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[Liberal Democrat Voice] “It is not a court of law, the Chilcot Inquiry, it was explicitly set up not to determine whether it was illegal or not so that is going to have to happen elsewhere by the lawyers, by the court, but my view is that I have heard enough now to suggest that this wasn’t taken in line…and worse, more than that, there is clear evidence which has come out in the Chilcot Inquiry that the Attorney General who is supposed to be the guardian of the legality of doing things was flip flopping from one minute to the next, and there is overwhelming evidence and very serious allegations that he was pressured into keeping silent about his own reservations about the illegality of the war by Jack Straw, by Tony Blair and by others.

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[News] Chilcot Inquiry: Gordon Brown supported Iraq War, but Macavity was ...: To further underline the monstrous mendacity of the great grey greasy nostril-mining sociopathic, schizophrenic misfit, DumbDumb has felt incumbent upon himself to leave the bunker to run interference on behalf of McBully, and what a puerile job he makes of it too @ 11.14. You almost start to feel sorry for the sad apparatchik –

[Kahunas News] I funded Iraq war properly, Brown tells Chilcot inquiry | Kahunas News: The prime minister - who had originally been scheduled to give evidence to the inquiry after the general election - told the panel: “I was determined - and I may say it’s one of my regrets I wasn’t able to push the Americans further on this issue - that the planning for reconstruction was essential just at the same time as the planning for war if the diplomatic avenue failed.

[News Portal] I funded Iraq war properly, Brown tells Chilcot inquiry | News Portal: Questioned for more than four hours of by the Chilcot inquiry, the prime minister delivered a calm and measured performance. He began the session by paying tribute to the military personnel who had lost their lives in the conflict and told the panel the “difficult decisions”

[Latest Posts at LabourList.org] Gordon Brown at the Chilcot Inquiry | LabourList.org 2.0 ...: It's interesting, though, that Sir John Chilcot has essentially ruled Brown's appearance as off limits for electioneering. He opened the hearing saying he is "acutely conscious" that we are in the run-up to a general election, that the inquiry wants to "remain outside party politics" and that it has asked all political parties to respect that.

[Whatanews4u.Sports] BBC - World Tonight: Gordon Brown at the Iraq inquiry: As for that contentious legal advice from the attorney-general, who at the last moment assured the Cabinet that going to war in Iraq would be legal, despite his earlier reservations, No, he hadn't known about all the detailed discussions that had preceded it - but it didn't matter, because the final "unequivocal" advice was that the war would be legal.

[Scholars and Rogues] Scholars and Rogues » Gordon Brown at the Chilcot inquiry: While Blair and others appeared embarrassed by the fact that both America and the Iraqi government undertook significant policy and military initiatives without consulting the UK, which did of course have certain legal obligations as an occupying army, Brown appeared blithely unconcerned. More generally, while previous Labour party appearances have been characterized by the almost adversarial and/or confrontational response by the testifiers, Brown seemed to be having a conversation, and a not unpleasant one, with committee members.

[NewsBag] 'Brownwash': PM under fire over Iraq war defence (AFP) | NewsBag: He may have bamboozled the dopey Chilcot Inquiry. But in the court of public opinion, he still has serious .

[News | The Independent UK] News | The Independent UK - Brown on Iraq: I wasn?t at fault: But Brown disingenuously retorted by making reference to plans drawn up by the department to spend an extra £1.3 billion on new equipment that he maintains the department said they could fund with efficiency savings. Brown then went on to say that he doubted that this had been achieved and he even pompously declared that if every Whitehall department operated by the same rules then this would cost the taxpayer an additional £12 billion per annum!

[The Legal Blotter] The Legal Blotter » Blog Archive » UK knew 'no leg to stand on ...: UK knew 'no leg to stand on' legally to go to war in Iraq · legal advice March 6th, 2010. By Rosa Prince, Political Correspondent Published: 10:00PM GMT 26 Jan 2010.

[Nick Robinson's Newslog] BBC - Nick Robinson's Newslog: Gordon Brown at the Iraq inquiry: In giving his opinions on the situation in post-invasion Iraq, the PM gave the impression that officials were taken by surprise by the speed of events on the ground and, in any case, didn't have enough influence over the US to ensure that planning for reconstruction was taken seriously. Incredibly, he was speaking as if the UK had no prior experience of these kinds of operations.

[Watchdog Blog] Watchdog Blog » Blog Archive » The American Press, Guilty of ...: This man, the editor of The Press Gazette magazine (read by all British journalists) admits it, when taken to task over the fact that in order for Mr Blair to get ANY empathic coverage over his questioning on Iraq at the Chilcot Inquiry a private supporter paid around $3,000 out of his own pocket to advertise the unfairness of it all. STILL, even advertised on the index page at the Press Gazette’s own website, there was no mention of it by the know-all editor who makes a habit of opining on anything and everything else!

[Hiram's 1555 Blog] Cynthia McKinney Briefing « Hiram's 1555 Blog: McKinney will help introduce and contribute to a people’s juridical process aimed at articulating a new legal protocol to be known as The Calgary Principles. In the tradition of the Nuremberg Principles, the Calgary Principles will address the rampant criminality that tends to immunize from criminal prosecutions those who commit the highest order of international crime.  Among those who will also contribute to the proceedings will be Splitting the Sky and Anthony J.

[Headline UK News] Gordon Brown tells Iraq inquiry: I fully backed the war: Written by UK news, breaking UK news, latest UK news, latest UK politics news on March 5th, 2010. Gordon Brown has said that he was "fully in line" with the decision to invade .

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