RINF via Morning Star
TONY
BLAIR ducked calls yesterday for him to sanction the release of his
exchanges with former US president George Bush in the run-up to the Iraq war.
The
tight-lipped former prime minister said questions about the Chilcot
inquiry were “for another day” as he was grilled by reporters after a
speech on Europe.
Campaigners
have criticised as a whitewash the decision to limit publication to
“quotes or gists.” The mother of one soldier killed in the conflict has
also lambasted Mr Blair.
Rose Gentle, whose 19-year-old son Gordon was killed in Iraq
in June 2004, said she was “sickened” by the decision to only publish
selected sections and believed Mr Blair would “walk away from it with a
smile on his face.”
Negotiations
over the publication of the “vital” material, which includes 25 notes
from Mr Blair to the then US president and more than 130 records of
conversations between them, is understood to have been behind long
delays in publication of the report into the invasion.
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