(UK) Fresh calls for Iraq war inquiry

[sabra]

Source: BBC

The Conservatives have called again for a public inquiry into the "origins and conduct" of the war in Iraq.

Shadow foreign secretary William Hague told MPs that with UK troops likely to have left Iraq by the middle of 2009, a "full-scale" inquiry should follow.

A senior defence source has told the BBC UK forces could start pulling out in March while Gordon Brown has hinted at a near total withdrawal by mid-2009.

Labour has said an inquiry will be needed but only when troops have left.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7775779.stm

[defendandprotect]

1. Still some honesty in the world .....

[LeftishBrit]

5. Still some hypocrisy in the world too

Almost all these Tories voted for the war and supported it ardently for ages.

Now they're jumping on the bandwagon.

Nonetheless, an investigation is certainly needed.

[trollybob]

2. Origins and Conduct? I think I have a pretty good idea...

The American President decided to carry out a personal grudge against the President of Iraq and tricked the British PM into going along with him. While he was growing up, Bush kept hearing how his daddy should have finished the job in 1991 and taken out Sadaam Hussein. So he decided to take International Law into his own hands by invading Iraq, overthrowing its government, murdering the leader's two sons, and killing thousands of innocent people in the process. Need we say more?

[Nihil]

6. I think the word is "bribed" rather than "tricked" but apart from that you are pretty well correct.

There is a very faint outide possibility that it should be "threatened"
but I think "bribed" is by far the most likely.
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[Octafish]

3. Washington should do so, as well.

Should the inquiries find evidence of criminal negligence, war profiteering and lying the nations to war, those responsible need to be brought before justice.

[IndianaGreen]

4. Ministers under pressure to hold inquiry on Iraq war within a year

More information on OP by this Independent article:

Ministers under pressure to hold inquiry on Iraq war within a year

By Michael Savage, Political Correspondent
Thursday, 11 December 2008

The Government has come under renewed pressure from opposition parties and its own back benches to set a date for a long-awaited inquiry into the waging of war in Iraq. Both the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, have said they are in favour of holding an inquiry, but have delayed setting a date by claiming it would not be right to hold it while combat troops remained in Iraq.


Security sources have now revealed that the 4,100 British troops remaining in the country will be withdrawn by the second half of next year, heaping pressure on the Government to call an inquiry within the next 12 months.

MPs will be urged to sign a motion tabled by the Labour backbencher John McDonnell today, calling on the Government to keep its commitment. "The Government has no grounds now to put off an inquiry," he said. "Though there is a feeling that we need unity ahead of any general election, many of us want to press for the inquiry as it was a clear government commitment."

The Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, said: "Now that Brown's fig leaf of a major British operation is set to disappear, he has no excuse to delay any longer on holding a full public inquiry into how this foreign policy catastrophe happened." The Tories said they would hold an inquiry immediately if they won the election.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ministers-under-pressure-to-hold-inquiry-on-iraq-war-within-a-year-1061274.html