The Talking Clock: Brown accused: Military chiefs (and lots of mainstream media) accuse him of misleading Chilcot inquiry

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Saturday, 6 March 2010

Brown accused: Military chiefs (and lots of mainstream media) accuse him of misleading Chilcot inquiry

The Saturday newspapers are well worth a read today.

After partially watching Sky News' coverage of and reaction to Gordon Brown's appearance at the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war yesterday, we were left with the impression that Gordon Brown had been transformed into a demi-religious messiah with righteousness permeating every pore and sinew of his very being.

However, on the next day...

The Times leads with: "Former commanders accused Gordon Brown of deliberately misleading the Iraq inquiry after he blamed the military for failing properly to equip the Armed Forces for war."

It's report cites Admiral Lord Boyce, the Chief of the Defence Staff and Colonel Stuart Tootal, former commander of 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment as both having issues with Brown's evidence to Chilcot.

The Telegraph, meanwhile, states: "Gordon Brown has been denounced by military chiefs for claiming he gave the Armed Forces all the money they needed."

In their report, General Lord Walker - chief of the defence staff from 2003 to 2006, Lord Guthrie - a former chief of the defence staff, Major General Patrick Cordingley - a commander in the first Gulf War, and Sir Kevin Tebbit - the former permanent secretary at the MoD are all named as raising questions and criticisms.

See also:
Simon Carr: Another witness is let off the hook - The Independent
Gerald Warner - Chilcot Inquiry: Gordon Brown supported Iraq War, but Macavity was out mousing at key moments
Quentin Letts - Someone plainly told Gordon Brown to look relaxed. Hence the awful grins
The Sun: Brownwash
Daily Express: Backlash for PM as he dodges flak over Iraq war

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...genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.

"And when I look at people in public life... I'm not a political animal but I think the biggest disease this world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved, and I know that I can give love - for a minute, for an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that."
- Diana, Princess of Wales, 1996

"I think the British people need someone in public life to give affection, to make them feel important, to support them, to give them light in their dark tunnels. I see it as a possibly unique role, and yes, I've had difficulties, as everybody has witnessed over the years, but let's now use the knowledge I've gathered to help other people in distress."
- Diana, Princess of Wales, 1996

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- Earl Spencer

"..she was our guardian, friend and protector. She never once allowed her unfaltering love for us to go unspoken or undemonstrated. She will always be remembered for her amazing public works. But behind the media glare, to us, just two loving children, she was quite simply the best mother in the world."
- Prince Harry

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"...our membership of the European Union has removed our democracy; it has taken away the right of the British people to elect and dismiss those who make their laws. Our system of representative parliamentary democracy, for which millions have died over hundreds of years, has been frittered away. It no longer serves the people. That is why the time has come to give power back to the people. They deserve it anyway; it is their power and it belongs to them. Before long their anger will overflow if they do not get it back."

- Former UKIP leader Lord Pearson in the House of Lords, 5th February 2009

British resistance and liberty

"We British have in a very special way contributed to Europe. Over the centuries we have fought to prevent Europe from falling under the dominance of a single power. We have fought and we have died for her freedom. Only miles from here, in Belgium, lie the bodies of 120,000 British soldiers who died in the First World War.

Had it not been for that willingness to fight and to die, Europe would have been united long before now - but not in liberty, not in justice. It was British support to resistance movements throughout the last War that helped to keep alive the flame of liberty in so many countries until the day of liberation."

- Margaret Thatcher, Bruges, 1992

Saturday, 6 March 2010

Brown accused: Military chiefs (and lots of mainstream media) accuse him of misleading Chilcot inquiry

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