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An inquiry into the Iraq war will finally be held…. in private. This is disappointing news for those who desperately want to know what lead to the government making the case to invade Iraq in 2003.

What is puzzling is that some of those same MPs who supported the original invasion are backing such a move. This article from Spiked’s website today  points out the clear hypocrisy of their conduct then compared to the present day.

We need a proper independent inquiry, one which is free from political interference, and one which clearly legally holds those current and previous members of the Labour government to account,  and which they are forced to explain and defend their decisions in public.

We shouldn’t stop there. There may be overwhelming evidence that those same politicians, including the former Prime Minister Tony Blair and the current one Gordon Brown, could be tried in court as war criminals. All of them must be summoned and face prosecution, or even prison time. That way, we can then lance this festering boil off the nation’s collective conscience.