As well as those about the necessity of leaving Afghanistan, instead of helping them as once again promised, to smolder into a much more dangerous occupation theater and still no bin Laden!
Chilcots got the only show in town, we here don't do accountability for that done in our names, where we can read between the lines to get some of the answers while some are laid out directly by the testimony and released documents.
23/01/2011 - On Tuesday last week in Saddam Hussein’s home town in Iraq, a suicide bomber joined a queue of police volunteers and blew himself up. Sixty people were killed.
On Wednesday two suicide bombers posing as ambulance crew detonated their explosives, murdering 14 people.
And on Thursday two bomb attacks at a religious festival killed at least 50 worshippers.
Not a good week in Iraq. This is the bloodshed we’ve left behind, and we’d do well to remember it.
It’s also one of the reasons why we need to get to the truth about the basis on which we invaded the country in the first place.
This is the job of the Chilcot Inquiry into the war, in which 179 British servicemen died.
But it seems likely that the whole truth will remain elusive, particularly after Tony Blair’s second appearance on Friday.
The former Prime Minister again used the September 11 terrorist attack on America as the blanket justification for everything.
But crucial in all this is the whole question of what assurances Tony Blair gave to President Bush in the run-up to the war.
Did he privately promise to back the invasion regardless of Parliament, public opinion and the legal position as given to him? {continued}
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