Truth, If Not Justice: Britain's Iraq Inquiry

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sent by RicKelis since 73 days 2 hours 41 minutes, published about 72 days 16 hours 37 minutes
The trial of George W. Bush, Tony Blair, and the gang that got us into the Iraq War has now begun, after a fashion. It's not taking place in the United States. And it doesn't call itself a trial at all. There won't be any convictions, nor even any conclusions likely until 2011. We won't see ex-president Bush, or Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, or George Tenet in the dock. But Great Britain's long-awaited Iraq Inquiry is about as close as we'll get to an exhaustive investigation of the people and decisions that took the Americans, the British, and their motley Coalition of the Willing into dubious battle against Baghdad in 2003. At its worst, the inquiry headed up by the mild-mannered former civil servant Sir John Chilcot will be a whitewash. At its best, it will be an exercise in truth and reconciliation.
tags: iraq, britain, bush-blair war crimes
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  1. #1    Don't ever sell the Brits short. There have been British statesmen who have had the courage to voice the truth from Edmund Burke and William Pitt in preRevolutionary War days to Winston Churchill by dint of force of will and glorious phrasings kept democracy alive to what some consider the ignoble John Profumo, who resigned his position not because he gave away British secrets to Christine ...... a call girl who was also involved with a Russian attache, but because he lied to his fellow members of Parliament, then sentenced himself to teach school in the slums of London. Perhaps Sir John Chicot is cut from the same cloth.
    written by deke4 since 72 days 8 hours 12 minutesdeke4
  2. #2    The entire Bush administration deserve not the dock but the gallows. That's justice.
    written by godistwaddle since 72 days 3 hours 48 minutesgodistwaddle
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