Comments on: Contributors and Supporters http://www.iraqinquirydigest.org Everything about the Chilcot Inquiry in one place Wed, 8 Sep 2010 22:37:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: gordon gentle http://www.iraqinquirydigest.org/?page_id=261&cpage=1#comment-3085 gordon gentle Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:43:01 +0000 http://www.iraqinquirydigest.org/?page_id=261#comment-3085 [...] by a roadside bomb in Basra in Iraq, said the MoD should not allow the servicemen to sell their ...Contributors and Supporters Iraq Inquiry DigestRose Gentle, mother of Gordon Gentle, killed in Iraq. Clarissa ... Comment from rose gentle. Time [...] [...] by a roadside bomb in Basra in Iraq, said the MoD should not allow the servicemen to sell their …Contributors and Supporters Iraq Inquiry DigestRose Gentle, mother of Gordon Gentle, killed in Iraq. Clarissa … Comment from rose gentle. Time [...]

]]> By: rose gentle http://www.iraqinquirydigest.org/?page_id=261&cpage=1#comment-2631 rose gentle Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:29:46 +0000 http://www.iraqinquirydigest.org/?page_id=261#comment-2631 to day look to me as if Gordon brown was saying that the military did not ask for equipment its been in all the papers military personnel have even says that there was not enough equipment and after ny son was killed in one of them snatch land rovers we lost 36 more boys , i would like now for some one in the military to say we did ask you for more equipment, i think he ran rings round the comity to day to day look to me as if Gordon brown was saying
that the military did not ask for equipment
its been in all the papers military personnel have even says that there was not enough equipment
and after ny son was killed in one of them snatch land rovers we lost 36 more boys , i would like now for some one in the military to say we did ask you for more equipment, i think he ran rings round the comity to day

]]> By: Stan Rosenthal http://www.iraqinquirydigest.org/?page_id=261&cpage=1#comment-2049 Stan Rosenthal Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:03:02 +0000 http://www.iraqinquirydigest.org/?page_id=261#comment-2049 Sometimes NOT going to war can be a crime against humanity if it allows the mass murderers to get away with it. Sometimes NOT going to war can be a crime against humanity if it allows the mass murderers to get away with it.

]]> By: buthaina al-Nasiri http://www.iraqinquirydigest.org/?page_id=261&cpage=1#comment-1671 buthaina al-Nasiri Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:09:15 +0000 http://www.iraqinquirydigest.org/?page_id=261#comment-1671 There should be nothing impartial about war. War, whatever the justifications, always, is a crime against humanity. I fully, support the contributers to this website. Buthaina Al-Nasiri Iraqi writer and activist There should be nothing impartial about war. War, whatever the justifications, always, is a crime against humanity.

I fully, support the contributers to this website.

Buthaina Al-Nasiri
Iraqi writer and activist

]]> By: Stan Rosenthal http://www.iraqinquirydigest.org/?page_id=261&cpage=1#comment-1412 Stan Rosenthal Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:51:16 +0000 http://www.iraqinquirydigest.org/?page_id=261#comment-1412 I have just reminded myself about the contributors and supporters at this site. I think the way the inquiry has been largely reported at this site has confirmed my initial thought about the mindset of those those behind it. I think it can be summed up by these extracts from Peter Currin's comment above. "I am also fully prepared to keep an open mind, and listen to the conclusion of an objective and impartial enquiry if Chilcot proves to be such, as most hope it will.....Nothing Chilcot or anyone else could say now could convince me that the decision to go to war was right" And Lee, a watchdog can be impartial if it picks up on the pro-war testimonies being presented as diligently as it does anything that supports the anti-war case. I seem to be the only one doing the former and I hate to think what it would have been like if I hadn't sent in my previous comment on this page which resulted in Chris (to his credit) inviting me to be a contributor. I still feel that way about you btw (i.e. you being a worthy adversary as well). I have just reminded myself about the contributors and supporters at this site.

I think the way the inquiry has been largely reported at this site has confirmed my initial thought about the mindset of those those behind it.

I think it can be summed up by these extracts from Peter Currin’s comment above.

“I am also fully prepared to keep an open mind, and listen to the conclusion of an objective and impartial enquiry if Chilcot proves to be such, as most hope it will…..Nothing Chilcot or anyone else could say now could convince me that the decision to go to war was right”

And Lee, a watchdog can be impartial if it picks up on the pro-war testimonies being presented as diligently as it does anything that supports the anti-war case. I seem to be the only one doing the former and I hate to think what it would have been like if I hadn’t sent in my previous comment on this page which resulted in Chris (to his credit) inviting me to be a contributor. I still feel that way about you btw (i.e. you being a worthy adversary as well).

]]> By: Lee Roberts http://www.iraqinquirydigest.org/?page_id=261&cpage=1#comment-458 Lee Roberts Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:24:43 +0000 http://www.iraqinquirydigest.org/?page_id=261#comment-458 I have just been pondering why Stan's use of the words "impartial watchdog over the proceedings of the Chilcot inquiry" seem so odd. A watchdog is by definition not impartial. A watchdog is, in fact, very partial. In this case, concerned to ensure that the enquiry is conducted properly and is not used to cover up important facts and protect those involved in the decisions to back Bush's Iraq invasion. Is Stan is concerned that Chilcot may be unfair to Blair and trick him into confessing, I suggest that Stan play that watchdog role on this site. I have just been pondering why Stan’s use of the words “impartial watchdog over the proceedings of the Chilcot inquiry” seem so odd. A watchdog is by definition not impartial. A watchdog is, in fact, very partial. In this case, concerned to ensure that the enquiry is conducted properly and is not used to cover up important facts and protect those involved in the decisions to back Bush’s Iraq invasion. Is Stan is concerned that Chilcot may be unfair to Blair and trick him into confessing, I suggest that Stan play that watchdog role on this site.

]]> By: Lee Roberts http://www.iraqinquirydigest.org/?page_id=261&cpage=1#comment-457 Lee Roberts Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:11:05 +0000 http://www.iraqinquirydigest.org/?page_id=261#comment-457 I believe it is absurd for Chilcot to say he will not focus on the legality of the war, and as far as I can judge, making such a statement is not even within his competence. He has no mandate to exclude such a consideration. If evidence emerges that demonstrates the illegality, there is nothing Chilcot can do to supress that. Neither does he have any power to prevent prosecutors in the UK, the Hague, Belgium, Germany, and Spain making use of that evidence. So this statement about not considering legality should be regarded as puffery from someone apparently intent on circumscribing the scope of this enquiry. I believe it is absurd for Chilcot to say he will not focus on the legality of the war, and as far as I can judge, making such a statement is not even within his competence. He has no mandate to exclude such a consideration. If evidence emerges that demonstrates the illegality, there is nothing Chilcot can do to supress that. Neither does he have any power to prevent prosecutors in the UK, the Hague, Belgium, Germany, and Spain making use of that evidence. So this statement about not considering legality should be regarded as puffery from someone apparently intent on circumscribing the scope of this enquiry.

]]> By: Lee Roberts http://www.iraqinquirydigest.org/?page_id=261&cpage=1#comment-456 Lee Roberts Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:03:57 +0000 http://www.iraqinquirydigest.org/?page_id=261#comment-456 Stan and I crossed swords for many months over Mr Blair and Iraq. I look forward to rejoining the joust. Although you couldnt find two people who disagree on Iraq as strongly as Stan and I, I regard him as a worthy adversary, and I hope he still feels that way about me. Stan and I crossed swords for many months over Mr Blair and Iraq. I look forward to rejoining the joust. Although you couldnt find two people who disagree on Iraq as strongly as Stan and I, I regard him as a worthy adversary, and I hope he still feels that way about me.

]]> By: rose gentle http://www.iraqinquirydigest.org/?page_id=261&cpage=1#comment-104 rose gentle Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:30:01 +0000 http://www.iraqinquirydigest.org/?page_id=261#comment-104 all the families are asking for is that the inquiry shuld look into how we whent in to iraq and how our troops did not have the wright equipent to do a job that our government was asking them to do we have herd so much as how we whent into iraq its hard to believe, the government how we did go in the familys have the wright to know what we lost our love one for all the families are asking for is that the inquiry
shuld look into how we whent in to iraq and how our troops did not have the wright equipent to do a job that our government was asking them to do we have herd so much as how we whent into iraq its
hard to believe, the government how we did go in
the familys have the wright to know what we lost our love one for

]]> By: Peter Curran http://www.iraqinquirydigest.org/?page_id=261&cpage=1#comment-77 Peter Curran Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:58:48 +0000 http://www.iraqinquirydigest.org/?page_id=261#comment-77 http://moridura.blogspot.com http://moridura.blogspot.com

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