Britain's Iraq Inquiry Drags On

Tony Blair has been asked to return before Britain's Iraq inquiry to answer even more questions. It's time for the panel to wrap up their work.

The Guardian reports that former PM Tony Blair will be summoned back to the Chilcot commission to again answer questions about Britain’s role in the invasion of Iraq.

David Cameron should take the opportunity to shut down the Chilcot inquiry.  While that may not be possible, he should at the very least encourage them to wrap up their fine work, submit their report, thank them, and be done with it.  Having Blair return for a further round of questioning is nonsense.

Some things bug me, and one of them is ill-defined "commissions" and "inquiries" which attempt to run the country from the outside and through the conduit of the press, when they manifestly don't have the authority to do so.

What the left really wants is to try Tony Blair for war crimes, but since they can't do that, they'll just keep calling him back for as long as they can get away with it.  It's like a consolation prize.

Thomas J. Marier blogs at Going Noble/a>.  Follow him on Twitter<.