29 January 2011 - Tony Blair sidelined senior ministers in the run-up to the Iraq war because he feared they would leak details of talks about military action, the Cabinet Secretary said yesterday.
Sir Gus O'Donnell took a series of swipes at the former Prime Minister's style of government, telling the Chilcot inquiry that Mr Blair did not feel the Cabinet was a "safe space" to discuss moves to war. Britain's most senior civil servant also argued that ministers should have been given full legal advice about the invasion and that more detailed records of crucial meetings should have been kept.
He said key decisions were taken by Mr Blair's inner circle because he did not trust other colleagues to keep the discussions confidential.
"That is one of the reasons why the Prime Minister was reluctant at times to take as many Cabinet decisions as possible. He felt they would become very public very quickly," Sir Gus said. "Why would he not go for these meetings? I think because he would have thought it wasn't a safe space." {continued}
We know the costs in blood, never to totally in civilians, but what of the costs in treasury still not paid! How much to buy the coalition of the willing, how much to buy the CIA rendition and secret prisons globalizing torture, how much for the decades to come as to the results of both wars, more. Neither has been paid for, rubber stamping and rapid deficit rises started Before 9/11 and nothing as to the peoples responsibility, the VA, as to just one of the needs in those results from!
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Saturday, January 29, 2011
Blair 'distrusted Cabinet on Iraq war plans'
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