Saturday, April 14, 2007
General Calls For Blair To Be Impeached before He Stands Down.
General Sir Michael Rose, former head of the elite SAS Force and Commander of UN Forces in Bosnia, warns that Prime Minister Tony Blair must be impeached before he leaves office over the Iraq war because of the damage caused to the country's armed forces during his ten years in office.
The politicization of the army was one of the most damaging developments under Blair. "If Blair had been a director of Enron (the American energy firm which spectacularly collapsed in 2001 after massive accountancy fraud), he would be doing 40 years in jail,“ he said.
Rose, who retired from the military in 1997, underlined his opposition to the invasion of Iraq from the start, by saying that if he had been chief of general staff, he would have resigned.
"I would not have been prepared to sign up to that war," he said. "Iraq has undermined the military ethos. You trust troops to do the ultimate, but they trust you not to throw them into situations that are pointless and wasteful”.
Pointless and wasteful indeed, but there is more chance of Hell freezing over than Blair being called to account for his crimes.
ALSO, This is London reports that General Sir Michael Rose said he was convinced the decision to allow 15 sailors and Marines held captive in Iran to cash in on their ordeals had been driven by the Prime Minister's office.
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The politicization of the army was one of the most damaging developments under Blair. "If Blair had been a director of Enron (the American energy firm which spectacularly collapsed in 2001 after massive accountancy fraud), he would be doing 40 years in jail,“ he said.
Rose, who retired from the military in 1997, underlined his opposition to the invasion of Iraq from the start, by saying that if he had been chief of general staff, he would have resigned.
"I would not have been prepared to sign up to that war," he said. "Iraq has undermined the military ethos. You trust troops to do the ultimate, but they trust you not to throw them into situations that are pointless and wasteful”.
Pointless and wasteful indeed, but there is more chance of Hell freezing over than Blair being called to account for his crimes.
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ALSO, This is London reports that General Sir Michael Rose said he was convinced the decision to allow 15 sailors and Marines held captive in Iran to cash in on their ordeals had been driven by the Prime Minister's office.
See all recent posts.
Labels: Blair, Iraq, Politics, War
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