General Sir Michael Rose calls for Blair to be Impeached *UPDATED WITH AUDIO*
From correspondents in London
January 08, 2006
A LEADING British Army officer believes Prime Minister Tony Blair should be impeached for his role in the war in Iraq, the Mail on Sunday reported.
General Sir Michael Rose, a former UN commander in Bosnia, was quoted by the right-of-centre Mail on Sunday 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."
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, he added.
"I would not have gone to war on such flimsy grounds," he said.
The newspaper said the comments were made during a television documentary to be aired on Channel Four television on Friday.
"Impeached"
Now there's a word we haven't heard enough of recently on this side of the Atlantic...
UPDATE:
There is an audio clip, from Radio4 here
[Hat Tip to Craig Murray]
Good old Mike; another one
Good old Mike; another one who was never the same after ops in the Former Yugoslavia, a list you can add me and the well know pop singer James Blunt to as well...
We don't hear it enough here
We don't hear it enough here in the U.S. either. The Chimperor and Darth Cheney need to go.