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Tony Blair War Inquiry

A simple question could be would I have invaded Iraq if I had been the PM at the time?

Well I was not the Prime Minister at the time but first I would have explored all possible means of finding an effective solution with out an invasion. With technology and intelligence there are many ways that a satisfactory result could have been achieved with out such a loss of life.

If I had unfortunately drawn the conclusion that there was absolutely no alternative I would have to be totally satisfied that what ever we were planning was not in anyway considered to be illegal.

Then, of course, any prudent Goverment would want to make sure that all the required planning and preparation had been carried out before committing soldiers to an invasion.

Clearly careful planning would mean that you would require a war budget from the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Simply because we were entering unknown teritory and we would not know for what time period we would be committed for and at what cost as there was more than enough time to budget properly.

Rather strangely the then Chancellor Gordon Brown doesn't seem to have either been kept informed or failed to find out what was happening. It could be, however, that Blair in his dictator style wanted to keep Gordon Brown in the dark.

Why wasn't the Chancellor of the Exchequer involved in financial preparation for a war surely a budget would be needed ?

This is a typical example of how the Labour government failed the British Army and the public.

Before the Chilcott enquiry on Friday 21st January 2011 Blair glibly stated that Margaret Thatcher did not have the Chancellor in her Falklands War cabinet. Clearly there can be no comparison as the Falklands was a quick response to an invasion with no real time for drawing up a war budget and with no intention for a long drawn out compaign.

This just proves the point that Blair and the Labour administration failed in their duty to protect the brave soldiers that they were committing to the war.

I do not intend to set out in this article each and every failing of Labour's failed war, as that would take a few books, but some of the failings were:-

Lack of proper equipment and armoured vehicles suitable for the operating conditions. Not enough helicopters with winches suitable for air lifting wounded soldiers. Last but not least what was the exit plan or did Tony Blair not have one or had he not even thought of one?

Lets be quite frank that if a Government goes to war with out an exit plan then they are committing brave British soldiers and the tax payer to pay for their badly planned war.

Apart from equipment issues Blair should have listened very carefully to the late Robin Cook who resigned from the government on 17th March 2003. The words that he used to introduce his resignation speech in the House of Commons say a lot " I have chosen to address the House first on why I cannot support a war without international agreement or domestic support".

"An extract from what he said is "The US can afford to go it alone, but Britain is not a superpower. Our interests are best protected not by unilateral action but by multilateral agreement and a world order governed by rules." that sounds like very good policy to me.

Obviously the Labour leadership chose to ignore sound advice and not follow the rules.

Some eight years after the invasion of Iraq Tony Blair told the Chilcot enquiry "I regret deeply and profoundly the loss of life".

The tearful relatives of some of the 179 soldiers who paid the ultimate sacrifice shouted out "it's too late" turned away from Blair and marched out.

The Chilcot inquiry released details of a memo from Tony Blair in March 2002 a year before the invasion in which he demanded a more "gung ho" approach.

Who did he think he was Bruce Lee?

At the end of Blairs testimony on 21st January 2011 at the Chilcot inquiry he was approached by Reg Keys the father of Lance Cpl Tom Keys who died in Southern Iraq aged 20 in June 2003. He said "I just wanted to say that you are a disgrace to your office".

Reg Keys stood in the 2005 General Election as an anti-war independent candidate for MP of Sedgefield a seat which was held by the then PM Tony Blair.He gave a very good speech and challenged Blair to confirm how many of our brave troops had died in Iraq. Blair was somewhat embarrased as he had no idea.

In summary the conclusion has to be that one could never ever vote for Labour as they have lost the faith of the voter.

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And what is their nickname for it? Or a slogan?

that is easy just take WW2

Congress expected the British to Fall in 1940

so to enter the War they Funded could have cost them Billions if the British Lost

and once the UK was Winning as in the Battle of Britain and the UK was safe from Invasion

in Sept 1940 in June 1941 the USA approved lend lease the worlds Biggest Money spinner

and Good Business start a war by funding Hitler and the NAZIS then make your allies along with you to pay to defeat them

But the Germans were still being supplied by the USA On credit because they were Going to war with the Bolsheviks which was what Wall st and Corporate USA were Paying for

SKF of Philadelphia supplied the NAZIS with 90 % of their Production up to 1945

and made Millions in Clear Profit

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