Iraq war inquiry will hear evidence in secret, Miliband hints to MPs

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Source: The Guardian

• Hearing may come sooner than had been expected
• Falklands investigation could provide model

David Miliband gave a strong hint yesterday that the long-awaited inquiry into the Iraq war will hear evidence in private when it is set up later this year.

Though the government had been expected to announce an inquiry for later this year, yesterday was the first time the foreign secretary had said it would not wait for all British troops to come home.

Speaking in a debate in the Commons, Miliband said that the inquiry would be set up after the majority of British combat troops depart from Iraq at the end of July, leaving fewer than 400 to take part in training.

Without giving details of the nature of the inquiry, he spoke of the "advantage" of having one conducted along the lines of the Franks inquiry set up after the Falklands war.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/mar/26/iraq-inquiry-david-miliband

[dipsydoodle]

1. I reminded of

Les Mis.

......Isn't worth me spit!
`Comforter, philosopher' and lifelong shit!
Cunning little brain, regular Voltaire
Thinks he's quite a lover but there's not much there
What a cruel trick of nature landed us with such a louse
God knows how we've lasted living with that bastard in the house.

[go west young man]

2. Are you in reference to Blair or Bush? Although they are equally

complicit. I'm sure neithers quite the lover. Much more along the lines of destroyers of things. ;)

[dipsydoodle]

4. They're both

nasty little shits. That was the only thing which immediately came to mind using that expression. :)

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. We may as well call it the 'Whitewash Inquiry' up front

and be honest about what it will do. Secret evidence will allow them to claim that the public don't know the whole picture, intelligence evidence looked sound, no-one meant to mislead, blah, blah, blah.

[go west young man]

5. Kick.