ChilCot Enquiry

(06-07-2016 18:13 )Censorship :-( Wrote:  

(06-07-2016 17:34 )SecretAgent Wrote:  

(06-07-2016 14:00 )Censorship :-( Wrote:  On the other side of the pond, Hillary Clinton voted for it too; then again, a number of commentators have pointed out that 'she has not yet met a war that she didn't like!' alluding to her right-wing, neocon tendencies.

Clinton pales into insignificance compared to Trump who has no idea what the word diplomacy means and has said complimentary things about a number of tyrants & indicated he would use waterboarding.

Trump's an idiot who says whatever he thinks will go down well with the audience he is addressing and/or what will get him headlines etc. Ultimately, I'm not sure we can believe what he says, or even if he knows what he himself thinks about anything, never mind know what he would do if he had any power (perish the thought!) !

Clinton has a track record, not just of supporting the Iraq war, but also with her support for intervention in Libya (some say she was the driving force behind it!), and she was 'champing at the bit' for much greater intervention in Syria; all of these 'escapades' have been disastrous, and have done such a great job of making the world a safer place (not!)!

Be afraid, be very afraid.

The lesser of two evils is still an evil. It really doesn't help when they're both as evil as each other!

(06-07-2016 13:46 )Charlemagne Wrote:  So it took 7 years to produce that

The Hillsborough inquest took 2 years, so in comparison 7 years to investigate a war doesn't seem that unreasonable.

Since the report's indictment of the war was so damning, I think the enquiry would have needed to examine every possible detail to come to its conclusions.