Evidence against Blair the war criminal mounts up

The Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war has revealed yet more proof that Tony Blair lied to the British public, the house of commons and the press in the run up to, during and after the Iraq war when he denied knowledge that the war was illegal he had been expressly told just that by the Attorney general Lord Goldsmith.

The enquiry is set to press the ex prime minister over this “smoking gun” memo which warned him a whole 8 months before the war started that the planned regime change in Iraq broke international law and therefore any war would be illegal.

The memo which Goldsmith had hoped would convince Blair to call off his plans for war was ignored and he was instead gagged and prevented from attending cabinet meetings. Blair also ordered a cover up to prevent the details of this memo from coming to the attention of the public.

Apparently Lord Goldsmith threatened to resign over his treatment and the stress of being bullied into silence by Blair’s apparatchiks, which included Lord Falconer and Baroness Morgan, caused him to lose over 2 stone in weight.

Blair was so intent on preventing the public from finding out about this legal advice and his refusal to obey it that he concealed it from his own cabinet fearing that it would cause an anti-war walk out. In fact the only people that actually resigned over the Iraq war were Robin Cook and Claire Short so he was probably right in this regard as other cabinet members would have resigned if they had known for certain that he had ignored legal advice that the war broke international laws.

However we already know Tony Blair is not a man to be trusted and an earlier article of mine detailed how he had already agreed to help the USA with any war in Iraq in a secret deal with George Bush in early 2002. This fact he also denied throughout that year, always promising anyone who asked that a war was not inevitable and could hopefully be prevented by diplomatic means.

Already the Chilcot Inquiry is proving to be very revealing and the prospect of watching Tony Blair being grilled about his lies and deceit is very tantalising. Brown has already backpedaled on an earlier attempt to hold sensitive parts of the enquiry behind closed doors and Chilcot has said that as much of the enquiry as possible should be held in public. Therefore only some behind closed doors secret dealing could keep Blair’s testimony from being prime time viewing and it all depends on whether Brown feels he also has anything to hide regarding the war.

If I remember correctly Brown who was chancellor at the time was very quite during the build up and the actual fighting of the war and two of his actual achievements since becoming leader have been to bring the British troops back from Iraq and to keep an earlier promise to hold a full public enquiry into the war.  Therefore he is probably cherishing the thought of putting his arch rival in the “dock” and making him squirm as he better than most would know the kind of secrets and lies a man like Anthony Charles Lynton Blair would be keeping.

Already the Chilcot enquiry has turned out to be very revealing and it might not turn into the white wash we were all expecting. We will just have to wait and see what the outcome is.