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[MoneyWeek RSS - All] But what will the inquiry achieve? Lots of leaked information exists to confirm the fact that intelligence documents were sexed up and that then-Prime Minister Tony Blair and then-President George Bush struck a deal at least a year before the "elaborate diplomatic dance that preceded the invasion", says the FT.

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[US Post Today.] Tony Blair to be called to Iraq War Inquiry | US Post Today.: Asked whether Mr Brown would be asked to give evidence, Sir John said he was “not proposing today to offer a list of witnesses” but reiterated his committee’s desire to question the “key decision-makers in the different phases of the Iraq affair”.

[Breaking News] Britain's Iraq war inquiry will call Tony Blair to testify, but ...: Britain to examine Iraq war errors in inquiryLONDON ”” British Prime Minister Gordon Brown authorized a long-awaited inquiry into the Iraq war on Monday that aimed to examine mistakes made during and after the 2003 U.S-led invasion. Lawmakers and anti-war protesters have repeatedly demanded that an independent panel scrutinize what they say are a range of errors made by Britain, the United States and other allies in prewar intelligence and postwar planning.

[Washington Examiner Site Feed] Britain's Iraq war inquiry will call Tony Blair to testify, but ...: John Chilcot, the chairman of the Iraq Inquiry, outlines the terms of reference for the inquiry and explains the panel's approach to its work during a news conference to launch it at the QEII conference centre in London, Thursday, July 30, 2009. The head of a British inquiry into the Iraq war said Thursday he will call former Prime Minister Tony Blair to testify about the run-up to the conflict, but acknowledged it is unlikely that senior Bush administration officials would give evidence.

[Flopping Aces] Flopping Aces » Blog Archive » Tony Blair to testify at latest ...: Former civil servant John Chilcot said the inquiry, set up by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, would look at British involvement in the war, covering the period from the summer of 2001 to the end of July this year.

[Political Cortex] Political Cortex: Britain Launches Inquiry into Iraq War:  Then the Iraq War mission suddenly changed from a defensive war to protect the U.S. from those awful weapons of mass destruction and a nuclear holocaust to a freedom and democracy war for Iraq and the entire Middle East.  The delusional rantings succeeded in keeping the billions in U.S. taxpayers' dollars continuing the Iraq War debacle.

[UK News] UK News » Blog Archive » Should Britain hold another Iraq war ...: http://blogs.reuters.com/uknews/2009/07/ 31/should-britain-hold-another-iraq-war- inquiry/ - Posted by Chilcot statement & videos on Blair Trial ”¦ I mean ”¦ Iraq Inquiry « Tony Blair. August 2nd, 2009. 8:38 pm GMT ...

[Spectator Live] The Iraq inquiry should examine bureaucratic as well as political ...: Absolutely no blame will be attached to Tony Blair regarding the Iraq War. I believe that that is why there are no commanding, dynamic people on this Iraq War inquiry committee, even the timing is of Tony Blair's choosing.

[This Is WesternMorningNews channel feed] Tony Blair will appear before Iraq war probe: Sir John Chilcot outlines the terms of reference for the Iraq Inquiry at a news conference yesterday

[Global News Blog Headlines] Iraq - Britain's Iraq war inquiry will call Tony Blair to testify ...: LONDON - Britain launched its first sweeping inquiry into the unpopular Iraq war on Thursday - a potentially explosive national reckoning that will call ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair as a witness, and seek evidence from former White .

[Breaking News] Blair to be called to give evidence in Iraq war inquiry: Britain begins Iraq war inquiryLONDON ”” The head of a British inquiry into the Iraq war said Thursday he will call former Prime Minister Tony Blair to testify about the run-up to the conflict, but acknowledged it is unlikely that senior Bush administration officials would give evidence. John Chilcot, a former senior civil servant, said the relationship between Britain and the United States would form a key part of his panel's attempts to consider errors made by Britain, the U.S.

[News] Will the Iraq inquiry take into account that Iraq was ultimately a ...: Meanwhile, elsewhere on the Telegraph website it is being reported that Iraq’s “properly functioning, democratically elected government” may have had a hand in the kidnapping of the British IT chap and murder of his bodyguards, in an attempt to cover-up the theft of oil revenue money.

Mudville Gazette: A senior American military adviser in Baghdad has concluded in an unusually blunt memo that Iraqi forces suffer from entrenched deficiencies but are now able to protect the Iraqi government, and that it is time "for the US to declare victory and go home." The memo offers a look at tensions that emerged between Iraqi and American military officers at a sensitive moment when American combat troops met a June 30 deadline to withdraw from Iraq's cities, the first step toward an advisory role. The Iraqi government's forceful moves to assert authority have concerned some American officers, though senior American officials insisted that cooperation had improved.

[Tony Blair] Chilcot statement & videos on Blair Trial ”¦ I mean ”¦ Iraq Inquiry ...: We will therefore be considering the United Kingdom’s involvement in Iraq, including the way decisions were made and actions taken, to establish, as accurately and reliably as possible, what happened and to identify the lessons that can be learned. Now those lessons will help ensure that, if we face similar situations in future, the government of the day will be best equipped to respond to those situations in the most effective manner in the interests of the country.

[From My Thumb] The Iraq Inquiry. - From My Thumb: A complete failure of planning on every aspect of an Iraq after the war. Here they failed badly. 7. A deliberate attempt to bring Britain into a war badly planned and conceived. Here are the names of the triumvrate plus one. -Tony Blair - George W. Bush .... The content of this website belongs to a private person, blog.co.uk is not responsible for the content of this website. Show trackback address. Hide trackback address. Enter this code: *: The Captcha image ...

[The London Echo] Don't Make Tony Blair a Scapegoat over Iraq - The London Echo: One man is responsible for the Iraq catastrophe and the hundreds of thousands that perished as a result: George W Bush. Tony Blair is responsible for the hundreds of Britons who lost their lives and the loss of moral authority that this Nation so sadly suffered.

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