Father Challenges Blair to Debate Iraq War

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The father of a soldier killed in Iraq will today issue a challenge to Prime Minister Tony Blair to debate the war with him in public. Reg Keys, whose lance-corporal son Tom died in action aged 20, is standing as an independent candidate against Mr Blair in his Sedgefield constituency in the May 5 General Election.

He is today planning to deliver a letter to Mr Blair’s home in the constituency, inviting him to discuss the legitimacy of the war with him “in a public forum, chaired by a mutually agreed person”. “The Iraq issue will not go away,” says Mr Keys in his letter. “Such a catastrophic political blunder cannot merely be put to one side.

“Eighty-five British soldiers have returned home in coffins, hundreds are severely wounded and mentally traumatised, and all this was based on false information for which nobody has been made accountable, including Blair.” He will be accompanied in delivering the letter by Martin Bell, former Independent MP for Tatton.

Mr Bell said: “If Tom Keys had been killed by enemy action in a just and legitimate war, his father would have grieved, but he would have accepted it. “But the weapons of mass destruction turned out not to exist and the war not to have been legitimate, and Reg Keys is seeking personal accountability from Blair.”

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[tuvor]

1. Tilting at windmills, but I'd do the same if I were in his shoes.

Of course, I'd love to be proven wrong.

[LynnTheDem]

2. 85 Brits killed, and the UK has already had a NATIONAL MEMORIAL SERIVCE

USA, going on 1600 dead...and NOTHING.