Dear Friend,

At the end of August 2004, Members of Parliament in Britain joined together to start a process that could lead to the impeachment of Prime Minister Blair “for High Crimes and Misdemeanours in relation to the invasion of Iraq”.

The MPs from different parties published a report setting out “compelling evidence of deliberate repeated distortion, seriously misleading statements and culpable negligence on the part of the Prime Minister. This misconduct is in itself more than sufficient to require his resignation…The core conclusion of this report is that the impeachment of the Prime Minister has a strong basis in fact, and established precedent in parliamentary law.” A copy of the full report on impeachment is available on the web (www.impeachblair.org). If you need a printed copy, this is available from Spokesman Books.

If you find the argument for impeachment persuasive, and would like to support the campaign, you can register your support at  www.impeachblair.org, and lobby your MP, of whatever political persuasion, for support for the Parliamentary debate on impeachment.

The report throws light on a whole series of compelling details on the road to war. For example, it examines how the Prime Minister dismissed the Iraqi declaration of all aspects of its programme to develop nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, submitted in December 2002 in compliance with UN resolution 1441. On 25 February 2003, the Prime Minister told the House of Commons : “On 8 December he submitted the declaration denying he had any WMD, a statement that not a single member of the international community seriously believes.” What was omitted, if no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq?

The fate of the Iraqi declaration is discussed at length in Empire No More!, a new book by Ken Coates. Details of the new issue of The Spokesman, entitled From Tom Paine to Guantanamo, which includes an extract from the statement of Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal and Rhuhel Ahmed on their “Detention in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay”, can be found at the Spokesman Books website.

Yours sincerely,

Ken Coates                      Tony Simpson