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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20110202/tuk-iraq-regime-change-was-not-govt-poli-45dbed5.html
Iraq
Regime Change 'Was Not Govt Policy'
2
Feb 2011
Former
foreign secretary Jack Straw has told the Iraq Inquiry that regime change
was not the Government's policy.
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- from 7 Mch 2003 and 27 Feb 2003 (a month before) the illegal, criminal
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Mr
Straw told the hearing he warned then-prime minister Tony Blair before
the invasion that it would be "palpably illegal" for Britain
to use regime change as a justification.
But he did
admit recommending Mr Blair read an MI6 paper which set out a "road
map for regime change".
Mr Straw's
private secretary wrote back to the then-head of MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove:
"He (Straw) thought the two papers very perceptive and hopes that
the prime minister reads them."
Mr Straw
was asked by Inquiry Member Sir Roderic Lyne why he was commending a paper
which promoted regime change when he had publicly stated that the removal
of Saddam was not UK policy.
"I'm
very curious you didn't react to the second paper by saying, 'Regime change
cannot be an objective for UK foreign policy,'" Sir Roderic Lyne
asked Mr Straw.
Mr Straw
replied: "As secretary of state, I would
have read these papers late at night and scribbled on them,
'These are very perceptive, make sure Number 10 see them.'
"That
would have been translated into an official note from my private secretary.
That does not mean I've endorsed the policy within those papers."
Mr Straw
is appearing before the Iraq Inquiry for the third time. During his first
round of evidence, he said the decision to endorse military action in
Iraq was the hardest he had ever made.
Mr Straw
responded to suggestions from other witnesses that the Cabinet were not
privy to key discussions and documents in the run-up to the invasion.
"They
(the Cabinet) would have had to be deaf, dumb and blind not to know. I
don't think any member of the Cabinet wouldn't have been aware that military
action could follow," he told the inquiry.
Public hearings
in the 18-month long inquiry have ended. The committee hopes to publish
its findings in the coming few months.
FROM:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20110202/tuk-iraq-regime-change-was-not-govt-poli-45dbed5.html
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