Brown Iraq inquiry evidence disingenuous - Lord Boyce
03.06.2010
"Nice try prime minister to say that we had everything we wanted"
Gen Sir Richard Dannatt
Former heads of the armed forces have strongly challenged Gordon Brown's evidence to the Iraq war inquiry.
The prime minister, who was chancellor when the war began, said the military had been given everything it asked for.
But Lord Guthrie, ex-chief of the defence staff, said in the Daily Telegraph that armed forces had been denied a request for more helicopters. >>>>>
Dannatt: 'Underlying underfunding' of defence
A former Chief of the Defence Staff has sais that the prime minister was "narrowly" correct about defence funding in his evidence to the Chilcot inquiry on the invasion of Iraq.
But, speaking on the Today programme, Gen Sir Richard Dannatt added that there has been "underlying underfunding" of the UK's defence since the 1997-98 defence review.
His comments come after two other former heads of the armed forces strongly challenged Gordon Brown's evidence. The prime minister, who was chancellor when the war began, said the military had been given everything it asked for. >>>>>
And on this side of the pond it's spin selling of books time, also trying to head off indictments, we have rove doing rovian speak.But in modern times ones nose doesn't grow as one speaks lies but their already, probably small to begin with reason they excert themselves like they do, short stature in another part of the anatomy grows smaller and smaller!!! In roves case there's alot going on in reverse in that chubby little body!!
Rove: Bush didn't 'lie us into war'
Karl Rove, often described as President George W. Bush's brain, defended the former president in a new book against claims that he lied to the American public in order to invade Iraq in 2003.
"[D]id Bush lie us into war? Absolutely not," Rove wrote in his 516-page book, "Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight."
The book highlights Rove's life and career and his time working for Bush. >>>>>
Now back to the at least real inquiry, or as reall as we may get before I'm gone.
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Why Gordon Brown didn't like to interfere as Tony Blair took us into battle
03.06.2010 Gordon Brown distanced himself from the dreadful things which went on in 10 Downing Street in the bad old days of Tony Blair.
Mr Brown, who was living next door at the time, conjured a picture of lace curtains twitching as he peered through his window and gazed with prurient fascination at the unmentionable things taking place on his neighbour's sofa.
What a revolting spectacle met the affronted Scotsman's eye: Mr Blair and a coterie of subservient Blairites were taking the country to war. But Mr Brown did not like to interfere. After all, the war might go wrong and destroy Mr Blair, after which Mr Brown could become Prime Minister. >>>>>
Lesson from Britain
03.06.2010 Occasionally television can be truly revealing. That was the case on Friday when the BBC broadcast live the interrogation by the Chilcot Inquiry Committee of the British prime minister on the Iraq war. As I sat glued to the screen, one conclusion seemed obvious - this single event shows how far short India falls of a great democracy and how much closer Britain is.
Consider the facts. Gordon Brown is a sitting prime minister. In two months he faces re-election. He had the choice of appearing in front of Chilcot after the elections but deliberately chose to do so ahead of them. And then for four hours - yes, that's the truth - he answered every question, knowing the Opposition and the press were waiting to pounce on any small lapse and fully aware he might never recover. >>>>>
Former military heads challenge Brown on Iraq
03.06.2010 Two former heads of the British armed forces have challenged evidence that Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave to a public inquiry into the Iraq war.
Families of British soldiers killed in Iraq have complained that some died because equipment was either inadequate or not available.
Giving evidence to the inquiry, Mr Brown insisted that as Chancellor, every request he received from military commanders was answered.
But writing in The Times, Admiral Lord Boyce accused Mr Brown of dissembling. >>>>>
Praise for slick Brown
03.06.2010 BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown bamboozled the Iraq war inquiry with a flurry of statistics and escaped unharmed by absolving himself of blame, the country's newspapers say.
Reports yesterday said the inquiry, headed by former senior civil servant John Chilcot, had failed to land a punch on an evasive Mr Brown.
The Prime Minister told a public inquiry on Friday it was ''the right decision'' to join the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq and brushed off claims that he denied funds for the military when he was finance minister.
''The smile said it all: mission accomplished,'' The Guardian's editorial said. >>>>>
Lord Guthrie: Gordon Brown did not give all we asked for
03.06.2010 Long before we went into Iraq or Afghanistan Gordon Brown was unsympathetic to the defence budget when he was chancellor.
The whole defence budget was extremely difficult to run in Mr Brown's time, says Lord Guthrie Photo: Peter MacDiarmid
The military wanted to do many things but because of his attitude they were unable to fund properly the Strategic Defence Review (1998) which the Cabinet had approved, especially at a time when other departments were being showered with money.
The Ministry of Defence received the bare minimum from the chancellor, who wanted to give the military as little as he could get away with.
The increases that we had in budget were small and did not take into account the above-inflation cost rises of defence. They also did not reflect the additional operations and tasks the Army was involved in, in the Balkans, Kosovo, Sierra Leone and East Timor, so when we had to do something in Iraq and Afghanistan we were not as well prepared and equipped as we should have been. >>>>>
Reporter wins case against Dutch secret service
03.06.2010
Dutch investigative reporter Wil van der Schans has won a freedom of information case against the Dutch Intelligence Service.
He had requested access to documents concerning the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Initially he was denied access, but now he has successfully appealed the decision. >>>>>
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