Sunday, January 25, 2004
The 50 lies, exaggerations, distortions and half truths that took this country to war.
Meanwhile, Blair is still insisting that there are actual WMD in Iraq rather than just programs. I don't know whether this is stupid pig-headedness or rather canny, by the time that an exhaustive search of Iraq could be completed Blair will be in the Margaret Thatcher Nursing Home for the Permanently Baffled Ex-Politician, if still capable of rational speech he can easily say "Well yes, but by the time the search was done the WMD had been long destroyed, but they were there when we invaded. Can I have a new bedpan please?" I don't think it's unfair to judge Blair and Bush NOW on the fact that to date neither weapons nor any kind of program more concrete than Iraqi generals saying "Wouldn't it be nice if we could somehow make or buy WMD?" have been discovered SO FAR because the clear implication of their speeches before we invaded was that we'd be tripping over the stuff once we invaded Baghdad. All this 'Well Iraq is a very big place' guff is precisely that, Iraq was supposed to have been heavily monitored by the intelligence agencies of at least two countries, I don't believe that we could not have, on day one after fighting had finished, have gone to where they were being hid if they existed at all. There is no need to be patient on this.
Meanwhile, Blair is still insisting that there are actual WMD in Iraq rather than just programs. I don't know whether this is stupid pig-headedness or rather canny, by the time that an exhaustive search of Iraq could be completed Blair will be in the Margaret Thatcher Nursing Home for the Permanently Baffled Ex-Politician, if still capable of rational speech he can easily say "Well yes, but by the time the search was done the WMD had been long destroyed, but they were there when we invaded. Can I have a new bedpan please?" I don't think it's unfair to judge Blair and Bush NOW on the fact that to date neither weapons nor any kind of program more concrete than Iraqi generals saying "Wouldn't it be nice if we could somehow make or buy WMD?" have been discovered SO FAR because the clear implication of their speeches before we invaded was that we'd be tripping over the stuff once we invaded Baghdad. All this 'Well Iraq is a very big place' guff is precisely that, Iraq was supposed to have been heavily monitored by the intelligence agencies of at least two countries, I don't believe that we could not have, on day one after fighting had finished, have gone to where they were being hid if they existed at all. There is no need to be patient on this.
