Public Inquiry into Blunkett's Call for Blair to Bomb al-Jazeera
It was revealed today that David Blunkett has admitted to a Channel 4 documentary that he called upon Tony Blair to bomb al-Jazeera in Baghdad during the invasion of Iraq, even though this would have been in violation of international law.
I am calling for an inquiry into Blunkett’s statement on the basis that it is contrary to international law to be calling for attacks on civilian institutions, and in fact it is laid down in international law that the military must seek to do all it can to protect civilians during any military operations.
The fact that a senior Cabinet minister was calling for an attack on civilians must be taken extremely seriously. The Government must now launch a public inquiry into former Secretary of State Blunkett’s role in this affair.
I am calling for an inquiry into Blunkett’s statement on the basis that it is contrary to international law to be calling for attacks on civilian institutions, and in fact it is laid down in international law that the military must seek to do all it can to protect civilians during any military operations.
The fact that a senior Cabinet minister was calling for an attack on civilians must be taken extremely seriously. The Government must now launch a public inquiry into former Secretary of State Blunkett’s role in this affair.
posted by John at 11:33 PM
5 Comments:
I agree John, but why are you so surprised that government ministers would do something that is illegal.
Trust no one, in what they say, if governments are contemplating such a thing in another country perhaps a fresh look should be made at other "facts" and occurances that support this government's policies.
Freedom of information in the UK is less than satisfactory. Mnipulation of opinion and fact are becaming a first priority and the newspeak thtaissues forth from junior ministers and Blair acolytes is sickening.
Many of these MPs have little sense of anything other than a good wheeze and getting paid for it.
Shouldn't there be a criminal investigation since this almost certainly breaches some of the provisions of their own 'anti-terror' legislation?
Not sure its in the interest of anti war campaigners to go down that route as i believe it will emerge that in fact blair was against it and actually persuaded george bush not to do it. Don't forget clinton was more than happy to do this, bombing serb tv killing make up girls etc, so if blair did persuade bush out of it it might end up making him look good!
Which sounds like conspiracy to me...since he failed to report the criminal proposal. I'm not sure any Muslim in such a position would get away with it.
So much has already been revealed about the number of deaths in Iraq, the 'suicide' of Dr David Kelly, the deaths of unembedded journalists, torture at Abu Ghraib, UK soldiers committing suicide rather than be sent to shoot Iraqi children and yet nothing changes. We are becoming inured to the brutality reported daily in the news. The massive anti-war movement seems incapable of taking effective action to stop what big business and those in government who are on their payrolls are doing.
Post a Comment
<< Home