Tony Blair is gaga over it too, saying in a speech he got paid ÂŁ90,000 to give: "To be honest, until I looked at the list of what formaldehyde does, I had no idea of how many parts of my life were governed by the existence of this thing. When I go back home,... Full Article at Treehugger
LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 02: Hilary Benn, the current Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, leaves the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre after giving evidence to the Iraq Inquiry on February 2, 2010 in London, England. Mr Benn served... View Photo »
LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 02: Former Cabinet minister Clare Short (c) leaves the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre after giving evidence to the Iraq Inquiry on February 2, 2010 in London, England. Former international development secretary Clare Short... View Photo »
It is perfectly possible to win general elections without the support of the City and the bosses of substantial private-sector companies. Full Article at BBC News
Source: this is london Tony Blair was accused by the French government of Soviet-style black propaganda in the run-up to the Iraq war, secret memos obtained by the Iraq inquiry have found. Full Article at Democratic Underground
Gordon Brown will appear before the public inquiry into the Iraq war in early March, a spokesman for the probe said Tuesday. Brown was finance minister at the time of the 2003 US-led invasion, and is being called to give his account of the conflict several... Full Article at France 24
In a recent feature that I wrote for the magazine, on Tony Blair and the Chilcot inquiry, I quoted Sir Rodric Braithwaite, former chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), on how our former PM has "has lost all political credibility": "He stic... Full Article at New Statesman
Minister Gordon Brown will appear before the public inquiry into the Iraq war in early March, a spokesman for the probe said today. Brown was finance minister at the time of the 2003 US-led invasion, and is being called to give his account of the conflict... Full Article at NEWS.com.au
Blair was accused by the French government of Soviet-style black propaganda in the run-up to the Iraq war, secret memos obtained by the Iraq inquiry have found. The Chilcot committee has obtained confidential phone records showing that then foreign secretary... Full Article at This Is London
It was a good point made in an unhysterical column written after she encountered an armed policeman in a peaceful London street. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
Asked on US television why Britain had held a succession of such probes into the invasion, he said: I think its partly because we have this curious habit I dont think this is confined to Britain actually where people find it hard to come to the point where... Full Article at Daily Express
Tony Blair attacked the hunt for a "conspiracy" and a "scandal" over his decision to commit British troops to the Iraq war in 2003. Full Article at Channel 4
George Bush warned Tony Blair the United States was going ahead with the invasion of Iraq “come what may”, evidence heard at the official inquiry into the conflict suggested yesterday. Full Article at Press and Journal
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If necessary, the action should be military, and, again, if necessary and justified, it should involve regime change.
Tony Blair and the government made a decision. He has to stand by that decision.
I would still have thought it right to remove him.
Tony Blair said that unemployment in this country was finished but I'm afraid that myth's been disproven ... In credit crunch Britain we've got massive unemployment. In Salford alone we've got almost 42% youth unemployment, so we're standing up for their rights. The figures are still climbing with peopl...
I never refused a request for money to pay for arms and equipment during my time as Prime Minister.
If there is not a public session with the person who more than any relayed intelligence to the PM (prime minister Tony Blair at the time), the inquiry will be undermined
If there was any possibility that [Saddam Hussein] could develop weapons of mass destruction, we would stop him. It was my view then and that’s my view now.
Tony Blair deceived Parliament about the grounds for invading Iraq because he believed it was right to go to war, the inquiry into the conflict has heard. Former Cabinet minister Clare Short accused the ex-prime minister of ‘leaning on’ attorney general Lord Goldsmith to make him mislead the Government ...
We had to resolve this through the U.N. If we couldn't resolve it through U.N. inspectors, we had to resolve it by removing Saddam
Tony Blair was our prime minister, he did what he believed and still believes to be the right thing and I was a member of the government and stood by that then
How we did that was an open question and even at that stage I was raising the issue of going to the UN
It was not a decisionmaking body. I don't think there was ever a substantive discussion in Cabinet. If you ever raised an issue with Tony Blair he would cut it off. The machinery of government had broken down quite badly. But when you add secrecy and deceit, it's positively dangerous.
It would have been better to have corrected it in the light of the significance it later took on. It’s taken on far greater significance than it did at the time.
I noticed Tony Blair in his evidence to you kept saying, 'I had to decide, I had to decide'. And indeed that's how he behaved. But that is not meant to be our system of government. When you add secrecy and deceit, the system becomes positively dangerous.
There's not a single day that passes that I don't think about the decision I made. In the end it was divisive, and I'm sorry about that. I did my level best to bring people back together again.
I noticed Tony Blair in his evidence kept saying, 'I had to decide, I had to decide'. And indeed that's how he behaved. But that is not meant to be our system of government. When you add secrecy and deceit, the system becomes positively dangerous.
The decision I took — and frankly would take again — was, if there was any possibility that he could develop weapons of mass destruction, we would stop him ... It was my view then, and that is my view now.
He was appointed in June 2009 as a member of the British governments inquiry into the Iraq war (Headed by Sir John Chilcot). His appointment to this inquiry was criticised in parliament by William Hague, Claire Short, George Galloway, and Lynne Jones on the basis that Gilbert had once compared George W ...
I believed ... we were right not to run that risk
The main conclusion one comes out with when listening to Tony Blair, the previous British prime minister, respond to the questions of the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war is that the politician is determined to keep on lying and adamantly defending his catastrophic decision that dragged his country int...
I think he was a monster. I believe he threatened not just the region, but the world ... If I'm asked if I believe we are safer, more secure, that Iraq is better, that our own security is better with Saddam and his two sons out of power . . . then I believe indeed we are.
If Tony Blair is right and Iran does kick off and there's some kind of international force to be sent there, David Cameron as prime minister is really going to have to think hard... given what happened in Iraq
The crucial thing after September 11 is that the calculus of risk changed
I have supported the Labour party in the past but I feel incredibly disillusioned and let down, by Tony Blair in particular, since he took us into a war — which has cost so many lives — on a lie.
If there was any possibility that he could develop weapons of mass destruction, we should stop him. That was my view then; that's my view now.
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