How About The Chilcot Inquiry Asking British Hacks: What’s Wrong With You?

December 24, 2009

R.F. Wilson writes: After the Christmas recess the Chilcot inquiry into the circumstances of Britain invading Iraq in 2003, alongside the United States, is going to summon more former and current government officials, ex-diplomats and aides and advisors, to ask them questions about the way the country was dragged into an illegal war. The highlight will be the appearance of former Prime Minister Tony Blair. The inquiry is not really expected to produce any shocking revelations, as everyone knows already that the war was started on false pretences by Blair and his clique.But one question remains open: how could it have happened that the British media had allowed Blair&Co such an easy ride on the eve of the war? How could it have occurred that the only test for the then government was the laughable storm in a tea cup, created by the BBC’s assertion that the Iraqi file, used to convince parliament that war against Iraq was an act of ‘self-defence’, was ‘sexed up’? At a time when officials at 10 Downing Street were basically rewriting intelligence reports and including false data in them, to call it ‘sexing up’ was a bit mild, to say the least.

The behaviour of the British media in the wake of the war was a disgrace. Instead of investigating the situation and digging up facts that could have thrown light on the conspiracy inside the government to drag the country into a no-win war, the British press was simply observing events. There was Blair, lying through his teeth, and the hacks were just reporting what he was saying. When nearly two million people hit the streets of London in 2003, to protest against the upcoming invasion, the press did not make a big song and dance about it. What do these people know, the hacks were saying. They are just members of the confused public.

When Blair started his disgraceful link-up with President George Bush and plotting the war in Iraq, the British media behaved as if nothing substantial was happening. So what: a Labour Prime Minister was sucking up to a Republican President, planning an illegal war to please Washington, so that later he could ask for return favours and make some serious money out of it. I don’t understand why is it that everyone in Britain still pretends that they cannot understand the main reason why Blair went to war in Iraq? It was all about money. Nothing else. Money is what makes Blair and his brood tick. He was in politics for the money in the first place.

So if I were leading the Chilcot inquiry, I would start summoning hacks at some point and giving them a rough time. I would ask them how could it have happened that they did not do their job properly? And I would even go as far as asking the hacks how they let Blair and his people at 10 Downing Street get off the hook with the cash for peerages scandal. That was bigger than Watergate, because the money was used to buy the 2005 general election. The Labour party then was broke and it would have lost to the Tories, especially as Blair was deeply for starting the war in Iraq.

The British media has questions to answer about its role in the war in Iraq. And it is time to ask these questions.

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