Tuesday 18 January 2011

The Chilcot Enquiry: Wot, No Letters … ?

Hmmm …

You remember me telling you I had an interview, today … ?

Well, I’ve just got back from it.

I think it went well: but couldn’t tell you for sure, those: I’ll find out in a week, whether I’ve got through to round two.

But one thing I do know is that I got back …

And switched the news on.

And found out that Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O’Donnell has refused to allow the Chilcot Enquiry into the Iraq War access to letters between former PM, Tony Blair, and former US President, George W. Bush.

According to Sir Gus, it’s “not in the public interest”.

Personally … ?

I think he’s talking out of his trousers.

Tony Blair took this country into a war.

A war I believe to have little — or no — justification.

I’d like to know why.

I believe those letters may — may — have something to say about it.

For a civil servant to take that sort of line … ?

I believe is incredibly arrogant, and also not in the public interest.

We have, after all, a right to know why friends and relatives in Britain’s were and still are, endangered in what is I believe to be a US — not a UK — war.

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