A stark contrast to the US where those who launched the Iraq war and instituted torture are deemed unprosecutable, immune from public accountability and many of them given platforms as if they have nothing to account for and nothing to apologize for.
Blair did well; and nothing probably will come from it; but just forcing these officials to defend themselves in public after a war that was and is a fiasco is itself a sign of a healthy democracy.
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