Tuesday, January 10, 2006

'Impeach Blair' - General Sir Michael Rose

Prime Minister Tony Blair should be "impeached" over the war in Iraq, a former top British soldier has said. The ex-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.

in a Channel 4 television documentary, Iraq: The Failure Of War, General Sir Michael tells former war correspondent and independent MP Martin Bell: "Blair should be impeached."

The general told Today the consequences for Iraq and the war on terror had been "quite disastrous", he added , "Certainly from a soldier's perspective there can't be any more serious decision taken by a prime minister than declaring war," he said.

He claimed 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."

General Sir Michael said he would not have led troops into a war he believed was wrong. "You cannot put people in harm's way if you don't believe the cause is right or sufficient," he said. But he added it would be wrong to just walk away from Iraq now.

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, proposed by Plaid Cymru MP for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, Adam Price, 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.

On Monday, Mr Price said it was "essential a committee is established to investigate the matter thoroughly If a government is not held to account for its actions, then democracy cannot be upheld. This government, who are willing to lead us into a war, must also be willing to take responsibility for those actions."


Audio here Source here ( both BBC)

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

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January 10, 2006 3:20 am  
Blogger starbender said...

To go to war on what turns out to be false grounds ----
We don't feel Saddam was "false grounds"
:)

January 10, 2006 3:21 am  
Blogger Unknown said...

Stabender? You mean Truthbender. The "single issue" was the WMD issue which was debunked before the war started.

January 10, 2006 9:51 am  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

uh- No one should be impeached over the "fake war of iraq except President George W. Bush himself!

January 10, 2006 6:31 pm  

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