Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Tony Blair continues to not apologise for his mistakes with regards to the War Against Iraq. He has in the past and continues to apologise for the intelligence being wrong. Yesterday Jack Straw formally withdrew the 45 minutes claim. But BLiar is apologising for something that is not wrong. He is saying the intelligence on Iraq's WMD capabilities were wrong, they weren't. As we know through information released to the public via The Hutton Inquiry and the Butler Inquiry the information the intelligence agencies had was absolutely right: Iraq had neither the weapons or the capability to produce them. What BLiar won't, and politically cannot, apologise for, is the manipulation of this data between the intelligence services and the 10 Downing Street produced dossier. The evidence of Government manipulation in both cases was so blatant that in both cases the establishment men doing the investigating had to carefully limit their terms of reference so they wouldn't have to admit the Government had lied to the people it was supposed to work for.
And now we have BLiar trying to say it's all all right because the final UN report showed Saddam Hussein wanted to develop WMD again some day. He and Straw say the report shows that UN sanctions weren't working, despite the fact that the fact they didn't have any WMD after ten years of sanctions would seem to prove the complete opposite. It comes down to an insistance the war was valid because, if the world was completely different and if there had never been any UN sanctions against Iraq, then Saddam Hussein would want to have WMD. Thousands of Iraqis have been killed, not because of the way the world is, but the way it would be if everything was different.
And now we have BLiar trying to say it's all all right because the final UN report showed Saddam Hussein wanted to develop WMD again some day. He and Straw say the report shows that UN sanctions weren't working, despite the fact that the fact they didn't have any WMD after ten years of sanctions would seem to prove the complete opposite. It comes down to an insistance the war was valid because, if the world was completely different and if there had never been any UN sanctions against Iraq, then Saddam Hussein would want to have WMD. Thousands of Iraqis have been killed, not because of the way the world is, but the way it would be if everything was different.
