stipete75

So we the public are allowed to see 'doctored/censored' transcripts of the conversations between Blair and Bush in the run up to the illegal Iraq invasion.
What are they trying to hide?

Martin2005

Personally I wanted everything out in the open, which is obviously not going to happen. As I understand it, there has been a lot of resistance from Whitehall and the White House on this. The good news is that the enquiry has had full access to all relevant communications between Bush and Blair, so those conversations will weigh heavily in the enquiry’s final report.
It will be very interesting to see/read their overall findings based upon these communications and the reams of other evidence they have had. There is generally a high regard for Chilcott and his panel, they are good people who will report the facts as they see them.
The problem is that whatever they find, people will now have an excuse to say ‘cover-up’, which totally undermines the whole point of the enquiry

Alan Jeffery

It's all pointless anyway. If there's something someone doesn't want you to know, they aren't going to tell are they? Whatever question is asked, you'd only get half an answer.
The bottom line is the Western powers wanted an armed presence in the Middle East and Saddam's mouthing off gave them all the excuse they needed.
Did they do wrong? in hindsight it doesn't look good, but in the days after 9/11 it was all about taking the fight somewhere else. Certainly no government out there fancied taking the Yanks on while they were parked on their doorstep in Humvees.

Turbohot

TBH people have worked it all out with their own imagination years ago. We all know that both of them were in love with each other. What else do we want to know?

Tony B is well supporting this upcoming public disclosure, because he has played well since his departure as a PM. His opposition party has no issue with him, and he's not bothered what public think of him. I think he'll live on. No one can do anything about Bush, as he lives in America.