Roll up for the Hutton sideshow
A lot is going to be written about Hutton, his inquiry and his report. I think Seumas Milne in the Guardian caught the right note. Hutton was a whitewash, that much is clear, and it's laughable that it should be, because we can all read the evidence for ourselves. But for all that, it's not the main event.
That's the inquiry we haven't had, and now will be very much on the agenda. And if the government don't set it up, it's going to happen, messily, in the media, and in the homes and pubs of the UK (and elsewhere).
Blair, one can only suppose, feels he is off the hook, that Hutton has fully exonerated him. Certainly his speech to the Commons gave the impression he believed that those who had called him a liar must now apologise. But Hutton didn't prove he wasn't a liar, or that the reasons he gave for going to war were valid. Hutton didn't even ask about that.
This poll shows what the people ICM asked think of that. We know who the liars are, it seems, regardless of what their tame judges say.
posted by Dr Zen @ 12:18 am
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