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No great revelations when all's said and done, the Murdoch's have made it very clear that they are not going to play ball until faced with irrefutable evidence.

 

I look forwards to seeing new evidence assuming to the paper shredding and hard drive formatting has left anything further.

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Murdoch is a cunning old fox who only has his own interests at heart.

 

Here's some questions MPs won't ask him-

 

1) In 2002-3 all of your 127 newspapers around the world, with a combined circulation of 40 million a week, supported the Iraq war. We now know you were often in direct contact with the then prime minister Tony Blair. How much coordination was there between Downing Street and News International on the media presentation of what was widely regarded as an illegal war?

 

2) To what extent did he agree with you in private that getting control of the world's second biggest oil reserves was at the heart of the war aims?

 

3)Did your conversation with Tony Blair reveal that the "grandstanding egomaniac" and "damage to the structures of international order" may have been more appropriately applied to him rather than to Chirac?

 

4)Your third phone call with Tony Blair within nine days took place on 19 March 2003, the day before the Iraq war started. What was it about the relationship you had with Tony Blair that made him feel it was appropriate to take a phone call from a newspaper proprietor just hours prior to the most momentous decision a prime minister can make: ordering the country's armed forces to war?

 

5)When the United Nations inspectors under Hans Blix could find no evidence of Iraq having weapons of mass destruction, the coverage in your newspapers bordered on hysteria -- "HE'S GOT 'EM. LET'S GET HIM" screamed the Sun headline. When it was later shown beyond dispute that the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq never existed, did you not feel that News International should have issued an apology for promoting a lie to justify an illegal war?

 

6)You are renowned for putting the interests and the profits of your media empire above all other considerations. What payoff did News International get from Tony Blair for the unqualified support it gave for his illegal war in Iraq?

 

7)Over one million people were killed in Iraq. Another four million were made refugees by the war. The country's infrastructure was so devastated that even today, electricity is rationed for many Iraqis, many still do not have access to clean drinking water or a functioning sewage system, and the health service, which was once the most advanced in the region, now struggles to provide a decent level of care. I79 British soldiers were killed and hundreds more suffered life changing injuries. As a direct result of the war, Britain suffered terrorist atrocities on 7 July 2005, in which 52 people were killed. Does your conscience ever regret the key part that you and your newspapers played in promoting an illegal war which has brought such death and destruction to the Iraqi people, unbearable bereavement to the families of British soldiers sent to kill and be killed for a lie, and increased insecurity, from the threat of terrorist attack, to the people of Britain?

 

http://www.stopwar.org.uk/index.php/iraq/645-10-questions-the-mps-will-not-ask-rupert-murdoch

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His missus is good with her handbag, just seen her lash out at someone who attacked him.

 

I couldn't believe that she was his missus, she must be 40 years younder than him. Perhaps if Mrs Merton were questioning her she would ask:

 

"So Wendy, what was it that attracted you to the billionaire Rupert Murdoch"?

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