcissists, and leaders are rarely elected on their ability to make good decisions or manage complex projects. It actively discourages the right sort of people from participating. Blair is a gigantic narcissist with poor judgement and mentally unequipped with the necessary education to provide good solutions to complicated problems. He has been trained to talk well, but not to think well. That's it. Now where's my money. |
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screeds?
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long essays
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Hopefully will get to see what conversations went on between bush & blair a year before the war, anything else will be a whitewash.
No doubt some high up army personnel will tkae the brunt.  |
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DStyle....are you from the 19th Century?
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I've already got the "don't rush into anything" and "perhaps people might change their mind when their realise some of the arguments/evidence were made up".
I'm looking for quotes from Blair criticising the leave campaigners for not having a proper plan so we break new barriers in hypocrisy. |
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what is the point of a stage & PR sh1t ?
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Would Blair actually be there do you think?
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are they going to mention that 'god' told tony to he had to do it ?
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that's the nutshell. they weren't challenged. the right thing to do was to set up groups directly tasked with challenging the "evidence" rather than getting into a great big groupthink wankfest.
it's a product of human behaviour, love to know what chilcot recommends. |
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I'm guessing he was made a sir for services to waffling
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tl;cl?
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Chilcot showing what a surgical strike is like.
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will the warmonger be arrested ?
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prob get knighthood
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Was hardly a whitewash. In fact, it seems as damming as a government inquiry could be.
We now have the bizarre situation where the current government, who were in opposition at the time, will be defending the Iraq war and the actions of the then government, and the current opposition, who were the instigators of the war, attacking the actions of their then government. |
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7 years to tell us what we already knew.
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it seems its not a whitewash but it probably changes nothing.
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If you got a few years. - here's chilcot report
http://www.iraqinquiry.org.uk/the-report/ |
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From the news so far, this does not sound like a whitewash.... But weapons inspector who "killed himself" David Kelly, the release of all medical records, including the results of the post mortem, and other unpublished evidence will be kept secret for 70 years. We should know the true circumstances of Dr Kelly's death now. Why do we have to wait 70 years to tell us that he committed suicide ?!
In 70 years time they will probably be saying that all the documents have been accidentally shredded. |
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LOL at Cameron defending New Labour
 Libya baby, Libya. |
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Cameron has wet dreams about being Blair
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"I'll be with you whatever" said Blair to Bush
reminds me of this .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABhZQ_VRbsQ |
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Camaroooon in PMQs said we need to learn the lessons doooh!!!!
Lot's of stuff not released - papers kept hidden by US etc etc yawn!!!! |
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Yes, we needed to learn the lessons before we went on to invade Afghanistan.
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Kevin Maguire @Kevin_Maguire Blair's love letters to Bush, expressing undying devotion, are extraordinary. The relationship was that of poodle & master |
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another one swept under the carpet.
ironic that the media now covering this are the same ones that were pumping out 'Saddam had weapons of mass destruction' 24/7 on the lead-up to the invasion. look at blairs & Bush's wealth before & after the invasion to tell you everything you need to know. I hope the families that have lost loved ones get together and sue the arses of the pair of warmongering murdering b4stards. |
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Kevin Maguire @Kevin_Maguire
Blair's spin doctor Alastair "Comical Ali" Campbell's fled to Spain from where he's defending the indefensible |