{"id":122273,"date":"2014-06-03T04:02:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T04:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=122273"},"modified":"2014-06-03T04:07:54","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T04:07:54","slug":"war-criminal-tony-blair-sidesteps-call-iraq-note-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/war-criminal-tony-blair-sidesteps-call-iraq-note-release\/","title":{"rendered":"War Criminal Tony Blair Sidesteps Call For Iraq Note Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">The tight-lipped former prime minister said questions about the Chilcot inquiry were \u201cfor another day\u201d as he was grilled by reporters after a speech on Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Campaigners have criticised as a whitewash the decision to limit publication to \u201cquotes or gists.\u201d The mother of one soldier killed in the conflict has also lambasted Mr Blair.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Rose Gentle, whose 19-year-old son Gordon was killed in Iraq in June 2004, said she was \u201csickened\u201d by the decision to only publish selected sections and believed Mr Blair would \u201cwalk away from it with a smile on his face.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit;\">Negotiations over the publication of the \u201cvital\u201d 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morningstaronline.co.uk\/a-a02b-Tony-Blair-sidesteps-call-for-Iraq-note-release\/a-a02b-Tony-Blair-sidesteps-call-for-Iraq-note-release#.U41IyfldX9U\" target=\"_blank\">Morning Star<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201cfor another day\u201d as he was grilled by reporters after a speech on Europe. Campaigners have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1622,1615,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-122273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-uk-news","9":"category-war-terrorism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}