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[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.

[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.

[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, .

[News | The Independent UK] News | The Independent UK - Goldsmith had doubts over legality of ...: However, official documents seen by the Iraq inquiry team suggest that Lord Goldsmith, responsible for advising the government on the legality of the invasion, was not persuaded that the resolution had resolved the legal question marks in the months after it had been agreed.

[Harry's Place] Harry's Place » Iraq war criminal: The bottom line that persuaded Bush to go to war was that should a successful attack have been mounted against the US with the collusion or help of Saddam, the US electorate would have demanded both his resignation and a massive counterstrike against Iraq. The reason for the botched reconstruction is much more complex, but quite logical when the legal, cultural and logistical details were considered by the Bush Administration.

[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".

[Tony Blair] Iraq war “illegal” says independent Dutch probe. Will Balkenende ...: Lawyers such as those serving on the Dutch commission, tend to err on the side of the niceties of the law in these matters. Governments have to interpret the law in a way that takes account of wider considerations, in this case the need not to allow legal niceties to stand in the way of disarming a brutal dictator who was defying the international community.

[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.

[Scholars and Rogues] Scholars and Rogues » Stout Denial!: This complaint was made by members of the Foreign Office as well, but more against the US than against the Foreign ministry””-that the British government was not allowed to prepare for a military occupation, again because the Blair and Bush governments did not want anyone to know they were actually preparing for war. A number of foreign office and military leaders testified directly that thre was entirely too much reliance on the US government for leadership in this area””-we now know that the US government was being pretty delusional in 2002 and 2003.

[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”

[Centurean2's Weblog] Kids being kicked in head like football in Brit madrassas Koran ...: The YouGov survey for the Sunday Times found less than a third accepted that Mr Blair ‘genuinely believed in the threat’ which he used to publicly justify sending UK troops while 52% thought he had ‘deliberately misled’

[politicalbetting.com] politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Is this how Iraq could play ...: With the next big event at the Iraq inquiry being the public appearance of Tony Blair it's going to be increasingly difficult for Lord Chilcott and ministers to maintain that Gordon Brown should be able to put off his appearance until ....

[Tribune] Tribune » Blog Archive » Joy Johnson: Does hapless Hoon know ...: When Donald Rumsfeld, George Bush and Tony Blair unleashed “shock and awe” on Baghdad Geoff Hoon asked: “Has the war started?” Despite being Defence Secretary, he was out of the loop.  As far as Blair was concerned, when it came to decision-making, Hoon was unnecessary. His unfailing support for the Iraq war meant he had only to follow orders.

[UK News] UK News » Blog Archive » Was there a “precipitate rush to war ...: Blair made an honest statement on one occasion (!) when he said to a BBC interviewer that he was concerned to stop nuclear proliferation and that “we had to start somewhere”.

[Latest Posts at LabourList.org] Is this one of the reasons why the Tories are not doing better ...: For a putative Prime Minister such as Tony Blair who was trying to demonstrate how much his party had moved on from the discredited government that lost the 1979 election, the fact that there were only a very small number of shadow cabinet members associated (in a fairly small way) with that former government I think sent a strong message. It was that the old ways of doing things were out and his party had fundamentally changed.

[Centurean2's Weblog] BLAIRS' PAYBACK FOR IRAQ WAR”¦.£££££££$$$$$$$$$ « Centurean2's Weblog: We saw it again during the Iraq War, or what might be renamed the Cheney-Haliburton Conflict, when Tony not only bent right over for Cheney-Bush but then cashed in by taking a role as an ”˜advisor’ with J P Morgan, part of the bankfia that did rather well from the Iraq war and whose bonus culture is still ripping off people across the world. And even now that Tony’s gone, the UK is still paying dearly for Tony’s cash-for-honours scandal.

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