Call for Iraq war inquiry rejected (UK)

[phoebe]

www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/

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20 May 2005

The Government's lawyers have formally rejected calls for a public inquiry into the legality of the Iraq war from the relatives of servicemen killed in the conflict, it has emerged.

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They said they would seek judicial review if Mr Blair declined their request.

Shortly afterwards Mr Blair, in a television interview, rejected the call, insisting there was no need to go "back over this ground again and again".

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In the letter, the Treasury Solicitors stated: "The Government believes that military action in Iraq was fully justified.


Blair obviously so bored by it all...Based on the new minutes and memo it looks like this is going to blow up in his face

apologies if posted previously

[LynnTheDem]

1. If they believe (which they don't) that illegally invading Iraq was legal

(which it was not) then why not hold an inquiry, ESPECIALLY when the people asking are the FAMILIES OF THE DEAD.

Whatcha got to hide, bLiar?

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. "Blair says: 'What a GREAT IDEA! I'm guilty as hell!' "

Headlines we'd like to see, or can read in the subtext.

[tjwmason]

3. Note poodLe-boy's words

Shortly afterwards Mr Blair, in a television interview, rejected the call, insisting there was no need to go "back over this ground again and again".

The point is that this ground has never been gone over. The onLy point at which LegaLity was reaLLy considered (pubLicLy, I'm sure there have been tons of discussions privateLy in Downing Street) was when the terms of debate incLuded as vaLid stuff Like the dodgy-dossier, and the honest beLief that Saddam couLd Lauch W.M.D. with 45 minutes notice.

Since this position has been utterLy discredited every formaL discussion has had its parameters set so narrowLy as to avoid the vast pink eLephant in the middLe of the room.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. I have a letter from one of the Butler committee members

saying that the July 23rd 2002 memo wasn't in the area of their remit, so that it had nothing to do with their investigation. So we know they didn't go over it.

[Mechatanketra]

7. Sigh.

A system that leaves the decision of whether or not to investigate power abuses in the hands of those who might be abusing power is, in a word, asinine.

The only thing more asinine is that, as far as I know, such systems are essentially the default. Hence the American government.

[gratuitous]

4. Go over WHAT ground?

As far as I can tell, there has never been a full vetting of the evidence and events leading up to the invasion of Iraq, and certainly the governments of both England and the United States have been less than forthcoming with disclosure of what their basis was for all their public pronouncements.

Whatcha hiding, Tony?

[ConcernedCanuk]

6. Hoomans are sooo stooopid

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There is only one country that is a danger to the rest of the world and that is the United States of America - -

Who else has attacked another country in the last few decades that is not on their own CONTINENT fur chrissakes . .

and they(Iraq) weren't even at war with anybody!

None of Iraq's surrounding countries were hardly worried at all about Saddam - sure - he might have been a bad guy to some of his own citizens - - but like the USA isn't ??

USA has their warriors in over half the countries in the world -

gimme a break

The USA is the biggest threat to World peace

No one else

I'm increasingly of the opinion that if the USA disappeared off the map, the world would be a better place

sad to say, although I like most Americans I have met, they have let their government go over the edge

That's the problem with democracy, - if the majority are stupid or just plain misinformed - it don't work - -

Anyhoo - the next few decades should see Murika slide into a dismal depressed country - as they try to maintain their dominance with bullets and lies -

Won't work

:nopity:

[bpilgrim]

8. of course they'll reject it since they know they will lose

we must not let this issue go away. it must be put at least in the history books that they LIED to go to war an ILLEGALLY INVADED a sovereign nation that was not a threat to anyone.

we MUST do this or the precedent has been set and only more horror will follow.

peace