Zacs-Master - //Whilst I have every sympathy with the bereaved families and disabled victims, soldiers sign up to serve Queen and Country without question. No one forced them to do it and they joined up in full knowledge that they would, in all probability, be put in harms way. //
I have always taken the position that soldiers are professional fighters, and going to war is effectively, doing their job.
But that said, I do believe that the bereaved families have the right to know if they lost their loved ones in a just and legal conflict, or if as increasingly appears to be the case - they were sent to their deaths by a government who was too quick and too keen to believe discredited intelligence information, and had no clear plan of what they were doing, going to do, or what would happen after they left the war zone.
The length of time and constant legal chicanery that is going on at further emotional and financial expense to the families and the tax payer increasingly appears to indicate that the outcome is not going to be good for any of those involved.
If, as advised, Sir John is an independent adjudicator in the enquiry, then why is he taking so long, and refusing assistance to speed things up?
It simply adds (literally) insult to injury that these families are left waiting for answers, while those involved have tefloned away into lucrative retirements without a care in the world.