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these inquiries into the Iraq war are getting like the Bloody Sunday inquiry, various guises of which have been running since the dawn of time (35 years). We've had hutton, Butler and now Chilcot (who was on the Butler team)

they are not intended to reach a finding that the public find credible, they exist to provide a  smokescreen for a few years to cover the establishment for a few years in the hope everyone forgets about it.

If that fails, they have another inquiry. in the meantime Jack Straw will continue to claim all have been found not guilty and Alistaer Campbell will insist with staring eye and throbbing vein that the dodgy dossier was the truth the whole truth and nothing like but the truth.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Nov 24th, 2009 at 04:29:57 PM EST
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it maybe another whitewash but it still far cry from Indian commissions. Toothless, expensive and utterly useless.

for example right now in India nobody noticed Manmohan's state visit to White House. Why? Another scandal hit political life when Manmohan's plane was descending in Washington. Indian Express on Monday morning leaked results of so-called Liberhan commission which costed 8 crores to the exchequer, lasted record 17 years. Justice Liberhan was investigating causes of Babri Masjid demolition by hordes of Hindu fanatics in December 1992. Of course after recieving from successive governments at least 80 prolongations a mountain produced a mouse. majority of people Liberhan is indicting simply passed away or retired from public service.

by FarEasterner on Wed Nov 25th, 2009 at 09:08:22 AM EST
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