Chilcott

After the Chilcott report is finally made (if it ever is) there should be two further enquiries:

1. Why was the report commissioned only in 2009? The invasion took place in 2003.
2. Why are we still waiting for Chilcott?

MPs seem to think the report should not be published before an election. I'm not sure why. Westminster badly let the country and the world down with their 'yes' vote. They were completely out of the step with the nation. I didn't see any marches in favour of the invasion of Iraq. Blair may have been the arch-villain on this side of the Atlantic, but there was a 412-149 vote in support of his proposals. The voting split, by Party, was as follows:

Party	For	Against
Con	146	2 (+1 tell)
DUP	5	0
Ind	0	1
Ind Con	1	0
Lab	254 (+2 tell)	84 (+1 tell)
LDem	0	52
PC	0	4
SDLP	0	1
SNP	0	5
UUP	6	0
Total:	412	149

BLAIR SPEAKS

You'd think GREAT LEADER TONY would have the decency to jump off a tall building or at least shut up.  

Ordinary Citizen Firing

I'm surprised no-one else has mentioned the situation in Libya. John Simpson of the BBC said it all when, a few weeks ago, in trying to explain away an incident of 'friendly fire' against the 'rebel' forces, he said something like, "The NATO pilots can't distinguish between anti-aircraft guns and ordinary citizen firing into the air". Ordinary citizen firing into the air? What are we doing there?