My fantasy with this is that Blair breaks down in the middle of questioning a la Col Nathan Jessep from the film A Few Good Men with a quote along the lines of the following (altered from the film script based on an expectation of a Blairite breakdown with changes marked in bold) ...

Blair: You can't handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna tell them to do it? You? You, Chilcot? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Iraqi civilians killed and you curse Campbell, Goldsmith, Straw, Brown, TCHoon, me? You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that Iraqi civilian deaths, while tragic, probably saved my own delusion of my reputation. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves my delusion and my cabinet at the time, Al Campbell, me, Dick Cheney and Bush from the Hague! You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on trial! You need me on trial! We use words like forty, five, minutes. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something - that something being our relationship with the Americans. You use them as a punchline! I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provided for ten years, and then questions the manner in which I provide it! I would rather you just said "Thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up an indictment, and stand ready to arrest me. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to!


In reality, Blair's most likely to obfuscate, lie and confuse. FFS - he should've been a slime!

Originally Posted by ABrighter2006

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So, how about some suggestions for the questions that the panel should ask of the former Prime Minister?......

"Does the WW take it up the arr$e?"

Originally Posted by Ursus.Maritimus

My fantasy with this is that Blair breaks down in the middle of questioning a la Col Nathan Jessep from the film A Few Good Men with a quote along the lines of the following (altered from the film script based on an expectation of a Blairite breakdown with changes marked in bold) ...

Blair: You can't handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna tell them to do it? You? You, Chilcot? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Iraqi civilians killed and you curse Campbell, Goldsmith, Straw, Brown, TCHoon, me? You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that Iraqi civilian deaths, while tragic, probably saved my own delusion of my reputation. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves my delusion and my cabinet at the time, Al Campbell, me, Dick Cheney and Bush from the Hague! You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on trial! You need me on trial! We use words like forty, five, minutes. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something - that something being our relationship with the Americans. You use them as a punchline! I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provided for ten years, and then questions the manner in which I provide it! I would rather you just said "Thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up an indictment, and stand ready to arrest me. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to!


In reality, Blair's most likely to obfuscate, lie and confuse. FFS - he should've been a slime!

Chillcot...Ahem! well thank you Mr Blair for your succinct answers to our questions.

Blair... Think nothing of it Chillers old chap, £20,000,000 should just about cover my fee.

Call me cynical if you like,but does anyone here really think Bliar has not had the questions for at least a week? No doubt his QCs will bill him accordingly,that will be the only thing that hurts him.

Blair will refuse to answer a lot of questions on security grounds and will refer to testament yet to come so that he cannot be cross-questioned on it. Wait for a lot of referencing people who haven't testified yet. He'll speak about what he believed as if that is justification alone. He'll probably also speak about how much he relied on the Bush Administration and their intelligence.
In other words Teflon Tony will blame everyone but himself.

I'm gonna write a bestseller detailing all the secrets of life, and then when Phoney Tony turns up at one of me book-signings, I'll lay me best left-hook on the slimy, immoral git.

Now, the book. Actually, I already started to write an absolute classic. I called it "The Grapes of Wrath", but then I found out that some Steinbeck fella had beaten me to it. Oh well.

MsG

Originally Posted by Markintime

Blair will refuse to answer a lot of questions on security grounds and will refer to testament yet to come so that he cannot be cross-questioned on it. Wait for a lot of referencing people who haven't testified yet. He'll speak about what he believed as if that is justification alone. He'll probably also speak about how much he relied on the Bush Administration and their intelligence.
In other words Teflon Tony will blame everyone but himself.

We have a winner.

Will also be interesting to see how the media report this as well, bearing in mind that the Sunday's must be allocating column inches by the mile for the write-up. Sadly, the headlines and leader writers are about as predictable as Blair's evidence.

Questions? might be a good idea to start with an explanation why there was an "lamentable" Â*contempt for international law within the government, they ignored their own Foreign Office Legal Advisors, kept quiet about a third unpublished Legal Draft advising that a war would be illeagal and produced by the Attorney General.....

linky

Originally Posted by Auld-Yin

Originally Posted by Sub_Sgt

Blair will lie from start to finish and nothing of any consequence will happen to him for lying.

I am afraid that I have to disagree with your there Sub Sgt. For Blair to lie he has to actually say something and string together a complete sentence. I expect a session of question : non-answer and for people to be more confused at the end than a confused person who has been to confused academy.

Agreed Auld-Yin.

Visions of Blair sat in front of the mirror preparing for his session in the morning.

Wonder what Blair will be putting his hands together for this evening?

Whitewash, whitewash, whitewash - expensive whitewash.

Brown is simply an inept blundering fool out of his depth. Bliar was a calculating, self-obsessed, opportunistic 'wanabee', who lacks the guts to sack Brown for being an incompetent, ill-tempered oaf!