Whatever happened to the Chilcot Debate?

[Denzil_DC]

You know, those two days of Parliamentary debate to follow up the long-awaited Chilcot Report's release?

Well, it was obviously overshadowed in the media by the turmoil among our political parties. But it did happen, on Wednesday and Thursday.

Links to Hansard reports and televised proceedings here:

Debate on the report of the Iraq Inquiry

http://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2016/july/debate-on-the-report-of-the-iraq-inquiry/

If you're interested, I think you'll have to pick the bones out of it yourself, because I've been unable to find anyone in the media who has.

Unless you know different ...

[Denzil_DC]

1. My quest continues.

Found a piece in Scottish paper The National:

Military chiefs lacked ‘courage’ dealing with Blair, says MP Johnny Mercer

MILITARY chiefs failed to “stand up” to Tony Blair’s government over the Iraq war, a former soldier told the House of Commons yesterday.

Tory MP Johnny Mercer, who served in Afghanistan, said the conflict to topple Saddam Hussein had led to a “deep sense of mistrust” of senior officers by a generation of soldiers.

Mercer, who was newly-graduated at the time of the 2003 vote, said “basic moral courage” and the ability to “stand up for your men in the face of a seemingly unstoppable sequence of events” was instilled in new recruits and advocated at all levels in the military.

However, he said a failure to do this had led to failings identified in the Chilcot Report including equipment shortages which cost service personnel their lives.

http://www.thenational.scot/news/military-chiefs-lacked-courage-dealing-with-blair-says-mp-johnny-mercer.20015