Tony Blair's former director of communications, Alastair Campbell, artist Brian Eno - and Sarah O' Connor, whose brother, Sergeant Bob O'Connor, was killed in Iraq, discuss the Chilcot inquiry.
Campbell told an incident in his book: Tony Blair asked Campbell how he should start his speech to sell the Iraq war to the British people, as the cameras were being set up. Campbell replied, "How's, My Fellow Americans..." This is a true story as per Campbell's book, the journal he maintained while in office.
@@adamgrimsley2900 The lie that we (the West) were in dire peril due to Saddam Hussein having chemical weapons. The lie that everyone at the time knew was a lie.
@@emotown1 there have been 4 independent enquires into this claim, with the latest Chilcott, concluding "“There is no evidence that intelligence was improperly included in the dossier or that No 10 improperly influenced the text,” the report concludes."
@@adamgrimsley2900 You must be extremely naive to use a word like "independent" and "enquiry" in the same breath. Anyway, I can see where you're coming from now. Naive.
Time to get Nerdy. If have read Frank Herberts Dune, he warned about the dangers of trusting charismatic leaders. Thinking your salvation will come from any leader is a fantasy. Remember that.
B.E is quite intellectual actually, so surprised he is on chanel4 glad to see him make appearances on tvand should do more often. Hes engaged more and more in political thought as well as humanities, it crosses over into the arts I think if youcross-bridge his musical world with his opinions you will find quite a well informed and enlightened brain behind this man. He is funny too, he embodies the right principles we lack in the mainstream. REAL dare I say, pop figure intellectuals encouraging young people to engage...you should check out some of his recent talks. He also supports Jeremy Corbyn. :-)
This is not a zero-sum game. Before the Arab Spring the Iraqis were enslaved in a Stalinist terror; that's no little thing; they now have democracy, a parliament and an independent judiciary. A million people died in the Iraq Iran war. How many more wars might Saddam have started in thirteen years?
The UK and USA supported Saddam for years and provided him with the green light to attack Iran. Once they had a falling out with Saddam because he wouldn't bow down to them any longer they committed over a decade of war crimes of sanctions which suffocated the life out of innocent Iraqis as whole to teach a lesson to their friend they had fallen out with. If you cannot see how morally bankrupt western leadership is you sir are blind.
@@sadiq7700 saddam hussein being a corrupt, brutal dictator and the iraqi invasion being mishandled leading to unnecessary deaths aren't mutually exclusive concepts.
You mention Stalinist terror , funny how they didnt go to war for democracy in russia , or north korea to abolish communism, america go to war because they have instigated it for their own profit
You can see in his eyes he knows he has been found out.Deaths of children don't bother him,he is hoping to sell a book about how depressed he was.Oh,poor dear,maybe stop bombing people who have no recourse.Shame on you.
'former director of communications'? don't make us all laugh, he was Blair's liar-in-chief. God Bless Dr. Kelly and the 179 British Armed Forces personnel or MOD civilians who perished in the Iraq war.
Sarah your brother chose to join the army, nobody made him. I’m afraid it was his job just like we all go to work. His death is was his responsibility and a bad career choice at best.
You fundamentally miss the point. It is one thing to accept losing a loved one in war but quite another when the case for that war was based on information that is proven to be wrong and where many believe the public and Parliament were mislead and the war itself was potentially illegal. On that basis, she is perfectly entitled to feel that her brother's life was wasted unnecessarily.
