The Talking Clock: Iraq: Ayes 412, Noes 149.

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Friday, 22 January 2010

Iraq: Ayes 412, Noes 149.

The media is going to tell us a lot today about Gordon Brown giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry about his role in the decision to go to war with Iraq.

We, the people, can have all the inquiry we need at the click of a mouse.

What allowed us to go to war with Iraq? A vote in the House of Commons.

We know, in retrospect, that a vast number of MPs feel that they were misled - which is where the 'dodgy dossier' comes in.

Be the dodgy dossier as it may or may not be, 412 MPs voted in favour of war while 149 voted against.

The list of how they voted makes for interesting reading. A few surprises in each list, six years and ten months after the event.

So, how did your MP vote on that fateful day, 18th March 2003..? Many of these MPs are still serving, of course. Here are all details of the MPs votes on whether to go to war.

And, for those of you who genuinely want to keep reliving that date, the full Hansard record of the debate is online here.

It's all a lot quicker and cheaper than the Chilcot inquiry, depending on what you feel you want or need to know when forming your opinions on what went on.

1 comments:

Mrs Clock22 January 2010 08:23
I'm sure that the enquire came about so those in the house of snouts; who are now feeling embarrassed about the decisions they took at time; don't have to take responsibility for there own actions like an adult.... Because they were mislead . . . . what a load of tosh, at the time it was fairly plain to see that this dossier, 45 minutes, world destruction thing was a fiction, we knew that most of it was lifted from the internet well before the war began.

So no excuses, the 412 are murderers plain and simple, we could let some of them off on diminished responsibility on the grounds of mental incapacity, but on the whole they knew what they were doing and should take the fall for what they did.
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