Whoops, I invaded Iraq
Mr Bush admits his Iraq intelligence was wrong. Now he needs to take the next step and admit that he had reason to believe it was wrong, because he was told that it was, and then he can be impeached.Let's not stop there. Tony Blair's days are numbered, but I'm not alone in wanting to see them ended in disgrace.
Bush's lies are quite hard to nail. Many times he hinted or suggested, and was not specific. But Blair was. He said that Saddam had weapons 45 minutes from British targets (and had to weasel this down from the hint that he was talking about mainland UK, preposterously, to targets in Cyprus). This was a clear lie. Even if Saddam had had the weapons he was accused of, which at the time was at the very best doubtful, the intelligence based as it was on the uncorroborated ramblings of a drunken defector who would have sold his mother for a drink, he certainly had no capability to deliver them against British targets in Cyprus or anywhere else. At the height of his powers, he had had a few Scuds, just about capable of hitting Tel Aviv at the very outside of their range. Blair knew, as did we all, that the Americans were confident they had taken out Saddam's Scud capability, and it turned out they had.
posted by Dr Zen @ 8:34 am
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