That’s why George, Dick, and Don should be tried and executed as War Criminals.
Ooh, a scathing whitewash.
Some of Blair’s pre-war letters to the president are published in Chilcot’s report, but not Bush’s replies.
This is so the UK government will not at some future point be forced to declare Bush a person who is to be tried for war crimes.
Cheney will wake up and say “Go f*ck yourself” to Chilcot.
The 2.6-million-word report is an exhaustive verdict on a divisive conflict that —
I imagine the word “bloody” - in both contexts - came up quite often.
And of course there is this…you hardly need 2.6 million words to spell it out: How the Bush administration sold the war – and we bought it | Valerie Plame Wilson and Joe Wilson | The Guardian
In sum, we are left to believe that a significant part of President Bush’s case for war was based on intelligence that neither he nor his intelligence officials had even seen. The declassification of several documents in recent years, and a US Senate investigation report published in 2008 conclude that there was far closer collusion between the Bush and Blair administrations than the Straw testimony suggests. Yet, the British government to this day continues to stand behind its “separate intelligence” – which it has yet to make public.
The Powell address to the UN and the Niger-Iraq saga are but two examples of the efforts of the Bush administration to manipulate intelligence to support its political objectives and the lengths to which it went to secure support for its war. As former White House press secretary Scott McClellan put it:
> “Bush and his White House were engaging in a carefully orchestrated campaign to shape and manipulate sources of public approval to our advantage.”
Wasn’t it Karl Rove who boasted that the Bush Administration “created its own reality”?
Wonder if dick’n’dubya are experiencing butt pucker? Wonder , too, if dickand his spawn are laying (lying) low because of the report?
Yawn. It’s old news in the larger context and will, sadly, amount to nothing but the further sullying of the reputation of a man that no one any longer takes seriously. As with Shrub, Cheney, Rice, Wolfowitz, etc., etc, Blair will not be tried for anything.
The point of history is to avoid repeating the crap in it.
“Al Gore said he invented the internet”…Bush gets elected. We got the Iraq war the minute Bush was declared the winner that November. That was going to happen.
" HRC lied to the American people about Benghazi"…might lead to a Trump win.
After Brexit the UK is in political chaos…perhaps there’s a Tony Blair waiting to arise from that chaos and hook up with a nutcase American President Trump.
So far it’s going down by the numbers.
I happened to be in the UK at the time of the vote. A lot of “buyer’s remorse” on the part of probably 10-15% of those who voted to leave. A lot of political roiling with Corbyn taking the brunt of it from the Blairite members of Labour, in spite of the fact that his vote as party leader was about as close as one gets to a mandate in contemporary politics. As a friend their said, Cameron bailing was politically shrewd - “Who wants to drink from the poisoned chalice” that the vote represents? Even Farrage bailed. Not that he ever had a chance of being elected anything anyway.
That being said, the vote was advisory, not binding. Parliament has a few months to sort this out and could very well choose not to move forward with leaving knowing that doing so could very well be the end of the United Kingdom as Scotland will surely hold a second independence vote and N. Ireland may choose to reunite with the Republic so it can stay in the EU.