President George W. Bush And Regime Change In Iraq

EDM number 341 in 2009-10, proposed by Dai Davies on 02/12/2009.
Categorised under the topics of Iraq and Military operations.

That this House notes the candid revelation by Sir David Manning, the former foreign policy advisor to the Prime Minister, at the Iraq inquiry on 30 November 2009 that, in respect of the speech on 12 September 2002 by President George W. Bush to the United Nations on United States policy towards Iraq, shortly after that speech, Dr Rice had telephoned him to say that, in fact, the President had been given the wrong text and that he had had to ad lib this, but fortunately the President had put in the reference to the need to return and to have new UN resolutions to try and resolve this through the UN; is appalled that in such an important decision on which the lives of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were to be dependent, such an incredible error could be made; believes the decision making over Iraq, including the invasion, and the ongoing occupation, have subsequently demonstrated a similar level of incompetence; and calls on all future witnesses at the Iraq inquiry to present an equal level of candour in explaining the real shambles that underpinned allied Iraq policy since 2002.

This motion has been signed by a total of 23 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.