Despite the Iraq Inquiry being a relatively pointless exercise in that it won’t hold anyone accountable, Sir John Chilcot finally got his Holiness the Rt. Rev. Tony Blair to face some questions today.
Everyone else that had faced the inquiry had blamed someone else. Was it John Scarlet’s fault? Alastair Campbell’s? The Man on the Moon?
I expected Blair to come out with the same stuff. Blame the Americans because you know the answer will be swift and extremely short if you ask to bring George W. Bush over to face questions.
It’s been pretty much confirmed by those being questioned that the statement about Saddam being able to launch WMD within 45 minutes was completely misleading, and that the evidence to support these claims was sexed up.
Blair disagreed that the situation was a Catch 22 “war or war” situation for Saddam, because had he said he didn’t have WMD we wouldn’t have believed him anyway. Blair insisted that co-operation with the weapons inspectors would have been enough.
But he admitted that the reason Iraq was invaded rather than North Korea or any other rogue state we actually know has WMD was because Saddam had used them in the past, and the worry was that he would sell them to terror organisations if he was able to make them again. So they hung him. Huzzah.
It’s all been rather pointless. He said he acted within his power, made a decision, and that was that. No agreements written in blood or anything. But even had he come out and said it was all a massive cover up and he did it for his own Iraq oil interests, what would happen?
In this toothless inquiry, nothing at all.
Its a waste of time, space and money, much like zanulabour.