Watching Chilcot live on BBC

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A Scathing condemnation of their lack of judgement

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2016/jul/06/chilcot-report-live-inquiry-war-iraq

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1. Blair wrote to Bush

'with you whatever'

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Findings at a glance

(I think this is from one of the journalists who saw the report a couple of hours early in a locked room):

The UK chose to join the invasion of Iraq before the peaceful options for disarmament had been exhausted. Military action at that time was not a last resort.
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Policy on Iraq was made on the basis of flawed intelligence assessments. It was not challenged, and should have been.
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Despite explicit warnings, the consequences of the invasion were underestimated. The planning and preparations for Iraq after Saddam Hussein were "wholly inadequate".

The circumstances in which it was decided that there was a legal basis for UK military action were "far from satisfactory".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36721645

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3. No military threat from Iraq in 2003

I don't want lessons - I want Bush, Blair et al tried for war crimes.

Blair overestimated his influence over the US in Iraq.

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4. Not carried live in the US

I'm shocked I tell you...shocked!

[Scientific]

7. MSM, Inc covers up. Systematic betrayal of the American and British people

The 24-hour "news" channels (Fox, CNN, MSNBC, etc.) should be all over this. The fact that they are not speaks volumes.

"When someone shows you who you are, believe them." - Ye Olde Wisdom of the Ages

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8. The mother of one of those killed just called Blair the world's worst

terrorist. I think he has company with Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al - they are all terrorists

[nationalize the fed]

5. Tony Blair's 2014 Christmas Card

This is what he and his wife actually sent out. No photoshop.



This is a man who sold his soul and is beginning to understand what that means

"Menacingly odd", "fabulously awkward", "terrifying" and plain "creepy" - just some of the reactions to the Christmas card sent this year by Tony and Cherie Blair, notes Ben Milne.

It's set up to look like a domestic scene of an elder statesman and his devoted wife. But there's no getting around it - the former prime minister looks perturbed, even angry, according to dozens of tweeters. His teeth are bared and his eyes appear to be downright fierce, they suggest. "Perhaps the oddest thing about Tony Blair's threatening Christmas card is that this must have been the BEST photo..." tweets one observer. "The strange thing about Tony Blair's Christmas card is how the teeth seem to follow you round the room." "Be afraid. Be very afraid," write others. http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-30289820

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6. I remember that

it spoke and speaks volumes

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9. Corbyn addressing the House now

A rational approach - scathing condemnation of Blair et al - a catastrophe

[eShirl]

10. "how the teeth follow you around the room"