AS anticipated we now have the cop-out clause from Sir John Chilcott that he’s only prepared to publish the ‘gist’ of that staunch socialist, Anthony Charles Lynton Blair’s correspondence with his Republican Brokeback Mountain buddy Bush on the Iraq issue.

As self-elected World’s policeman, with the authority to gatecrash the sovereignty of any subordinate State, at any given time, we already knew Uncle Sam would not comply in the inquiry on the veracity of invasion.

My dictionary definition of the word ‘gist’ (in law), states that it’s ‘the REAL point of an action’, so why are Blair’s messages made sacrosanct?

Both he and Bush were merely humble public servants who overruled the will of the people they were meant to represent and should accordingly be made accountable for their actions in a court of law.

Perhaps our ‘International Community’ friends in the Hague could accommodate, as they have done so readily in the cases of Milosevic and at the time of writing, those invisible men, Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic.

Mind you, I wouldn’t hold our breath!

JAMES MARTIN, Cowdenbeath.