WMD not reason I backed Iraq war, says Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown is due to appear before the Chilcot inquiry in March
19 February 2010
Gordon Brown has said the threat of weapons of mass destruction was not the reason he backed the invasion of Iraq.
The PM told Tribune magazine that ministers were told there were weapons but his support was based on Iraq's "breach of international obligations".
He also said his appearance at the Iraq inquiry next month was a chance to show "everything I did was both thought-through and justified". >>>>>
Brown Iraq Inquiry Date Set
23 February 2010
The Prime Minister will give evidence to the Iraq Inquiry next Friday, it has been confirmed.
Gordon Brown's appearance on 5 March will be followed by International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander.
Foreign Secretary David Miliband will face questions from the panel chaired by Sir John Chilcot on 8 March.
Mr Brown has previously stated any decision he made in the run up to the 2003 invasion was "thought-through and justified". >>>>>
Human Rights Watch: When will USA Hold Torture Inquiry?
23.02.2010
In the United States of America, it has recently been concluded in a top-level report that lawyers who wrote covering memos authorizing torture did not violate legal ethics, an outrage which has prompted Human Rights Watch to call for a full inquiry into the abuse of detainees. The question also arises as to why the original charge of “professional misconduct” referred in the draft version of the Report was changed to “poor judgement”.
Two words typed into an internet search engine will immediately lead the researcher to the British site Iraq Inquiry, an in-depth study of the behaviour of the British Government in Iraq to deem whether the United Kingdom acted illegally in going to war outside a UN mandate, a process in which Prime Ministers and Government Officials past and present are subjected to the same grilling as “ordinary citizens”.
Would such an inquiry be possible in the United States of America? Hell, no! And after the results of the US Justice Department Report on the behaviour of lawyers working for the Bush Administration, this hardly comes as a surprise. >>>>>
Iraq rebel meets Chilcot
23, Feb 2010
Graham Allen MP, one of the organisers of the two biggest rebellions inside a governing party in British political history, will be meeting Sir John Chilcot to give information to the Chilcot Enquiry today. He said :
“I am asking Sir John to recommend correcting the three fundamental institutional flaws which were revealed by the lead-up to the Iraq War so that they are not repeated. >>>>>
Why America won’t come to terms with torture, Iraq and the Bush years
23 February 2010
Someone asked me why, in my previous post, I wrote that we’d never see a South Africa-style Truth and Reconciliation Commission here in America to sort through the transgressions of the Bush years. Good question!
The country would benefit from such an approach on our response to 9/11. In the weeks and months after those terror attacks, the White House, Defense Department, CIA and other agencies pursued moral and legally questionable actions and policies that are geopolitically and historically significant. They go to the heart of our national identity and place in the 21st century world. I’d include the Iraq war, but for the purposes of this post will focus on U.S. treatment of prisoners. >>>>>
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