A lot of people accepted that the war was necessary because the Prime Minister of the UK said that it was necessary.

They were being misled by Blair, Brown and New Labour but that dues not mean that they were wrong to put the safety of the citizens of the UK as their first priority!

I have a problem with the Lib Dems voting against a war which we were told was necessary for the security and safety of the people of the UK.

If Blair was telling the truth about the need for war then the Lib Dems were not putting the security of the UK as their first priority!

The fact that Blair, Brown and New Labour were misleading us about the importance of war to defend our country, does not detract from the fact that the Liberal Democrats chose not to take steps to protect the UK from being targeted by Iraq.

So the Iraq enquiry may last into 2011. Does that surprise me? NO!

Gordon Brown was the chancellor whilst the Labour government under Blair was pushing the country to go to war in Iraq. From memory, Brown stayed very quiet on the subject of going to war.  He kept out of the public view and I don't remember him giving any statements supporting going to war.

Blair gave a number of justifications for going to war. They were all very weak, as far as I was concerned, and if they were now given as an excuse to going to war then I believe the people in the UK would not accept such weak justifications for war!

I believe, it's my view folks!, that Blair saw himself as some sort of world saviour and 'freeing' Iraq from Saddam was part of some vision of greatness that he had. Remember that Blair had taken our soldiers to war in other countries before Iraq!

I would guess that the last thing Brown wants now in the build up to the next election is for the people of the UK to see that the justification for the Iraq war was almost non-existant. I don't actually believe that Saddam ever had any weapons that could threaten the UK. The '40 minutes to being bombed' was never anything that could have been done by Iraq.

The fact that a high school paper that had been on the internet for quite a while, was then claimed as the 'intelligence' that exposed what Saddam was up to, was just a con trick on the British people!

Remember when Blair had tanks at Heathrow and around London? Why were they there?  In my view it was simply to scare the British public into accepting his claims that we had to go to war!

The result of Blair's actions? The UK is now threatened by Islamic terrorists. We have to have extra security in place at all times in our country.  The actions of New Labour under Blair were, in my view, the reason why this has happened.

It's my view that Gordon Brown cannot afford a  really open  and full inquiry. He could not afford to have the enquiry results before the next election!