Re: Tony Blair condemns himself.

Charles Ellson wrote:
On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:32:34 -0800 (PST), HardySpicer
<gyansorova@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


If Blair deliberately misled Parliament, he's in deep sh*t. It isn't
like the US where Bush says,
"Hey it's a nice day - let's bomb Saddam and grab his oil!". Blair
is NOT the commander in Chief, and to declare war, he must have
Parliament's agreement. At least that's how it's meant to work as I
understand it. If it can be shown that he deliberately lied to
Parliament to get their agreement, he is going to have some serious
problems to talk his way out of.

Ok so what are the consequences if he did? A slap on the wrist? If he
was in parliament I suppose they could kick him out.

He is presumably not a "sovereign" (as we have Brenda in that job) and
thus not immune from being invited to discuss his behaviour in the
International Criminal Court in the Hague. There is also a Common Law
offence of "misconduct in a public office" which apparently has a
maximum penalty of imprisonment for life :-
http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2008/11/it-gets-worse.html

In Canada, our then Premier said "uh uh, no, nope nada, non" when it came to
the Iraq excursion. That was a no-brainer. If he had done otherwise, I am
damned sure we canuckistanians would have invoked the non-confidence motion
and gotten rid of him.

- nilita


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