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Don't we already know how the runup to the Iraq invasion happened? The only point of such a commission would be to make it official. What's the point of making it secret? To leak it??

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Mon Jun 15th, 2009 at 04:50:32 PM EST
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[Ahem]

After the [cough] full investigation we're pleased to report [slightly strained smile] that there were no irregularities in the run up to the war [shuffle, shuffle] and that parliament was kept fully informed in every applicable way. [paper rustles, ambient coughing, cameras clicking]

I'd like to thank my colleagues [etc, etc...]

You were expecting democracy?

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Mon Jun 15th, 2009 at 05:00:17 PM EST
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If you ask questions in public, you might actually have to answer them.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Jun 15th, 2009 at 05:26:43 PM EST
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No, we don't know how the run up to Iraq happened. Or rather, the official version the labour party has stuck to until recently has become increasingly discredited and it certainly cannot bring itself to admit to the version that most people believe.

So there will be a new "inquiry" that will ask irrelevant questions and deliberate for long enough insecret to allow the next election to be conducted without embarrasing questions. Of course the final result, like the Franks, Butler & Hutton inquiries before it, will come up with an answer that is entirely consistent with the status quo.

But that's what these inquiries are for, to kick difficult questions into long grass in th future and then, lo and behold.. confirm what the original govt wanted you to believe in the first place, move along nothing to see here. No govt has ever commissioned an inquiry that might come back and report that they were wrong or lying. And no inquiry would ever do that cos it would be a career limiting decision.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Jun 16th, 2009 at 03:46:46 AM EST
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