Saturday, July 10, 2004
Bush in the clear after Senate investigation blames it all on the CIA and America's allies. However, there's been no investigation by this committee of the parallel intelligence unit set up by Donald Rumsfeld and his friends to produce the intelligence needed to justify going to war. Most of which came from sources which, like former favourite Ahmad Chalabi, have shown to be a load of rubbish.
Meanwhile there's bubbling sense of excitement about what the Butler report will have to say about the British side of things. Following the farrago that was the Hutton Inquiry ("My role in this inquiry, as I see it, is to decide whether the Government is innocent or whether the BBC is guilty") my hopes aren't high that another establishment figure will lay any blame at the Government's door. The Lib Dems and, IIRC, the Tories withdrew early on in the process. Now, it's a valid criticism to make that they saw that it was unlikely to attack the Government but it's most likely that the Butler report will say the same as it's US's equivelent, it's not Blair/Bush's fault if the information was incorrect. We shouldn't have expected them to demand that MI6/the CIA get information that was accurate and up-to-date, it's OK that Allied troops and thousands of Iraqi civilians were killed because Blair and Bush accepted information that they wanted to believe was right.
So we should all jolly well stop moaning like a bunch of pinko liberals and get back to what's really important. Deciding who's going to win Big Brother.
Meanwhile there's bubbling sense of excitement about what the Butler report will have to say about the British side of things. Following the farrago that was the Hutton Inquiry ("My role in this inquiry, as I see it, is to decide whether the Government is innocent or whether the BBC is guilty") my hopes aren't high that another establishment figure will lay any blame at the Government's door. The Lib Dems and, IIRC, the Tories withdrew early on in the process. Now, it's a valid criticism to make that they saw that it was unlikely to attack the Government but it's most likely that the Butler report will say the same as it's US's equivelent, it's not Blair/Bush's fault if the information was incorrect. We shouldn't have expected them to demand that MI6/the CIA get information that was accurate and up-to-date, it's OK that Allied troops and thousands of Iraqi civilians were killed because Blair and Bush accepted information that they wanted to believe was right.
So we should all jolly well stop moaning like a bunch of pinko liberals and get back to what's really important. Deciding who's going to win Big Brother.
