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Mail on Sunday
09/01/06 - News section
Call to impeach Blair over Iraq war
Tony Blair should be impeached over the Iraq war, a former senior soldier said.
General Sir Michael Rose, former UN commander in Bosnia, said the Prime Minister had to be held to account.
"Certainly from a soldier's perspective there can't be any more serious decision taken by a prime minister than declaring war," he said.
"And then to go to war on what turns out to be false grounds is something that no one should be allowed to walk away from."
General Sir Michael told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that Mr Blair's actions were "somewhere in between" getting the politics wrong and actually acting illegally.
"The politics was wrong, that he rarely declared what his ultimate aims were, as far as we can see, in terms of harping continually on weapons of mass destruction when actually he probably had some other strategy in mind.
"And secondly, the consequences of that war have been quite disastrous both for the people of Iraq and also for the west in terms of our wider interests in the war against global terror."
The general accepted Parliament had endorsed the war, but he said that was because the Prime Minister had stressed the weapons of mass destruction argument.
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