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Alex213
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Blair impeachment over Iraq urged
#5157371 - 01/09/06 03:07 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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Blair impeachment over Iraq urged Prime Minister Tony Blair should be impeached over the war in Iraq, a former top British soldier has said.
Former UN commander in Bosnia General Sir Michael Rose said Mr Blair had to take responsibility for his actions.
"To go to war on what turns out to be false grounds is something that no one should be allowed to walk away from," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
The consequences for Iraq and the war on terror had been "quite disastrous", General Sir Michael said.
"Certainly from a soldier's perspective there can't be any more serious decision taken by a prime minister than declaring war," he told the programme.
He said Mr Blair's actions were "somewhere in between" getting the politics wrong and acting illegally.
The consequences of that war have been quite disastrous both for the people of Iraq and also for the west in terms of our wider interests in the war against global terror
"The politics was wrong, that he rarely declared what his ultimate aims were, as far as we can see, in terms of harping continually on weapons of mass destruction when actually he probably had some other strategy in mind.
"And secondly, the consequences of that war have been quite disastrous both for the people of Iraq and also for the west in terms of our wider interests in the war against global terror."
The general said he believed MPs had endorsed the war because Mr Blair had stressed the argument about weapons of mass destruction.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4594216.stm
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looner2
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Re: Blair impeachment over Iraq urged [Re: Alex213]
#5157527 - 01/09/06 07:18 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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I don't see why Blair wasn't hung earlier. It is suprising to me that he survived this long. Britain needs to accept the fact that they need to make a decision between their U.S partnership and further European integration. I think it is quite clear they want Europe. I just wish they would hurry up and do it.
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Re: Blair impeachment over Iraq urged [Re: Alex213]
#5157561 - 01/09/06 08:04 AM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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Never gonna happen.
If he had any integrity he would have resigned long ago.
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Re: Blair impeachment over Iraq urged [Re: Revelation]
#5159784 - 01/09/06 07:53 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: Blair impeachment over Iraq urged [Re: Los_Pepes]
#5163110 - 01/10/06 03:12 PM (18 years, 3 months ago) |
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My god, what has the world come to? Bogus wars, corrupt officials, and now the BRITISH are making more sense than the americans. Of course Blair should be impeached as with Bush and tried on war crimes. The demand it of other countries, why should they not be held accountable?
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