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[FREE MARKET FAIRY TALES] For that they have many people to thank, including incurious journalists and pliant judges. But most of all, Tony Blair is in debt to his New Labour friends for their efforts to get him off the hook ”” in recent days, Peter Mandelson and Gordon Brown.

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[www.the-vibe.co.uk] The endless controversy of the Iraq war | www.the-vibe.co.uk: As the situation is, it would be politically impossible not to hold at least part of the inquiry in public. As you have pointed out there are many benefits to holding the inquiry in private, in different circumstances I would opt in favour of a fully private one, but circumstances make reality and the reality is it would be political suicide to do so.

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[overland literary journal] overland literary journal » Time to study Australia's role in the ...: Already there’s been an uptick in violence suggestive of how very fragile the relative calm of the last months remains: a truck bomb in Kirkuk last weekend killing almost 70, a bomb attack in a Baghdad motorbike market killing 15 and wounding 50, a bombing in Sadr city killing 76.

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: Wahabists are the ultraconservative militant sect of Islam, based in Saudi Arabia, who invented the nonsense about the 72 virgins and encourage suicide bombing (it's really a hilariously bad interpretation of a single page in the Qur'an), and the Saudis pretty much started funneling those folks into the country the minute Iraq's borders became penetrable.

[Centurean2's Weblog] Blair Demanded To Have Privacy On IRAQ War Inquiry- Theres a ...: ALL the evidence which has emerged slowly and painfully since that disgraceful decision shows that it was taken to assist a foreign power(America) to line the pockets of that power’s leaders….and Blair’s pocket,too,since he has been well rewarded by America for his perfidious an unpatriotic stance) Parliament was lied to on the most serious issue that it can ever decide on: WAR. We want to know why…..and if demented wretches end up on trial for war crimes because of this,then so be it.

[PoliticalGroove Forums] Confidential Memo Reveals US Plan to Provoke an Invasion of Iraq ...: The memo, written on 31 January 2003, almost two months before the invasion and seen by the Observer, confirms that as the two men became increasingly aware UN inspectors would fail to find weapons of mass destruction (WMD) they had to contemplate alternative scenarios that might trigger a second resolution legitimising military action.

[Jack's Newswatch] Jack's Newswatch » Blog Archive » Named and shamed: However its criticisms are just the latest in a long line of attacks from senior Army figures on Mr Brown, who was Chancellor when U.S. and British troops attacked Iraq in March 2003.

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[blogs.telegraph.co.uk blog listings.] Telegraph Blogs » News » The withdrawal from Iraq is welcome and ...: Britain’s involvement in Iraq may have been the most controversial political issue of modern times, but that should not detract from the brilliant job our armed forces have undertaken in extremely challenging circumstances. After playing a leading role in the brilliant military campaign to overthrow Saddam Hussein’s detestable regime (it lasted less than four weeks), the British military managed to pacify the south of the country, despite being caught up in a violent, proxy war between Iranian-back insurgents and the U.S..

[Dr Ghulam Ashraf's Weblog] Secret inquiry into Iraq war will report after the election « Dr ...: Rose Gentle, whose 19-year-old son Gordon was killed in Iraq in 2004, said: “We have fought and fought for this but it will be no use and it could all be for nothing behind closed doors… the families who lost loved ones just want a simple answer to a simple question: why did we go in to Iraq?”

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