Perhaps We Are Now A Little Nearer To Learning Why Blair Took Us To War?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3195686/Families-Iraq-war-victims-launch-unprecedented-legal-challenge.html

[youngmafbog]

Yes, it's the 'sue' bit I am concerned with more.

[youngmafbog]

Anyone over 25 is unlikely to ever know the full truth. Much of the documentation will be top secret if only to protect those still 'out in the field' so at least 50 years before truth will out.

[Zacs-Master]

WARNING: PRETTY GRUESOME IMAGES

Whilst I have every sympathy with the bereaved families and disabled victims, soldiers sign up to serve Queen and Country without question. No one forced them to do it and they joined up in full knowledge that they would, in all probability, be put in harms way.

[youngmafbog]

Very true Zacs, it's not as if the British army has not had regular conflicts even.

[bazwillrun]

The inquiry is nothing but a whitewash, even more so thanks to large helpings of Maxwellisation....If anybody thinks anybody will be held to account or blamed or "taken to court" etc etc then they are living in cloud cuckoo land

[lindapalmara]

They didn't use the Maxwiellison rule in the Mid Staffs enquiry! Do t expect any truth in what will be left of this controversial enquiry. To many powerful people involved, especially Teflon Tony Blair!

[bazwillrun]

I bet the bloke with the redacting marker is getting plenty of overtime...

[Gromit]

They will not be able to sue. Chilcot has been given a wide remit, so he has to be thorough. That is not say the delay is acceptable.
But it should not be up to individuals to put pressure on the process to get this report out.

Parliament and the Prime Minister have been sadly complicit in keeping the report from being published.

And when it is, don't be srprised if large sections of it are redacted.

[andy-hughes]

Zacs-Master - //Whilst I have every sympathy with the bereaved families and disabled victims, soldiers sign up to serve Queen and Country without question. No one forced them to do it and they joined up in full knowledge that they would, in all probability, be put in harms way. //

I have always taken the position that soldiers are professional fighters, and going to war is effectively, doing their job.

But that said, I do believe that the bereaved families have the right to know if they lost their loved ones in a just and legal conflict, or if as increasingly appears to be the case - they were sent to their deaths by a government who was too quick and too keen to believe discredited intelligence information, and had no clear plan of what they were doing, going to do, or what would happen after they left the war zone.

The length of time and constant legal chicanery that is going on at further emotional and financial expense to the families and the tax payer increasingly appears to indicate that the outcome is not going to be good for any of those involved.

If, as advised, Sir John is an independent adjudicator in the enquiry, then why is he taking so long, and refusing assistance to speed things up?

It simply adds (literally) insult to injury that these families are left waiting for answers, while those involved have tefloned away into lucrative retirements without a care in the world.

[Peter Pedant]

It is the maxwellisation of the process that has added time
s/o is accused then he has a right of reply
and then the accuser had a right of rebuttal
and then the accused has a right of rejoinder
and then .... re-averral
leading onto a second rejoinder

and Lindie Loo - I think Staffs was anonymised with A - E
and the minister ordered the un-masking of the people who were behind the letters....

and yes at Staffs there was no one who was in the Lords ....
if