They showed satellite images of a cargo truck with a primitive chimney  protruding from the roof, that proved it was one of Saddam's mobile WMD plants on the go.

 

January 29, 2010 (Hamsayeh.Net) - Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair stood before a British court of inquiry today. Blair has been brought to the court for knowingly misleading his own nation to an unjustified war against another state contrary to the international rules. 

 

The inquiry led by a British judge Sir John Chilcot, aims at examining UK’s involvement in Iraq. Earlier, former British foreign minister Jack Straw appeared before the court. Straw clarified his own position regarding the war inquiry. He said he warned about the illegality of waging a war on Iraq, but Tony Blair who seemed to have made up his mind in coordination with the former US President George Bush dismissed his warnings. 

 

Bush and Blair insisted that the regime of Saddam Hussein hid some nuclear weapons somewhere in Iraq. They even claimed that the former Iraqi regime was hiding nuclear warheads inside Saddam Hussein’s Palaces. They showed satellite images of a cargo truck with a primitive chimney  protruding from the roof, that proved it was one of Saddam's mobile weapons of mass destruction plants on the go.

 

Before Blair’s arrival to the inquiry, hundreds of protestors gathered outside and chanted anti-Blair slogans. The protestors shouted, ‘We haven’t come here expecting an apology,’ or ‘Blair lied, thousands died.’

At the inquiry, Blair said following the Sep. 11 events, he became convinced  former regime of Saddam posed a grave danger to the world by giving his homemade weapons of mass destruction to terrorists. ‘If September 11 had not happened, our assessment would have been different. But after September 11, our view and that of the Americans changed, and changed dramatically,’ he said.

 

The war inquiry shows British people still care about their own democracy even though it might only be an staged effort to calm public's anger about Iraqi war in  UK. Still, it would be interesting to know if the United States could also conduct a war inquiry by asking George Bush to explain his own actions in this regard.