Blair On Trial As A War Criminal?

[youngmafbog]

Is this revenge for Blair claiming you need a heart transplant if you like Corbyn?

Seems there is no love lost here. Labour appears to be heading for meltdown.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3185592/Corbyn-suggests-Blair-face-trial-war-crimes-Iraq-Comments-set-fuel-tensions-leadership-battle-hundreds-flock-rally-South-London.html

[Gromit]

Corbyn is going over board announcing popular policies, and locking up Blair is just the latest.

Of course most people would all like to see Blair behind bars, but promising it is just pandering to the voters.

[Peter Pedant]

It is a vote catcher

This has been looked at a lot in the last twenty years and is a non starter - (you know like allegation of child molesting by people who are long dead - so probably it will get up and run -oh Blair isnt dead....)

[Baldric]

If only,
it would get my vote!

[anotheoldgit]

If Blair ever did face war crimes, I wonder if Bush would be forced to join him?

[redvanman]

Good idea

[Peter Pedant]

Life imitating Art

wasnt there a prog on this - with the one who played Blair in The Queen reprising his role

[jno]

the idea of a trial is a complete non-starter. It's just leftists and rightists alike demonstrating the power of hindsight, which Blair didn't have.

In effect they want to try him for losing the war.

[Peter Pedant]

// If Blair ever did face war crimes, I wonder if Bush would be forced to join him?//

force ? force ?

see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity
also separate article on sovereign immunity in the US

My apologies for taking a point by AOG semi-seriously

[Gromit]

jno,

The Chilcot inquiry was suppose to investigate Blair's role.

It finished taking evidence in 2011.

Last year it was delayed because of the impending General Election.

Now that is over, Chilcot has announce there are new lines of enquiry and that will take another two years.

Like Cyril Smith, Heath and Co., there will be a cover up until Blair and Bush are both dead.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// Now that is over, Chilcot has announce there are new lines of enquiry and that will take another two years. ///

And it would now appear that Cameron is getting a little impatient.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33782882

[Baldric]

///the Cons will be heading for Meltdown///

They've only got to look at the Labour Party to see a perfect example of how to do that!

[Gromit]

AOG

// Pretty soon //

Good to see Cameron putting a definite time limit on it.
And that is for a timetable, not a publication date.

[Peter Pedant]

The length and cost of the Chilcott inquiry is a bit of a red herring

Chilcott has been maxwellised which is that one introduces endless cycles of rebuttal and argument when you criticise someone. ( he has a right of reply and then the accuser has a right of rebuttal and then the accused has a right of rejoinder and then the .... blah blah blah )

and cost

When the saville inquiry looked as tho it was gonna top £200m ( what ? how much ? Bloody Sunday not Jimmy S ) Inquiries Act 2005 was enacted to limit costs

and is nothing really to do with Blair being a war criminal

[sevenOP]

Blair was found guilty (along with Bush) of war crimes by a Malaysian tribunal in Nov 2011

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuala_Lumpur_War_Crimes_Commission

Such trials can prejudice the health of native aviation interests.

[jno]

it's not going to happen.