following your thread ED, Just what will the Chilcot enquiry achieve ?

[Bobbisox]

Having watched various key players retract their belief on the legality of the war with Iraq, I think the whole debacle is a huge waste of tax payers money,
If it is found it was illegal to attack another country on the premise of finding WMD which they did not, who will stand trial for war crimes?
Not Blair or Bush or either of the Foreign secretaries at the time, basically they wanted a regime change...end of !
So what is the point of this enquiry when no one will be found guilty and would have to be tried at the Haig ?
Everyone now sees there was no justification for the war on Iraq, OK Saddam Hussein was a despot and was evil, but he had also been aided from the USA against Iran, but that is another topic entirely.
A total waste of money with no end solution !

[jake-the-peg]

It shouls stop all the conspiracy theorists going on about a "cover up"

[Bobbisox]

Yes I suppose it would, but what a costly way of doing it, much easier if those concerned were to come out and say. Hands up, it was a regime change we were after, nothing more

[Bobbisox]

I think maybe you are right in that assumption vibes,and when Israel sneezes the Americans catch cold, just as when America does it, we catch cold !

[rov1200]

All the staff at the Foreign Office believed the war to be illegal. They even said so at the time. Jack Straw the greaser told the Chilcot enquiry he did not believe in military action but Blair being a different person decided otherwise. Yet we are told that Straw rubbished the Foreign Ofiice's advice.

We may as well put our Foreign Office into mothballs if politicians ignore every thing they say. We are not talking about one expert scientist who gave his views on Cannabis. And to cap it all to go to the US for advice who were intending regime change anyway.

All the politicians have done is for the public to have even less confidence in them. Following on from the expenses scandal its time we had a different way of making important decisions. It should not be left to politicians who may it seems have a vested interest in their own financial outcomes.

[BertiWooster]

The answer to your question , is absolutely nothing - total waste of tax payers money

This is an enquiry for enquiry's sake

[Bobbisox]

Steve I absolutley agree with you there, these players should stand trial for war crimes, the war in Iraq cost 1000s of lives on all sides, and for what end ?
Bobbi ♥

[Bobbisox]

Putting it in another context,
How many of you would like to see Bush and Blair satnd trial for crimes against humanity?
I would !

[jake-the-peg]

I think you ought to understand what Crimes against Humanity means before asking that someone be prosecuted for it

http://en.wikipedia.o...rime_against_humanity

'Murder; extermination; torture; rape and political, racial, or religious persecution and other inhumane acts reach the threshold of crimes against humanity only if they are part of a widespread or systematic practice'

Starting a war without the approval of the UN is not grounds

You'd have to show something like a deliberate policy of attacking civillians or at least wreckless disregard for their safety on a systematic basis

[Bobbisox]

point taken jtp, but as I don't really go to libraries and do my homework on these things
how about
for unlawful aggression to another sovereign state then ?

[rov1200]

The best quote I have heard is
"Would a war be declared illegal if a country other than the UK or the US had sanctioned it" or does 'might mean right'