Iraq Follow

TONY BLAIR is following one fake inquiry with another. He thought that Hutton's report would let him off the hook. But within hours of its publication the whitewash had provoked a huge backlash. Now Blair has announced another inquiry-this time into "intelligence" on Iraqi weapons.

I'M CONSIGNING the Hutton report to my stock of dodgy dossiers. I want to go over the lies the government told to show that this wasn't just about one report by the BBC. The whole government case for the war on Iraq was flawed. After 11 September 2001, to get support for the war in Afghanistan, Tony Blair said in Oman, "There will be no war on Iraq unless we show there is conclusive evidence that links it with 11 September."

THE PEACE Not War group is organising four nights of music and arts next week on the anniversary of last year's global protests against the war on Iraq. It takes place from Thursday 12 February-Sunday 15 February at the Hackney Ocean, 270 Mare Street, Hackney, east London (nearest station Hackney Central).

NOT ONLY the political fallout, but the war itself in Iraq is continuing.

Only friends of US will get a vote in Iraq BUSH AND Blair claimed their war on Iraq was a fight for democracy. Yet the US won't allow free elections to take place in Iraq.

Country music icon Willie Nelson has just written a protest song against the war in Iraq. He hopes it will stir the passions in those who hear it.

NEW LABOUR has lost the argument over the war on Iraq. Blair admitted that last week when he said weapons of mass destruction may never be found.

A RECENT headline in the Financial Times read, \"Blair No Longer In Control On Two Fronts\". The two fronts are the Iraq war, in particular the Hutton report, and the vote that will take place shortly on top-up fees for universities.

ALL THOSE who oppose the US war on Iraq should try to get to a performance of the play Pugilist Specialist. Performed by US theatre ensemble Riot Group, the play has just begun an extensive tour of Britain and Ireland.

BUSH AND Blair were crowing this week following the capture of Saddam Hussein. They claim it justifies their war on Iraq. It does nothing of the kind. That war killed at least 20,000 Iraqis.

A DELEGATION of nine relatives of US soldiers has gone to Iraq to find out what is going on for themselves.