Iraq inquiry’s a whitewash
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With it, I’m sure we would never have got involved in the Iraq War of 2003.
And if we hadn’t, more than 150,000 people, including 179 of our own military personnel, wouldn’t have died.
Almost ten billion pounds that we didn’t have could have been saved, plus the interest we’ve paid on it over 12 years.
But it’s nothing compared to the cost to Iraq and its people.
Without the war it would not now be the hell-hole that it is, and certainly wouldn’t be partly controlled by ISIS. Without doubt, the world would be a safer place.
The Chilcot inquiry was set up to examine Britain’s involvement in Iraq, including the way decisions were made and actions taken, and was probably the most vital investigation this country has ever undertaken.
So the fact it has taken six years to complete is a downright scandal.
The last witness gave evidence in 2011, FOUR YEARS AGO.
What could possibly be holding it up? Nobody has explained.
All we know is it won’t be published until after the general election. Why? It’s not good enough. And the more it’s held up without good reason, the more it stinks.
It’s worse still for the families who need to know why their loved ones died. So many I REALLY enjoyed watching the annual backslapping on the National Television Awards.
Mainly because I didn’t have to be there. When I did, back in the days when Loose Women used to make the shortlist, and actually won in 2010, I used to dread it.
The traffic, the nightmare of getting a taxi home, the cold, the red carpet where coats aren’t allowed, having to say “you look lovely” to someone in a frightful frock, the after-party scrum, the lack of booze questions to be answered.
But will they be? Of course not. Will anyone be held responsible? Of course not. Will anyone pay? Of course not.
All we’ll hear is “lessons will be learned”. But that won’t happen either. Because we already know it’ll be another whitewash.
We know the letters between Tony Blair and George Bush have been redacted.
What we don’t know is why. Or what’s the point in publishing them at all if they are not uncensored.
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during the overly lengthy ceremony. I could go on. But this year there were some truly shocking moments.
Celebrities had to get the Tube because of the traffic!
And one of the nominees, mentioning no names, showed genuine and undisguised rage at not winning (Jeremy Kyle).
So refreshing among all the thinly disguised contempt of other bad losers. But the biggest shocker was Benidorm losing out to Mrs Brown’s Boys. Sorry, I just don’t get that.
We know too that witnesses have been informed of the draft conclusions, to which they have a right to prepare a response in case they don’t like what it says about them. How can that portray the truth?
We know the truth. We know we went to war on a false premise. We know there were no weapons of mass destruction.
We know the war was illegal. And we know who, ultimately was responsible.
But where are they? Both sitting pretty, in total shameless denial, on their mountains of money and self-righteousness.
So if they’re not paying now, no inquiry will force them to whenever it’s published. Which is almost as depressing and as wrong as the war itself.