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Oh, yeah, that rule that in UK courts no one can refuse to testify. Here, we have 5th Amendment protection that you don't have to bear witness against yourself, which extends to the marriage privilege. There is also the priest's privilege and the privileged nature of attorney/client communications (those probably exist in England, right, Donut?)
Anyway, any lawyer would think of the tactic of calling every administration official to the stand and parading them around to make a nice circus. Won't happen, though. As for the crimes Saddam committed against his people, they really don't have relevant information, so a court won't require Billy-Boy & Co. to hop a plane for Iraq.
I'm sure some of you would like them to all testify, just as some would love to see the full panopoly of administration officials spend 1 week each in front of the 9-11commision. At some point, don't we recognize that these people have a job to do while not making courtroom appearances to appease us all? I mean, there is a country to run.
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