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[Latest TopStories] Blair to appear before Iraq war inquiry | Top Stories | Telstra ...: Also due to appear at the inquiry next week is Peter Goldsmith, the former British attorney general who advised Blair on the legality of the war, spearheaded by the US administration under then president George W Bush.

[Daily Politics News] Blair to depose at Britain's Iraq war inquiry next week: Former British prime minister Tony Blair will give evidence to Britain's Iraq inquiry on January 29 in a full-day session expected to be attended by relatives of war victims and anti-war groups, it was announced Monday.

[WN.com - Photown News] Ballot to open for Tony Blair's Iraq inquiry grilling - Worldnews.com: Thursday, January 14, 2010 By Jonathan Freedland So now we know Alastair Campbell?s loyalty to Tony Blair has limits. ?If he?d asked me to jump off a building, I wouldn?t,?

[Dear Kitty. Some blog] Dear Kitty. Some blog :: Tony Blair at Iraq inquiry, 29 January ...: On Friday 29 January, Tony Blair try to explain to the Iraq Inquiry the lies he used to take Britain into an illegal war. Stop the War will hold an all-day protest outside the inquiry, which will include a naming the dead ceremony, .

[Canadian Content Forums] Revealed: Jack Straw's secret warning to Tony Blair on Iraq: It was sent 10 days before Blair met George Bush, then the US president, in Crawford, Texas, in April 2002. The document clearly implies that Blair was already planning for military action even though he continued to insist to the British public for almost another year that no decision had been made.

[Coventry Telegraph - Home - News] Coventry Telegraph - News - National News - Blair 'warned Bush ...: Jonathan Powell, who was the No 10 chief of staff, said that in a note to Mr Bush following their meeting at the president's Texas ranch at Crawford in April 2002 the prime minister had warned of the need to be prepared if things became "militarily tricky".

[Sindh Today - Online News] Sindh Today - Online News » Britain went to war with Iraq on ...: London, Jan 19(ANI): Jonathan Powell, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s chief of staff, has admitted that Britain went to war with Iraq on the “assumption” that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

[News | The Independent UK] News | The Independent UK - Goldsmith had doubts over legality of ...: Jonathan Powell, who was the chief of staff for the former prime minister, said that Mr Blair ordered his attorney general to give a "definitive" answer on the question of legality but denied that Lord Goldsmith had been bullied into giving his backing to the war.

[Ephems of BLB » Ephems] Ephems of BLB » Blog Archive » We still need to know why Blair ...: It’s possible to ask how he could have made even such a qualified promise to a foreign head of state and government without the prior agreement of his Cabinet, and no doubt that question will be put pressingly to him when he testifies to Chilcot.  But as I argued in my letter to The Observer (above), the more important question is surely why Tony Blair agreed to commit Britain to take part in Bush’s war with Iraq when war was manifestly not the last resort;  when the possibility of a peaceful resolution of the problem by allowing the weapons inspectors more time had still not been by any means exhausted;  when UN Security Council authority for the use of force at that time could not be obtained because a clear majority of the Council thought the use of force then would be premature; and when our major EU and other partners and allies were strongly opposed to starting a war at that time.  In other words, not one of Blair’s conditions, apparently communicated in advance to Bush, for joining the US in military action against Iraq had been satisfied when the attack began.  Yet we went to war anyway.

[Labourhome] Labourhome » Blog Archive » Campbell - Blair consulted Brown on ...: As a VERY senior member of the cabinet at the time Brown it’s totally unbelievable that Brown was not very heavily involved in this disaterous escerpade,as much as he may now try and distance himself from it,that simply won’t wash with the punters mate!

[The Common Ills] And the war drags on . . . « The Common Ills: It is the claim, written by him in the WMD dossier, and repeated by Tony Blair, that the "assessed intelligence" had established continued Iraqi WMD production "beyond doubt." But the intelligence, of course, established nothing of the sort, as both Blair and Campbell must have known.

[Scholars and Rogues] Scholars and Rogues » Stout Denial!: It found that when the Dutch government decided in August 2002 to support the attack on Iraq it treated intelligence about WMD and the legality of an invasion as “subservient”. The Dutch cabinet’s policy was laid out in a 45-minute meeting, and came at a time when the newly elected prime minister, Jan Peter Balkenende, was preoccupied with domestic concerns, it said.

[Latest Posts at LabourList.org] Is this one of the reasons why the Tories are not doing better ...: My personal opinion is that the Tory party is getting a very easy ride due to the setbacks Labour have had, and inevitable blame as the government in power, forthe expenses' furore and other issues- which in actual fact implicated all parties.(As for the Tories, in the consensus to go to Iraq.)And now the global recession, sparked by the USA banking crisis,and its repercussions.GB has received so little credit for staving off the worst effects, and keeping the economy stable.

[Tribune] Tribune » Blog Archive » Joy Johnson: Does hapless Hoon know ...: As Sir Richard Mottram, a former security advisor to Blair, put it in a lecture to the Smith Institute in July last year: “The reality is that many of the decisions are taken or left untaken by a Ministry of Defence machine in which the military - rightly - have a very strong, often decisive, voice. If, to take one example, we do not have enough helicopters, we should look in the first instance to the choices made over many years by the MoD, rather than to the present Prime Minister or the Treasury.

[Tony Blair] BBC 'Question Time' - ATROCIOUS LIES repeated & uncorrected « Tony ...: Is this meant to be a populist reference to Blair's government's Iraq war decision? If so, it again makes populist assumptions.

[politicalbetting.com] politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Is this how Iraq could play ...: Now as I understand it we do not invade countries to ensure regime change (I will stand corrected if that is wrong) and we did not in Iraq as the original reason was purely to secure the WMD. At the same time the 45 minute deployment time was a fact but personally, although Cyprus was mentioned as a target I considered this a deflection as I thought WMD would not be deployed against any state other than Israel.

[Guy Fawkes' blog] Suspicious Elvis Seen in Hereford - Guy Fawkes' blog: “An investigation by The Independent has found that the total cost of Labour’s 10 most notorious IT failures is equivalent to more than half of the budget for Britain’s schools last year. Parliament’s spending watchdog has described the projects as “fundamentally flawed”

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