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| http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com....5001028,00.html
From correspondents in London
January 08, 2006
A LEADING British Army officer believes Prime Minister Tony Blair should be
impeached for his role in the war in Iraq, the Mail on Sunday reported.
General Sir Michael Rose, a former UN commander in Bosnia, was quoted by the
right-of-centre Mail on Sunday as saying: "I think the politicians should be
held to account ... my view is that Blair should be impeached.
"That would prevent the politicians treating quite so carelessly the subject of
taking a country into war."
A high-profile resignation of a senior armed forces officer before the start of
the March 2003 conflict may also have made the British Government think twice
before sending troops to the Gulf, he added.
"I would not have gone to war on such flimsy grounds," he said.
The newspaper said the comments were made during a television documentary to be
aired on Channel Four television on Friday.
Martin Bell, BBC television's former war correspondent who made the film - Iraq:
The Failure of War - appeared to back the general, writing in the Mail on Sunday
that it was "reasonable" to blame the politicians.
"Ordering the armed forces to war is the most serious decision any government
takes. On Iraq it was taken with a degree of nonchalance bordering on
negligence," said Bell, who is a former independent member of Parliament.
Rose's opinion revives a call made in November 2004 when 23 MPs filed a motion
to impeach Blair on charges of "gross misconduct" over the US-led invasion.
Although it fell by the wayside despite attempts by Welsh and Scottish
nationalists to revive it during the general election last May, it was the first
such bid to impeach a prime minister in 198 years.
http://lordcerneabbas.blogspot.com/...q-uk-general.ht
ml
Yes! Yes! Yes!
I knew that I would finally bring people round to my way of thinking. Nemesis is
truly a mighty Goddess, and She always takes care of me.
Doing the Firebird Strutt once again......
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Never trust anybody who is too sophisticated to own a rubber chicken.
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| In article <memo.20060108022317.1000E@veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk>,
alan@veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk (Alan) wrote:
> http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com....5001028,00.html
>
> From correspondents in London
> January 08, 2006
>
> A LEADING British Army officer believes Prime Minister Tony Blair should be
> impeached for his role in the war in Iraq, the Mail on Sunday reported.
>
> General Sir Michael Rose, a former UN commander in Bosnia, was quoted by the
> right-of-centre Mail on Sunday as saying: "I think the politicians should be
> held to account ... my view is that Blair should be impeached.
>
> "That would prevent the politicians treating quite so carelessly the subject
> of taking a country into war."
>
> A high-profile resignation of a senior armed forces officer before the start
> of the March 2003 conflict may also have made the British Government think
> twice before sending troops to the Gulf, he added.
>
> "I would not have gone to war on such flimsy grounds," he said.
>
> The newspaper said the comments were made during a television documentary to
> be aired on Channel Four television on Friday.
>
> Martin Bell, BBC television's former war correspondent who made the film -
> Iraq: The Failure of War - appeared to back the general, writing in the Mail
> on Sunday that it was "reasonable" to blame the politicians.
>
> "Ordering the armed forces to war is the most serious decision any government
> takes. On Iraq it was taken with a degree of nonchalance bordering on
> negligence," said Bell, who is a former independent member of Parliament.
>
> Rose's opinion revives a call made in November 2004 when 23 MPs filed a
> motion to impeach Blair on charges of "gross misconduct" over the US-led
> invasion.
>
> Although it fell by the wayside despite attempts by Welsh and Scottish
> nationalists to revive it during the general election last May, it was the
> first such bid to impeach a prime minister in 198 years.
>
> http://lordcerneabbas.blogspot.com/...raq-uk-general.
> ht
> ml
>
> Yes! Yes! Yes!
>
> I knew that I would finally bring people round to my way of thinking. Nemesis
> is truly a mighty Goddess, and She always takes care of me.
>
> Doing the Firebird Strutt once again......
LMAO. The BBC is covering the story 24 hours after I did:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4594216.stm
Blair impeachment over Iraq urged
Prime Minister Tony Blair should be impeached over the war in Iraq, a former top
British soldier has said.
Former UN commander in Bosnia General Sir Michael Rose said Mr Blair had to take
responsibility for his actions.
"To go to war on what turns out to be false grounds is something that no one
should be allowed to walk away from," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
The consequences for Iraq and the war on terror had been "quite disastrous",
General Sir Michael said.
"Certainly from a soldier's perspective there can't be any more serious decision
taken by a prime minister than declaring war," he told the programme.
He said Mr Blair's actions were "somewhere in between" getting the politics
wrong and acting illegally.
"The politics was wrong, that he rarely declared what his ultimate aims were, as
far as we can see, in terms of harping continually on weapons of mass
destruction when actually he probably had some other strategy in mind.
"And secondly, the consequences of that war have been quite disastrous both for
the people of Iraq and also for the west in terms of our wider interests in the
war against global terror."
The general said he believed MPs had endorsed the war because Mr Blair had
stressed the argument about weapons of mass destruction.
Commons motion
There have been four separate inquiries into different aspects of the Iraq war,
including the Butler report into intelligence failings and the Hutton inquiry
into the death of Dr David Kelly.
But there has yet to be an inquiry focusing on the way the government's decision
to join a US-led invasion was made.
Last month, more than 100 MPs from across the Commons backed a call for an
inquiry by senior MPs into the handling of the Iraq war and its aftermath.
The motion called for a special committee of seven senior MPs to review the
decision-making process.
The committee would be members of the Privy Council and therefore able to look
at sensitive intelligence material.
Kindly remember that this story has been on Nemesis News for 24 hours already,
proving beyond any doubt that Nemesis News is far better than the BBC.
Doing the Firebird Strutt once again......
Lord Cerne Abbas
Humpty Dumpty Bush fell off the Iraq wall.
Humpty Dumpty Bush had a big fall.
All his spin doctors and all the President's men
couldn't put Humpty Dumpty Bush together again.
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