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[Spectator Live] The Edlington case is shocking and depressing to think about....: Finally, Straw also provided a very sharp anecdote about Dr Hans Blix, the head of UNMOVIC who was so opposed to war in Iraq. Describing how the prospects for building a consensus for war in the Security Council fell away, Straw related how an UNMOVIC report in March 2003 furnished 29 separate chapters of such alarming unanswered disarmament questions about Saddam that Straw himself was taken aback by the seriousness of the threat in Iraq.

[Latest Posts at LabourList.org] Jack Straw says British involvement in Iraq was never informed by ...: During Straw's oral evidence, he said the level of consensus that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction was "very broad" but was concerned that "we weren't getting as much intelligence as we ought to" – and he had complained to the MI6 on these grounds.

[The British National Party] The British National Party ”” Blog ”” Jack Straw Defends Invasions ...: Mr Straw was giving evidence at the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war, when he said that he “believed at the time, and I still believe, that we made the best judgements we could have done in the circumstances.

[Federal Union] Federal Union: Jack Straw at the Chilcot enquiry: a blunt instrument: “Resolution 1441 does not stipulate that there has to be a second Security Council resolution to authorise military action in the event of a further material breach by Iraq. The idea that there should be a second Security Council resolution was an alternative discussed informally among members of the P5 of the Security Council and the elected 10 during the weeks of negotiation, but no draft to that effect was ever tabled by any member of Security Council, nor put to the vote.

[Politics Home - The Green Box RSS Feed] PoliticsHome | News | Jack Straw memorandum to the Iraq inquiry: Ahead of his appearance at the Iraq inquiry today, Jack Straw released a personal statement in which he revealed that the decision to support the war was "the most difficult decision" of his life.

[Politigg] Jack Straw tells Iraq inquiry he could have stopped Britain ...: Tony Blair thinks about the soldiers and civilians who died in the Iraq war every day and suffers from continued doubts about whether he did the right thing, the former prime minister says in a new interview. Blair, now Middle East envoy for the Quartet group comprising the US, UN, EU and Russia, says he does not know whether history will vindicate him over the decision to invade Iraq.

[Alsumaria TV Iraq, Iraq news | Iraq News | RSS feed] Straw:Iraq regime change not British policy | Iraq News ...: UK former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said toppling Saddam Hussein’s regime was never a British policy as Britain sought till the last minute to avoid war on Iraq, he argued.

[Global News Blog Headlines] Iraq - Blair was aware of terrorist threat over Iraq war (Middle ...: The biggest casualty in the west’s War on Terror has been this nation’s tradition of rational debate.Discussions of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the hunt for Osama Bin Ladin and the insurgency in Iraq often become heated and give rise to vitriolic statements in the media by those bent on demonizing

[Nick Robinson's Newslog] BBC - Nick Robinson's Newslog: There's no escaping Iraq: Brown ...: In all of the salivating concerning the enquiry into the Iraq war being carried out for nefarious reasons by persons and organisations of varied dispositions there seems to be a deliberate failure forthrightly to acknowledge that Parliament overwhelmingly supported the Government's position and that on 5th May 2005 when Iraq was much more a raw issue than it is almost 5 years later the British electorate returned the Government to power with a majority of 67. There also seems to be a failure to acknowledge that since Gordon Brown was appointed Prime Minister in the summer of 2007 he has overseen the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq.

[Craig Murray] Craig Murray - Jack Straw's Biggest Lie: RT HON JACK STRAW: I was not in any doubt about that and neither was Jeremy Greenstock, and for very good reasons, which is that there had been talk by the French and Germans of a draft which would have required a second resolution, but they never tabled it. We tabled a draft, which, as I set out in this memorandum, and which Sir Jeremy Greenstock confirms in his memorandum, was aimed to be selfcontained, in the sense that, if very important conditions were met through failures by the Saddam regime, that of itself would provide sufficient authority for military action, and no doubt the next time we will get into the wording of the resolution, which, as I say in this memorandum, I can virtually recite in my sleep, but there are reasons why in OP12 we use the language that we do, and serious consequences are mentioned in OP13 and so on.

[BIGON Sandbank] Justice secretary to face Iraq inquiry | BIGON Sandbank: On Tuesday the inquiry, headed by Sir John Chilcot, heard from former defence secretary Geoff Hoon, who maintained military intervention in Iraq had never been inevitable but conceded Tony Blair had failed to brief him on crucial talks held with George Bush at the US president’s ranch in Texas in the build-up to the invasion.

[BBC NEWS | Talk about Newsnight] BBC - Newsnight: From the web team: Thursday 21 January 2010: Then we come to the consequences of the war, like angry Muslims blowing us up on the Tube and leaving behind testimony that they did it because of the illegal invasion and occupation of Muslim lands. That means they were incited by the actions of the government, something the intelligence agencies had warned would happen, that is incitement to commit murder and incitement to commit acts of war against the Crown, an act of Treason under English Law.

[Ephems of BLB » Ephems] Ephems of BLB » Blog Archive » Iraq: a plan is not a decision, Mr ...: But the worst thing about this debate is that it distracts attention from the real indictment of Blair and his colleagues, which doesn’t depend on subjective and unprovable suspicions: why did Blair abandon the UN route before it had run its course, when the conditions he had almost certainly laid down for UK participation in the war had not been satisfied, resorting to war when war was not the last resort, committing his country to action in contravention of the UN Charter and international law, destroying any chance of a united EU position on Iraq, outraging a significant segment of UK public opinion, and putting at risk his place in history, all at a time when the Americans were quite relaxed about the possibility of having to go ahead with their war without the relatively minor benefit of having the UK alongside? What justification do those concerned now put forward for such a cataclysmic blunder?

[The British National Party] The British National Party ”” Blog ”” Official Dutch Inquiry ...: Other key advisers on Iraq included his foreign policy adviser Sir David Manning, his chief of staff Jonathan Powell, chief of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove, chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee Sir John Scarlett, foreign secretary Jack Straw and defence secretary Geoff Hoon.

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