Calls For Impeachment of Blair

General Sir Michael Rose, a former UN commander in Bosnia, is quoted as saying:

"I think the politicians should be held to account ... my view is that Blair should be impeached.

That would prevent the politicians treating quite so carelessly the subject of taking a country into war."

He noted that a high-profile resignation of a senior armed forces officer, before the start of the March 2003 conflict, may also have made the British Government think twice before sending troops to the Gulf.

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"I would not have gone to war on such flimsy grounds".

The comments will be aired on British TV's Channel 4 this Friday.

Martin Bell, BBC television's former war correspondent made the film - Iraq: The Failure of War.

Bell is quoted as saying:

"Ordering the armed forces to war is the most serious decision any government takes. On Iraq it was taken with a degree of nonchalance bordering on negligence."

The failure in Iraq has not been so much the policy of pro-active regime change, but the lack of planning and effective reconstruction in the aftermath of the regime change.