Will the Chilcot report put Blair in prison?

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And so it will finally come to pass. The long-awaited Chilcot inquiry into the war crimes of Tony Blair – sorry, I mean the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq War – is due to be published on July 6th. Itā€™s only taken about seven years to get to the bottom of what we already know, that the war was illegal and based on a tissue of lies.
Running at more than 2.6 million words, the report should at least fill in a lot of details, such as the names of all those involved in the build-up and exactly how they contributed to the biggest British foreign policy balls-up of the last hundred years.
My fingers are crossed that the criticism of Blair, Bush and others will be so excoriating that war crime proceedings will commence immediately.
I pray nightly to the gods of justice and fair play that the horrid pair will be dragged kicking and screaming into a prison cell. However, I think there are only two chances of that happening: slim and none.
Sure, there will be criticism of the governmentā€™s serious shortcomings and lots of hand wringing about ā€œthe lessons to be learnedā€ (how about, donā€™t lie to the public?), but I doubt it will result in any serious action taking place. I hope I am proved wrong, but I fear the report wonā€™t be worth the paper itā€™s printed on.

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