never happen again George G well dead
man can't tell Tales Mr Deputy speaker
and Dr David Kelly isn't here to answer
what I believe were several unwarranted
interpretations of events surrounding
him uh given by the right honorable
gentleman who has just
spoken uh the words of Lord
heart that the circumstance We Now find
ourselves in as a
scandal is one compounded by the Acres
of empty green benches all around us
today there are some 30 members of the
House present there are some seven
members of the labor party which took us
into the war and most of those were
Resolute opponents of the war and
another is in the dock in the inquiry
and our come to him
later the schleswig Holstein question
took a long time but that's because
nobody knew the
answer everybody knows the answer to the
question why Sir John chilcott has come
forward a week before our debate when he
knew that it was on the order paper to
tell us that this inquiry will not
report before the the general election
everybody knows the answer to that
however much flannel is pulled around it
it is to avoid the fact that the report
can only highlight the Ironclad
consensus that existed at that time
between the two front
benches the Prime Minister and his
acolytes only one of whom has the
courage to be here today and the leaders
of the opposition
the then leader who isn't here today but
whose principal role in these matters
was to egg the Prime Minister
on to war bigger and faster as those of
us who were here well remember bitterly
remember I declare an interest Mr Deputy
speaker I am the maker of the film the
killings of Tony Blair which will be out
soon I'm doubt hugely benefit boort but
I have many other interests of a non
pecuniary nature in this because like
some of my friends who are not so
gullible as the Highly expensively
Educated right honorable gentleman who's
just spoken we did not look into the
Bambi eyes of the then of the then I'm
talking about his university I probably
helped to pay for it he give way of
course just just for the record I went
to a secondary modern School
school but but you went to an expensive
University that the rest of us paid
for the the right honorable gentleman
says and many others now say that they
gazed into the Bambi eyes of the then
Prime Minister Tony Blair and he was
their prime minister what could they do
except follow him over the cliff what
kind of
parliamentarian takes such an approach
because somebody tells you something is
true you must follow them when the
consequences were easily predictable
were predicted by millions of ordinary
citizens out in our streets without the
benefit of that education without the
benefit of a seat in this
house what kind of parliamentarian is a
question I want to concentrate on
because because I could talk for hours
and usually do regularly do about what
this has all
cost the people of Iraq the people of
the wider region but I want to
concentrate on what it has cost us and I
don't mean financially either when the
chil inquiry was announced in this
house I described it as a parade of
establishment M
flunkies who will now say that I was
wrong I decried the fact that there was
no a man who knows what military Affairs
are about I decried the fact that there
was no lawyer on the panel I had in mind
the right honorable and learned
gentleman for Northeast F who could have
covered for the fact that there was no
parliamentarian on the panel I decried
the fact that nobody would recognize
some of the panel members if they were
sitting next to them on the clap Omnibus
and it was difficult to understand why
they had been chosen I decried the fact
that two of the members of the panel had
described Bush and Blair as the Truman
and chel
doour they talk about party pre they
were prizers for the war they were now
being asked to inquire into no sooner
had the panel being appointed then the
principal Gatekeepers who were appointed
to the inquiry panel and I'm grateful to
the right honorable gentleman for that
information he's in our film by the way
and very eloquent
too that the principal gatekeeper to the
chilot inquiry was the principal
GateKeeper
between the foreign office and the
intelligence services and ministers in
the run up to the war talk about party
pre these individuals were either
unqualified or were
disqualified from participation in this
inquiry that it has taken so long and
been so
expensive would of
course be
tolerable if our position in the the
world had not continued to deteriorate
and the conditions in the world had not
continued to deteriorate I tell the
right honorable uh gentleman uh who
spoke earlier and who's as I said in the
dock here he will never escape from the
consequences of what he said and done he
looks to me a haunted figure compared to
the spring heill Jack that he used to be
as well he might because he will never
escape from it it will follow him to the
grave and into the history books that he
przed for something which is turned into
an unmitigated catastrophe for the world
but also for
us I don't blame sir Jeremy hwood Sir
Humphrey I don't blame even the chilcott
inquiry I don't blame Tony Blair at
least for this I blame us this is a poor
excuse for a parliament Mr Deputy
speaker if only members of it could more
clearly see so it is a poor excuse for a
parliament that sets up an inquiry funds
an
inquiry and then says three parliaments
on as the former Defense secretary said
three parliaments on we might who knows
when we might get the fruits of that
inquiry this is pontious pilot this is
washing our hands of something which is
bleeding us at home and abroad what do I
mean I mean this Mr Deputy speaker this
has cost us Millions yes it's cost us
six years yes but the world is hurling
to disaster the decisions that were made
in
here on the basis of the arguments made
by the government at the
time has torn Iraq and its region aunder
it has fantastically fantastically
unbelievably
incalculably inflated the danger of
extremism fanaticism and terrorism Iraq
no longer exists as a state onethird of
it is controlled by the heart eating
head chopping amputating crucifying
so-called Islamic State and members
still will not say that they were wrong
let alone the Prime Minister skating
around in
Davos Mr Blair the former prime minister
who still says he was right and would do
it all
again Iraq had no weapons of M
destruction the argument for the war was
therefore false if it was not a
falsehood it has been a catastrophe and
I told the then prime minister there are
no al-Qaeda in Iraq but if you and Bush
invade there will be hundreds of
thousands of al-Qaeda in Iraq little did
I know that Al-Qaeda would spawn
something even more
horrific than Al-Qaeda I told the then
prime minister
the fall of Baghdad will not be the
beginning of the end but merely the end
of the beginning and that the fanaticism
and extremism that you will unleash will
travel and Cascade everywhere including
onto our own streets so I close here as
I see you're anxious Mr Deputy speaker I
close with this no one outside can
really understand how all these
political
professionals highly remunerated
highly
rewarded with all their intelligence and
education can have made such a
catastrophic error when millions of
people who did not enjoy those
privileges outside already knew that it
would end in the disaster in which it
has
ended speaker it's always