The smoking gun
I told you so will not bring back the hundred thousand dead Iraqis, nor the many dead American soldiers, or the civilians from our side.
It will not bring a word of apology from those on the right who shouted that the left were loonies, traitors because they wouldn't trust our leaders. It will not bring the impeachment of Bush, a war criminal who in any decent world would be facing a very long jail term for the illegal invasion of Iraq. It will not even bring the resignation of Blair, who lied repeatedly to his Cabinet, to Parliament and to the British people, who has the blood of many on his hands, not least of David Kelly, a decent man driven to his death by men who would stop at nothing to get their hands on Iraqi oil.
It will not rebuild Fallujah, or reattach the arms of maimed children. It will not spare Iraq from further bloodshed.
Blair makes himself out to be some sort of clown who was misled by dodgy intelligence. The Rycroft memo tells us that the intelligence was dodgy because the facts were being fixed to bring a war. It tells us that they planned regime change, even though they were clear that it was illegal. It tells us that they knew that Iraq had no weapons.
All of which our angry, unheard, powerless voices cried at the time.
posted by Dr Zen @ 11:23 am
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