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The Boy
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Username: The_boy
Post Number: 190
Registered: 02-2009
| | Posted on Saturday, January 23, 2010 - 11:37 am: | |
'In moments of idle fancy, one dreams that Tony Blair's appearance at the Chilcot inquiry next Friday might be like that. "Yes, of course I took the country into a needless and illegal war. I knew very well that the intelligence about Saddam Hussein's weaponry was limited, but George Bush was going to invade anyway and I wanted to be there, even if my Cabinet and the Labour MPs and the British people didn't. That was why I had to exaggerate the WMD claims so grossly."'
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/geoffrey-wheatcroft-ducking-di ving-and-denying-the-truth-1876426.html |
justa TPO
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Username: Justa_tpo
Post Number: 435
Registered: 06-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, January 16, 2010 - 09:33 pm: | |
(Plagarised from elsewhere).
CENTRAL London ground to a halt last night as thousands of motorists slowed down to gawp at the mangled wreckage of Alastair Campbell.
Traffic was queued around Parliament Square, up Whitehall and along the Strand, eventually causing tailbacks on the Holborn Viaduct, as Tony Blair's former spin doctor stood by every word of something that has been demonstrated, time and time again, to be comprehensively untrue.
Police used cones to establish a cordon around Mr Campbell as fire engines carrying psychiatric cutting equipment struggled to reach him through the gridlock.
Taxi driver Roy Hobbs said: "I didn't see any fire engines when I was stuck on Fleet Street. But even if they did exist, it would have taken them much longer than 45 minutes to get there."
And motorist Joanna Kramer insisted: "I don't think they could have done anything anyway. He was wedged really, really far inside this huge, twisted pile of demented bullshit."
Pedestrian Martin Bishop, who was forced to make his way home along Birdcage Walk, added: "The emergency services had arrived by the time I was walking past. I think I saw a psychiatrist standing over the wreckage, shaking his head and telling a fireman to cover it with a sheet of tarpaulin."
Eyewitness Tom Logan, a lawyer from Finsbury Park, said: "It was like it was in slow motion. All these words came tumbling out of the middle of his face and just went crashing headlong into this huge truck full of truth and sanity that was coming the other way.
"I hope no one was killed apart from 4000 troops and 100,000 Iraqi civilians."
Joanna Kramer added: "The police kept waving us on, but you know what it's like. When someone says they're proud of helping to start a massive war that was completely unnecessary, you try your hardest but you can't not look at it.
"I feel like such a ghoul." |
The Boy
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Username: The_boy
Post Number: 186
Registered: 02-2009
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - 11:00 am: | |
Justa, you're right that there will be little punishment, because as Gordon Brown has said, the Chilcot inquiry is not about "apportioning blame" - once it's over, Blair and Campbell will still have their freedom and Brown will say we can all move on.
Justice? |
Myob
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Username: Psiman
Post Number: 487
Registered: 07-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - 08:31 am: | |
The oath is an irrelavence. There is unlikely to be anything that can prove 'beyond reasonable doubt' that they are lying. Too much back covering has gone on.
As for your link, do you really want to support copyright infringement? Do you despise Bliar so much that you think it is reasonable to to steal his book? You hurt his pocket just as much by simply not buying it. |
justa TPO
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Username: Justa_tpo
Post Number: 432
Registered: 06-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 09:47 pm: | |
What you have to remember is that the inquiry is not held under oath. As such, there will be little punishement apart from a stain on his character when/if they find he is a lying little feck.
Which is unlikley to affect him (or any of his cronies).
I have a link in which you can download his book for free (The Bliar Years). Hit the fecker in his pocket where it will hurt him the most.
Let me know if you want it. |
The Boy
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Username: The_boy
Post Number: 185
Registered: 02-2009
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 04:59 pm: | |
‘Mr Campbell said Mr Blair "genuinely believed" Iraq's flouting of UN resolutions and pursuit of weapons of mass destruction needed to be dealt with and was not just following US policy.’
Israel has flouted more UN resolutions than any other country and has 200+ nuclear weapons – should Israel be attacked by the US and UK?
‘Asked about weapons of mass destruction, he said their suspected presence became such a "central issue" because of the sense of the "serious and credible threat" they posed to stability in the region.’
How can non-existent weapons be a "serious and credible threat"?
Alistair Campbell – blood on your hands.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8453116.stm |
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