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mr blur Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-12-09 02:15 AM
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Tony Blair admits: I would have invaded Iraq anyway
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Hopeless Romantic Donating Member (495 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-12-09 06:05 AM
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-12-09 08:39 AM
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T_i_B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-15-09 07:58 AM
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3. This line struck me
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"I mean obviously you would have had to use and deploy different arguments about the nature of the threat."

In other words any old lie would have done. :grr:

The key thing here is that Britain went to war essentially because the prime minister of the day felt like having a war and the political classes in Britain were either unable or unwilling to hold the prime minister to account. The key question now is how to reform things so that in future our leaders will have to answer for their actions. Things were made far too easy for Blair by a careerist-stuffed parliament more interested in serving themselves and their whips rather then their own constituents.
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-15-09 11:21 AM
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4. In times like these, you need Steve Bell's take:
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