Posts Tagged “Geoff Hoon”

The Sun has launched its own military awards to salute itself the armed forces.

And they don’t seem too popular.

To add insult to injury, The Sun has named it after the Foreign Secretary and his cabinet minister brother, David and Ed Miliband.

Category number 2 is interesting.
Support to the Armed Forces
The winner of this award will be a civilian - a civil servant, a contractor or just an ordinary member of the public - who has provided invaluable help to the Armed Forces.

Will apologists Geoff Hoon, John Reid or Des Browne get the nod for their unstinting work ensuring essential military equipment was always at hand? Maybe Gordon or even Tony Blair….

with apologies to you-know-who. The name is omitted for the benefit of those searching the web for the genuine article but acknowledgment appears on the image.
For those arriving directly to this post (and not the blog front page), another image is here.

I don’t for a second believe that this is an isolated case.
However, it is unique in that some sort of admission had to be made because a retired US General spilled the beans about Diego Garcia.
Geoff Hoon’s denials and stonewalling look even more contemptible.

Link to Guardian story and more.

Geoff Hoon’s attitude deplored by special committee’s inquiry into the CIA flights. - Link to story.

Well-known for speaking the truth on Iraq and his outstanding non-contribution to the European Parliament’s inquiry on Extraordinary Rendition (”The MEPs singled out Geoff Hoon, the minister for Europe, saying they deplored his attitude to their special committee’s inquiry into the CIA flights.”), Geoff Hoon takes his turn to offer his excuses in an interview with The Guardian.

Geoff Hoon’s attitude deplored by special committee’s inquiry into the CIA flights. - Link to story.