Iraq Enquiry – What’s to hide?
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009So the inquiry into Iraq is going to be held in behind closed doors, in secrecy, private.
What a surprise. Just like always, Brown cannot help but hide things.
Has he never really believed in freedom of information? Obviously not – at least when it comes to Iraq. After all, he refused to publish the minutes of the Cabinet meeting when they decided to go to war. And now this inquiry is going to be held in secret, rather than in public like it should. Its another occasion where the government want to know everything but don’t share it!
The big question that has to be asked here is what have they got to hide?
Surely there must be some deep dark secret buried in this that would be damning to Brown or another senior Cabinet member – or even Tony Blair, and part of the deal they struck when Blair stood down was for this to be covered up.
My best friend through childhood and school died with two others in a Mortar attack at Basra Airport. I want to know the outcome of this enquiry and if anything could have been done to avoid the war, I mean I know what he was doing there was good and beneficial, but was it necessary…
Did I have to lose my friend so young?
The inquiry must be public if we are to trust its conclusions. And whatever the truth may be, we have the right to know it.
Iraq is still a big issue. Until we find out the truth through a publicly held inquiry, it will remain so.
Extracted quote from the Ministry of Defense after the incident in Basra:
One of the gunners killed, SAC Christopher Dunsmore, was a member of 504 (County of Nottingham) Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force. Chris was the first auxiliary to be killed in action since WWII. He had been serving as a member of 1 Squadron Royal Air Force Regiment and the commanding officer Sqn Ldr Jason Sutton had the following to say.
“SAC Christopher Dunsmore was 29, from Leicester, and had been a member of 504 Squadron Royal Auxiliary Air Force Regiment at RAF Cottesmore for four years. Engaged to Donna, he held a managerial position in a paint company and was a keen snow boarder, but since August 2006 he had been attached to 1 Squadron having committed a year of his life to the service of his country.
