Ex-minister says UK Cabinet was "misled" about legality of Iraq war

What is there to add? Well not just CS but parliament was deceived by Blair, whereas the rest of the country was not so easily fooled by the great deceiver and his blindingly obvious exagerations and distortions. And these MPs are the gullible fools who tell us at every opportunity that affairs of state, legislation and international treaties are far too complex for the average person to understand.

Well it ain't rocket science to know when someone is lying as Blair clearly was in his desperation to have a winable war on his watch. It is not as though Blair had no form as a liar. What were the Tories thinking of when they voted in favour? It is beyond belief they were so easily duped.

What annoyed me even more was the disgusting behaviour of the Labour Party MPs, when it finally dawned on them that Blair had taken them for the idiots they clearly are. Our country was in the international spotlight for all the wrong reasons, facing justified and heavy criticism from all sides, because of their stupidity. What did these wonderful Labour MPs, supposedly people of principle do about it? Absolutely ****** all. With an election round the corner their principles were conveniently flushed down the toilet. They held their noses and allowed the warmongering ******* to continue abusing them, and us, for another 4 years. They should have thrown him out immediately and regained some of their respectability in that way. As Claire Short has and Robin Cook did before his death.

This is not to mention the massive under resourcing of the task in Iraq, and the resulting debacle of Afganistan. Again, it's not rocket science to know you cannot subdue small regions let alone countries the size of this with a measly 10,000 troops. Blair, Brown and our once great parliament have combined to make Britain a laughing stock around the world, and in doing so have created a small army of terrorist volunteers seeking revenge.

UKIP as ever missed this great opportunity to advance themselves, as they have with all important events happening in the real world in the last 10 years.

If ever there was an argument to make Parliament accountable to the people for their actions via Direct Democracy, surely this is it.

At last - this woman is good for something - IE spilling the beans....

The problem is that with so many conflicting stories, I'm sure the report from this commission will be a fumbled apology for a clearcut definition on responsibility

What brought it home to me was the 45 minute claim because I thought to myself we have deployed thousands of tons of bombs in the first Gulf war, we have bombed the country on a weekly basis for years, we deployed more bombs than the first war when the weapons inspectors were kicked out after seven years, we have had satellites monitoring the country for years and on top of all that we had ten years of sanctions,so assuming they were bombing strategic weapons sites I could only assume if they did have these weapons they must be underground.
As an engineer I found it totally implausible that it would be possible to get these weapons from an undetected underground site and relocate to a site armed and ready to fire in 45 minutes.

I'm amazed how the people of this country (England), always fall for the good cop bad cop routine of the 2 - 3 major political party's. And to be honest with you.., the UKIP lot really pxss me off, by trying to blame Europe for everything that, that butch of white ******-Nazi's in the Wiemar republic of Westminster put this country through. What the people of this country needs, is to smash the 4th Reich's Axis Power of Evil that is the bond between the USA, UK & Israel, AKA the Warmongers Club. The next big conflict was already penciled in for 2011 or thereabouts, before Obama was elected. His will be the 5th assassination in the US's history, mind you, what can you expect from a country who's largest ethnic group (25%) are Lutheran Protestant Christian, the same bunch England have had on the thrown for 300 yrs, come 2014. Because if you didn't know, it was in 1714 when the anti-Catholic Conservatives requested the English hating German (Hanoverian) George I, to take over the country. So who needs enemies when you've got anti English politicians & royalty running the country. How I feel for all the 2000 years of slavery & suffering our ancestors went through. What a disgraceful waste of life has been lost by predominately English

It's obvious how more wars are planned for the future, because of all the planning for more military hardware. What an insult it is to the nation in these times of recession.