Death and destruction continue in this destabilised country, while British oil corporates and others jostle for contracts:

Felicity Arbuthnot has drawn attention to the petition to Sir John Chilcot

Dear Sir John Chilcot,

Please publish the results of your report without delay and name those who have so far been obstructing its publication.

Why is this important?

In February of 2011, after more than a year of investigation, the Chilcot Inquiry into Britain’s role in the invasion of Iraq concluded. It is outrageous that today, more than three years after the end of the inquiry, the public has still not been given the conclusion.

What is equally reprehensible is, apart from the occasional meek entreatment to Chilcot by some politicians to get on with it, hardly any body of influence seems to be pressing for the results to be finalised and published.

The day Britain began its attack on Iraq was one of the blackest days in the history of our nation because, despite massive public opposition, our Government, with the full support of the opposition, went ahead with the invasion, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent men women and children and a major increase in terrorism.

To their eternal disgrace, there are many in the ‘establishment’ and in political circles who supported the attack and in whose interest it is to keep kicking the report into the long grass.

Consequently, the only group who can try and bring about publication of the report is us. I would therefore like 38 Degrees, through its members, to campaign and pressurise Chilcot into releasing the report immediately. We must show that we will not be treated as inconsequential bystanders and be ignored and humoured as though we are simply an annoyance. We must force those we elect and nominate, to do the job we pay them to do and not simply make up their own forever changing timetable.

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Four of the latest reasons given for signing

• This may not turn out to be the definitive whole truth but three years is more than long enough to be kept waiting for the next brick in the wall. Publish and be damned!!

• People who forget their past repeat the same bloody mistakes.

• We all need to be reminded that the only reason for bloody conflicts in the world is the arrogance and greed of the military-industrial complex and lust for power of corrupted politicians. Especially now, when NATO is pushing for blood in Eastern Europe.

• Those who voted for the Iraq war should never have been allowed to hold public office again.

Sign here.

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