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Titolo: Impeach Blair over Iraq - general

Impeach Blair over Iraq - general
Prime Minister Tony Blair should be "impeached" over the war in Iraq, a
former top British soldier has said.
The ex-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.
A Downing Street spokesman said Sir Michael was entitled to his view but
had been retired for some time.
"The government is entitled to point out that there have been three
democratic elections in Iraq," said the prime minister's official
spokesman.
In a Channel 4 television documentary, Iraq: The Failure Of War, General
Sir Michael tells former war correspondent and independent MP Martin Bell:
"Blair should be impeached."
The general told Today the consequences for Iraq and the war on terror had
been "quite disastrous".
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
General Sir Michael Rose
"Certainly from a soldier's perspective there can't be any more serious
decision taken by a prime minister than declaring war," he said.
He claimed Mr Blair's actions were "somewhere in between" getting the
politics wrong and acting illegally.
"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.
General Sir Michael said he would not have led troops into a war he
believed was wrong.
Commons motion
"You cannot put people in harm's way if you don't believe the cause is
right or sufficient," he said.
But he added it would be wrong to just walk away from Iraq now.
There have been four separate inquiries into different aspects of the Iraq
war, including the Butler report into intelligence failings and the Hutton
inquiry into the death of Dr David Kelly.
But there has yet to be an inquiry focusing on the way the government's
decision to join a US-led invasion was made.
This government, who are willing to lead us into a war, must also be
willing to take responsibility for those actions
Plaid Cymru MP for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, Adam Price
Last month, more than 100 MPs from across the Commons backed a call for an
inquiry by senior MPs into the handling of the Iraq war and its aftermath.
The motion, proposed by Plaid Cymru MP for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr,
Adam Price, called for a special committee of seven senior MPs to review
the decision-making process.
The committee would be members of the Privy Council and therefore able to
look at sensitive intelligence material.
On Monday, Mr Price said it was "essential a committee is established to
investigate the matter thoroughly".
"If a government is not held to account for its actions, then democracy
cannot be upheld.
"This government, who are willing to lead us into a war, must also be
willing to take responsibility for those actions."
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 programme.
E non sarebbe il solo, da mettere sotto processo. Ma per questa sanguinosa
pagliacciata, al solito, non pagherà nessuno: né Bush né Blair, e tanto meno
il bastardo de noantri, quello che ha "incassato" strisciando (beh, così -
come dice Grillo - non inciampa) anche l'assassinio di Calipari. Puah.
Namib