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No guilty person will go to prison, no guilty entity will be punished.

It will be lots of talk and false contrition for naught.
 
Everyone was just swept up in a haze of official misinformation and a compliant media.

Very few people, and even fewer in power, stopped to ask what Iraq had to do do with a terrorist attack committed mainly by Saudis operating under the directions of a Saudi being harboured by Afghanistan.
 
Kidd Vicious said:
Everyone was just swept up in a haze of official misinformation and a compliant media.

Very few people, and even fewer in power, stopped to ask what Iraq had to do do with a terrorist attack committed mainly by Saudis operating under the directions of a Saudi being harboured by Afghanistan.
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The people who couldn't see that invading Iraq was a bad idea at the time need to seriously question their ability to asses information objectively.
 
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We all knew it was bullshit at the time, but lifting the justification for war from a mediocre action movie really takes the cake.

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Kidd Vicious said:
Everyone was just swept up in a haze of official misinformation and a compliant media.

Very few people, and even fewer in power, stopped to ask what Iraq had to do do with a terrorist attack committed mainly by Saudis operating under the directions of a Saudi being harboured by Afghanistan.
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Disagree, plenty of people disagreed with the case for war in the months and weeks leading up to it, there were protests in England, I know that I opposed it and so did many of my friends. The whole thing stunk from the beginning and that's why people should be punished but, as mentioned above, no one will actually go to prison for it.
 
Bishop, the dog, still defending Australia's role in it. That war got me back into politics, post Apartheid I'd gotten pretty cruisy in my 20s, but when this came along you couldn't sit back, and watch something so obviously wrong happen.
 

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I liked this out of the Graun

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/05/tony-blair-iraq-war-chilcot

Here was a pragmatic leader who had always navigated a third way around challenges, who had built up a broad base of support and consistently reminded his party that nothing could be done without winning elections. Was he willing to blow everything on the basis of a suddenly acquired passion for Iraq and the Middle East? This also makes no sense.

The answer to the mystery is rooted in a political context, one ignored by previous investigations and one that will almost certainly be underplayed by Chilcot. The first part of the answer is to ask the right question. It is not the one that misleadingly opens this column. Blair never had to answer the question: should the UK invade Iraq? He had to answer a different one: should I support President Bush who has decided he wants to remove Saddam Hussein?

US presidents did not approve of 1980s Labour. New Labour would be close to US presidents. At the start of his second term in 2001, before the attacks on September 11, Blair told visitors to No 10 that one of his second-term objectives was to prove that a Labour prime minister could work with a Republican president of the US. Brought up on defeat he was neurotically worried that the Conservatives were forming close ties with Republicans in Washington. In his conviction that New Labour must be different he moved towards his doom.
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rodney hoo said:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/15/1044927854372.html

100,000 in Sydney marched against it, polls were high percentages against it.
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Those that supported it as pollies and the media have definitely pushed the idea that it was made with the best info they had on hand at the time and that they couldn't have known it was a mistake, they've tried to whitewash out the fact so many protested and knew it was a bad idea.

Hopefully this report helps make sure history doesn't forget
 
Listening to it now, he's so full of shit. Again coming back to intelligence reports that they did possess WMD, and that was the best info at the time, and can't judge that in hindsight. Just ignoring all the people at the time who were calling bullshit on that report at the time.
 

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Happy Mastenator said:
Listening to it now, he's so full of shit. Again coming back to intelligence reports that they did possess WMD, and that was the best info at the time, and can't judge that in hindsight. Just ignoring all the people at the time who were calling bullshit on that report at the time.
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Andrew Wilke was an intelligence agent and in my memory of the time got shown the door because he called it bull shit.

The amount of lives, the billions of $$$$$$$$, the terrorist elements to the world now, the poor people that are still trying to find stability to their family lives, the refugees, etc, all so John Winston Howard could be a war time prime minister like Menzies, Thatcher, it's ------------------- I just don't have the words to describe my feelings. :'(:'(:'(:mad::mad::mad:.
 
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Hahahaha, he's saying that the Iraq war hasn't lead to the instability in the middle east now. Basically saying if they'd just kept a massive amount of troops in the Iraq post surge things would have been fine. I think he's senile?
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He's not senile, he's a lying campaigner.
 

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