Morning Star.png Labour Has To Kick Out Blair Lamiat Sabin, The Morning Star, London, 7 July 2016 Tony Blair should be forced out of the Labour Party following the Chilcot Inquiry's scathing assessment of his involvement in the Iraq invasion, an anti-war group said yesterday after paying respects to dead soldiers. The names of dead service people were read out by activists in Westminster, shouted over the constantly ringing bells of Westminster Abbey, until minutes before the Chilcot report was made available to the world. Stop the War Coalition (STWC) activists announced the names of 179 British soldiers and some of the countless Iraqi civilians who died as a result of the decision of George Bush and Tony Blair, while protesters stood in silence before chanting "Blair lied, thousands died." The "naming the dead" ceremony was held outside the Queen Elizabeth II conference centre, where families of slain personnel were given early access to the summary and 2.6 million-word report. StWc convener Lindsey German said Blair should be "driven out" of Labour for sending the military over to obliterate Iraq alongside US forces, without even a solid basis for doing so. He used lies and deception to get his "unnecessary and illegal war," she added. Ms German gave the crowd an early tip-off from a trusted source about how serious the revelations in the report would turn out to be. Many commentators said prior to the publication that it would "whitewash" the involvement of Blair - who is also a former Middle East "peace envoy" - but that turned out to not be the case. She said: "This is an incredibly damning report for Tony Blair. It will not call for legal sanctions but it says that Blair is culpable for the war in many ways. "He needs to be driven out of public life. He is still part of the Labour Party. We need to make sure that truth and justice prevails. There must be legal action against Blair and he should no longer be considered fit for any office." CND general secretary Kate Hudson added: "The report shows that Tony Blair had no respect for cabinet procedure, no respect for Parliament, and no respect for international law. "Chilcot reveals the evidence that must now be used to bring Tony Blair to justice. This is our demand. Only when justice is served can we prevent disasters like the Iraq war ever happening again." Quotes: Everyone who took part in the war against Iraq should be condemned, either Britain or others - Iraqi journalist Juma al-Quraishi Ex-British prime minister Tony Blair destroyed our country. From 2003 until now, our country has been a scene of destruction, killing, massacres, explosions and sectarianism - Baghdad resident Ali al-Saraji The report provides all the evidence needed to demonstrate that the Iraq War was illegal in its conception, criminally incompetent in its execution and catastrophic in its consequences - Communist Party of Britain The use of Ireland's Shannon airport for the Iraq war was immoral and unjustified. Not only did this contravene our stance as a neutral nation, but it also facilitated death, destruction, and destabilisation in the Middle East - Sinn Fein MEP Lynn Boylan From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-7f65-Labour-has-to-kick-out-Blair#.V33k m_l9600 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 13764 (20160707) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/003c01d1d816%24b25f86a0%24171e93e0%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
