More Calls For Tony Blair To Face Legal Action

Tony Blair gives a press conference after the release of the Chilcot report

The families of troops killed in the Iraq War criticise the former prime minister after the Chilcot Report.
Calls are growing for Tony Blair to face prosecution over the lead-up to the Iraq war, following the Chilcot Inquiry's report yesterday.

 The former prime minister was revealed to have told then US President George W Bush "I will be with you whatever", eight months before British troops were sent into the troubled country in 2003.

 The report also found that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein posed "no imminent threat", that Mr Blair had relied on "flawed" intelligence and that diplomatic options had not been exhausted by the time the invasion began.
Reg Keys, whose son Tom died in Iraq, said it was clear that Mr Blair had "deliberately misled" the country.

 Roger Bacon, whose son Matthew was killed by a roadside bomb, said families of the 179 who died in the conflict reserved the right "to call specific parties to answer for their actions in the courts".

 Sarah O'Connor, whose brother Bob died when a military plane was shot down near Baghdad in 2005, described Mr Blair as "the world's worst terrorist".

Shadow cabinet minister Paul Flynn said that prosecution of Mr Blair should be "seriously considered" but Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn stopped short of making the same call.

While the Chilcot Report contained "serious criticisms", it showed that "there were no lies, Parliament and the Cabinet were not misled, there was no secret commitment to war, intelligence was not falsified and the decision was made in good faith", it said.
Mr Blair remained defiant in the face of the reports accusations, spending two hours speaking at a press conference during which he said he would make the same decision again if presented with the same information about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.

He insisted that he could look the families and the nation in the eye but added that he took responsibility for "mistakes in planning and process" identified in the report and felt "more sorrow, regret and apology than you may ever know" for those whose loved ones had been killed in the war.

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