Tony Blair | War criminal | Genocide | Lies & Deceit

Gordon Brown at the Iraq Inquiry

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Gordon Brown attended the Iraq Inquiry on 5th March 2010 as he was duly notified he must attend. Ideally he would have liked to have left it until after the election. A nice timely reminder for him that he, Blair and others involved in this National scandal are answerable, and will always be answerable for what happened, and is still happening. Currently this inquiry with it’s hand picked panel members is toothess, it means very little. But it is the start. The start of justice for the hundreds of thousands of innocents who have lost their lives in foreign lands. For the innocent British servicemen and women who have lost their lives or been maimed in an illegal war and for their long suffering families. We will get justice. That I promise.

13 years at the very heart of Government, Brown is up to his neck in shit, the same as Blair.

Of course Brown’s attendance was stage managed and carefully planned. He strode through the front entrance to the Inquiry, confident. Whereas Blair had sneaked in the back entrance like a coward. Of course Blair will hide behind the fact ‘the police advised him for security reasons’ etc. to do this.
Brown even smiled at the audience inside. Some people’s arrogance is stunning. This man didn’t just write the cheques for the war. This is all the mainstream media are reporting on. Did he give enough money for ‘our boys’? etc.
Don’t get me wrong I have every sympathy for our brave boys and girls who really do the most extraordinary things when asked upon by their nation, even risk their lives in illegal wars, and they must have adequate protection and support.
It turns out Brown has been lying about his full financial support for the armed forces anyway and will recalled to the inquiry, but that’s another story.
To reiterate it is extremely serious if the Government didn’t supply enough money for the armed forces on the ground, although we have to consider the powers that be within the army may have spent the money unwisely, targetted the wrong areas, anything. This needs to be examined under a microscope to protect our troops in the future.
The main bone of contention is how this man (Gordon Brown) and the others surrounding him in the cabinet pushed for this war in the first place and allowed it, and how he is in charge now, still pushing the war.
What I want to focus on is a few main points.
How can one of the most senior politicians in the land at the time and the longest standing friend and foe of the then Prime Minster Tony Blair not have the upmost knowledge of what was going on? Of course he knew more than almost everyone else at the time, yet there is no pressure on him from the people that should be exerting pressure. He’s still advocating what was started in Iraq for God’s sake.

Brown was asked at the beginning of the session, inquiry chairman Sir John Chilcot asked Mr Brown if he thought the decision to take military action in Iraq was right.

“I think that this is the gravest decision of all, to make a decision to go to war.

“I believe we made the right decision for the right reasons, because the international community had for years asked Saddam Hussein to abide by international law and the international obligations that he’d accepted.

Unbelievably Brown is still defending the decision to go to war and saying we got it right! This stuff defies belief. Will they wake up when they are being escorted to their cells at The Hague? Even then you have to see their arrogance will blind them to that facty, even then.

To cover Brown’s lies about funding though. brown told Sir John Chilcot’s inquiry that the budget for British troops had “risen above the rate of inflation every year for the last decade.” Mr Brown later repeated the claim in the Commons.
However 2 days later on 17th March 2010 in the House of Commons, Brown conceded that the claim was not accurate and that he would be writing to the inquiry to correct the statement. “I do accept that, in one or two years, defence expenditure did not rise in real terms,” he said.

Mr Brown blamed “operational fluctuations” for the individual falls in real-terms spending.

Mr Brown had fiercely defended the claim at last week’s PMQs.

“I said to the inquiry very clearly first of all that the expenditure of the Ministry of Defence has been rising in real terms,” he told David Cameron. “The defence budget… is rising every year.”

Liam Fox, the shadow Defence Secretary, said :

Mr Brown’s admission represented “a humiliating climbdown” from a week ago. “His attempt to rewrite history has failed and his fantasy figures have been exposed,” he said.