{"id":12147,"date":"2011-08-18T00:53:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T04:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=12147"},"modified":"2011-08-18T00:53:44","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T04:53:44","slug":"the-chilcot-inquiry-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/18\/the-chilcot-inquiry-3\/","title":{"rendered":"the Chilcot Inquiry&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong><u><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2020968\/Iraq-inquiry-Sir-John-Chilcot-points-finger-Tony-Blair.html\"><font color=\"#200020\">Chilcot points the finger at Blair over Iraq: Inquiry &#8216;will condemn over four key failings&#8217;<\/font><\/a><\/u><\/strong><br \/> <strong><font color=\"#200020\">The Daily Mail UK<\/font><\/strong><br \/> By Daniel Martin<br \/> 1st August 2011<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">Tony Blair is to be officially  blamed over his decision to involve Britain in the disastrous Iraq War,  it was reported yesterday. The Chilcot Inquiry is expected to lay out four main criticisms of his conduct.<\/div>\n<ul>\n<div align=\"justify\">&bull; Top of the list will be the bogus claims that were made about Saddam Hussein&rsquo;s access to weapons of mass destruction.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">&bull; The former prime minister will be held to account over keeping his own Cabinet in the dark with his &lsquo;sofa government&rsquo; style.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">&bull; He is set to be castigated for not telling the British public about his secret pledge with George Bush to go to war.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">&bull; And it is believed he will be criticised over his failure to plan for post-war chaos in Iraq once Saddam had been overthrown.<\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"justify\">The report by Sir John Chilcot, former permanent secretary at the Northern&nbsp; Ireland Office, is due out later this year.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">This blog did not start with a focus on the pharmaceutical takeover of psychiatry. For over four years, I was focused on the sad state of our government and our illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq. My interest changed after Bush and Cheney got on that helicopter and flew into the sunset, but was revived when the British decided to actually look at what their government had done by joining up with the US to invade Iraq. It was called the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iraqinquiry.org.uk\/\"><u><strong><font color=\"#200020\">Chilcot Inquiry<\/font><\/strong><\/u><\/a>, and most of the UK and a few Americans like me watched it live as officials from the entire government were paraded in front of the cameras. It was reality drama at its finest. The report is coming soon [above]. Former PM Tony Blair is going to be appropriately skewered, even though Bush and Cheney have largely been forgotten. I hope the report is at least mentioned here. They purposefully stayed away from condemning the US too much, but it&#8217;s very easy to read between the lines. The debacle of our invading Iraq does not need to be forgotten&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chilcot points the finger at Blair over Iraq: Inquiry &#8216;will condemn over four key failings&#8217; The Daily Mail UK By Daniel Martin 1st August 2011 Tony Blair is to be officially blamed over his decision to involve Britain in the disastrous Iraq War, it was reported yesterday. 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