A Case to Answer - A first report on the potential impeachment of the Prime Minister for High Crimes and Misdemeanours in relation to the invasion of Iraq. LONDON (Reuters) - Parliamentarians will table a motion on Wednesday demanding a debate on Prime Minister Tony Blair's "gross misconduct" in leading Britain to war against Iraq. The impeachment motion, the first one to be tabled since the mid-19th century, has been signed by 23 members of parliament (MPs) from various opposition parties. But even if a debate is granted, any attempt to accuse Blair of "high crimes and misdemeanors" is doomed to fail in the elected House of Commons, where his Labour party has a majority of more than 150 seats. "We must make a stand or watch the democracy that we have fought for so often against foreign enemies be subverted from within," Welsh nationalist MP Adam Price said. "The rules of constitutional conduct have been brushed aside. The cabinet table has been replaced with the sofa ... and the facts replaced with 'belief'." Price started a campaign during the summer to have Blair impeached, unveiling a 99-page report titled "A Case to Answer" that set out the legal case. Sources in his party, Plaid Cymru, said they would be pressing for a full parliamentary debate in January...
Wow ... this is going to be such a non-story. I say let's wait until March next year and then all of us out here in the electorate can "impeach" Blair.
I actually find the document MUCH more interesting than the story, but one accompanied the other, so there it is.