i'm one of the people who was right
about iraq
itn
were some of the people who were very
badly wrong
and treated people like me as if we were
liars or idiots or both
when we told you exactly what everyone
now knows
that the government's case for the
invasion of iraq
was a pack of lies
and that
disaster would be the result
there's not many people will contest
either of these two points now
so
the chief perpetrator of a very big
crime is just a few yards from us inside
this building
and i didn't want to lose the
opportunity of
shouting
my feelings about him as he went in
however like the coward that he is he
snuck in through a back door
before uh
light
and avoided us today he can run but he
can't hide there is a coward he's ready
to fight to the last drop of other
people's blood he's ready to send other
mother sons
uh to their graves in these wars he
would never dream of sending his own
children and he can't even face
his accusers uh by entering through the
front door of a tribunal in the way that
every other witness has
well it was a hand-picked group of
establishment flunkies as i described it
in the house of commons on the day it
was appointed and its terms of reference
were deliberately limited
so that it could come up with the least
damaging conclusions
but the blood stain is spreading as a
result of this
inquiry
and it's a spot that will not out
in shakespeare's words uh no amount of
establishment flanking them can hide the
fact that it is obvious
that a pack of lies were told a disaster
was the result and that a crime under
international law has almost certainly
taken place my question is how can he
possibly sleep at night let alone be a
roman catholic and take confession i
don't understand that but uh i expect
that over six hours
he will be
questioned on the principle that even a
stopped clock is right twice a day even
this panel over six hours is bound to
ask some difficult question and we'll
see what the outcome is well i think if
you killed somebody
and went on trial for murder
and your defense was
that although the person had no weapon
although the person made no move against
you
you believed that in their mind that one
day they were going to harm you
your plea of self-defense would be given
short shift and you would end up in
prison for murder and that's where mr
blair should be