Jack Straw tells Iraq inquiry he could have stopped Britain joining invasion

[kpete]

Source: Telegraph UK


Jack Straw tells Iraq inquiry he could have stopped Britain joining invasion

Jack Straw said he could have stopped Britain joining the invasion of Iraq if he had refused to back Tony Blair's decision to go to war in support of the United States.

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But Mr Straw, who is now the Justice Secretary, said he had never ''backed away'' from the choice that he made then and fully accepted the responsibilities that flowed from it.

''I was fully aware that my support for military action was critical,'' he said. ''If I had refused that, the UK's participation in the military action would not in practice have been possible.

''There almost certainly would have been no majority in either Cabinet or in the Commons.''


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[No Elephants]

1. Wouldn't want to do his laundry. Bloodstains are difficult to remove.

[Crowman1979]

2. If I could of, would of, should of don't mean s***!

[FiveGoodMen]

3. "fully accepted the responsibilities"

but not the consequences.

People were blown up, crushed in building collapses, burned with White Phosphorus, terrorized by troops, driven from their land.

None of that happened to Jack Straw, who "fully accepted the responsibilities".

[daleo]

4. He's the Straw that stirred the drink

A Bloody Mary.