Gordon Brown 'to set a date' for Iraq War inquiry

[sabra]

Source: Mirror UK

Gordon Brown will this week reveal details of the long-awaited inquiry into the Iraq War.

Downing Street is looking at who will head the inquiry and what it will consider.

A senior source said: "It has always been a question of when, and not if, as far as the Prime Minister was concerned."

It is part of the "fightback" to reassert his political authority and appease critics on Labour's backbenches.

Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/06/08/pm-to-set-a-date-for-iraq-probe-115875-21423764/

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. "verdict ... not known until after the election"

So that's useless, then. This is straight out of 'Yes, Minister'.

[SkyDaddy7]

3. You appear to know more about this...

Can you tell me if it is just political posturing by Brown or is this fo real?

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. The 'not until after the election' was from the article

and, since Labour is certain to lose the election, the remaining politicians who had some influence in the decision to go to war (ie Brown himself, and Jack Straw, then Foreign Secretary, now Justice Secretary) will be out of power. So this won't give anyone a chance to punish them politically. And there's no chance of this producing prosecutions or similar - that never happens with government enquiries.

So I think it's just posturing. The worst it will do is make writing his memoirs a bit more awkward.

[SkyDaddy7]

2. Yes...The more inquiries the better!!

[Amonester]

4. "what it will consider"

I bet the Downing Street Memo will not even be "considered" or WOULD it?? :shrug:

Too much "war crime" exibit. :grr: