Well, it's about damned time. I would have hoped it would happen here in the USA prior to this very day, however the cards were dealt and that Ace-in-the-Hole never showed up, unfortunately.
The British Government has finally decided to open an inquiry, maybe even so much as an actual investigation to the events leading up to the signing on of Tony Blair as George Bush's very Poodle Partner in the War For Oil.
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From NYT:
Britain Opens Inquiry Into Iraq War, After Years of Delay
After years of delay and dispute, Britain formally opened an official public inquiry on Tuesday into the Iraq war — a conflict that stirred deep opposition here as former Prime Minister Tony Blair broke ranks with major European allies to join the United States in the 2003 invasion.
The probe seemed likely to illuminate hitherto unpublicized aspects of the relationship between London and Washington that led critics to depict Mr. Blair as a slavish junior partner in his alliance with President George W. Bush.
That close relationship does not seem to have been mirrored on the ground, according to official Defense Ministry documents leaked to a British newspaper Monday on the eve of the inquiry’s opening.
The documents, published in The Daily Telegraph, revealed a climate of stark animosity among senior British officers toward American military commanders, in sharp contrast to Mr. Blair’s support for the war as President Bush’s principal international partner.
Britain was the second-largest troop provider, and thus the Bush administration’s principal ally among about 30 nations constituting the occupation force.
The inquiry which opened Tuesday is led by a retired official, Sir John Chilcot, formerly the highest-ranking civil servant in the Northern Ireland Office.
Tony Blair, at that time Prime Minister, lost all respect within the British Parliment and with British citizens over casting his lot with the Cowboy from Connecticut. As well he should have, of course.
Tony Blair had the same information as our intellegence departments here in the USA did about WMD's and Yellow Cake and the various bullshit that was spewed about Saddam and his (lack of) ties to Al Queda. Mr. Blair could not have been in the dark as to the fact that there WERE NO FACT's other than those made up just to start Cheney's War for Profit and a Landing Field for attacking Iran and taking liberating their people and their Oil, too!
Let's all hope and pray, if you do that sort of thing, that this inquiry will lead to obvious answers and those answers will lead to more questions being asked here in America.