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 Top UK General Calls for Blair's Impeachment over Iraq 
  
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 excerpted from Abunimah News - Jan 9, 2006 
  
 Agence France Presse - 8 January 2006 
  
 Top armyman wants Blair impeached 
  
 LONDON: 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," he added. 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 stated. 
  
 The newspaper said the comments were made during a television documentary to 
 be aired on Channel Four television on Friday. Martin Bell, BBC television's 
 former war correspondent who made the film -- Iraq: The Failure of War -- 
 appeared to back the general, writing in the Mail on Sunday that it was 
 "reasonable" to blame the politicians. 
  
 "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," said Bell, who is a former independent member of 
 parliament. Rose's opinion revives a call made in November 2004 when 23 MPs 
 filed a motion to impeach Blair on charges of "gross misconduct" over the 
 US-led invasion. 
  
 Although it fell by the wayside despite attempts by Welsh and Scottish 
 nationalists to revive it during the general election last May, it was the 
 first such bid to impeach a prime minister in 198 years. 
  
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