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Charge Blair with contempt of Parliament – only then will we know if he lied over Iraq: An explosive proposal from former foreign secretary…
Letters: Tony Blair has questionst o answer on the Iraq war
The embers of one war can spark the flames of another.
There can be no doubt that the 2003 Iraq War and the insurgency that followed has been an important contributor to the civil war devastating Syria – a reason, if another was needed, to forensically examine Tony Blair’s actions of more than a decade ago.
Democratic politics make great demands on a Prime Minister in time of war.
However, there is nothing more corrosive to their reputation than the accusation that they have lied to the House of Commons – as Anthony Eden did over the Suez Crisis in 1956.
Blair is increasingly believed to have done the same over Iraq. The former Prime Minister denies it, of course, and remains unashamedly active on the political stage.
According to reports yesterday, he is angling for a Brussels position which would give him a ‘pan-European role’ campaigning against Euroscepticism, which sounds suspiciously like a disguised bid to become the next president of the European Council.
Sir John Chilcot’s Iraq Inquiry was expected to report in 2010. But since then, he has been locked in a dispute with Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood over which Government documents could be released as part of his final report.
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/06/charge-blair-with-contempt-of-parliament-only-then-will-we-know-if-he-lied-over-iraq-an-explosive-proposal-from-former-foreign-secretary-david-owen-as-crucial-evidence-from-chilcot-inquiry-is-censo/
