IRAQ INQUIRY WILL BE A LONG-WINDED CHARADE

"All we really need is to hear four questions asked and ruthlessly truthful answers given. Permit me to offer both.

1. Did Tony Blair, on March 18, 2003, in a brilliant but now infamous speech at the despatch Box in the house of Commons, secure from an originally unwilling house a mandate to invade Iraq? Answer: Yes, he did. It is all in Hansard for that day and verbatim.

2. Did he, in order to secure that vote, tell the house on oath that he had personally seen comprehensive and convincing evidence that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction which were a threat to us all? Answer: Yes he did indeed and that is also in Hansard.

3. Given that there was only one man in the kingdom who could conceivably show that evidence to his Prime Minister, had the chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, Sir Richard Dearlove, truly shown him that evidence? Answer: NO, he had not because no such evidence existed nor ever had.
Sir Richard does not tell lies. he has already told the Butler Inquiry the same as the above. (Why oh why did the media not notice that devastating testimony in the Butler Report?)
Sir Richard may yet repeat this to the Chilcot Inquiry, even if it is wrapped in the usual mandarinese euphe- misms and concessive clauses.

4. Given that if the above is true – and it is – did Tony Blair lie to the house to secure his mandate? Answer: Yes he emphatically did.

The trouble is the Establishment will dance round a disagreeable truth like Morris dancers on amphetamines but never tackle it. The fact is you never, ever, send men to war on the basis of a whim, a rumour or a single, one-source, unconfirmable allegation. Blair did all three. (The single source, an Iraqi defector code- named Curveball, turned out to be a complete liar.)"

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