18-03-2013, 09:28 PM
Malcolm Pryce Wrote:'Misled themselves' indeed. What nonsense. Imagine how far you would get with an excuse like that before an income tax inspector. Note, too, how the title of the Panorama programme 'The Spies who fooled the world' perpetuates the myth that Blair and Co. were well-intentioned victims of some cruel hoax. Even now they can't tell it straight.
Yup - found the precise quote I heard on t' wireless this morning...
Quote:Lord Butler, who after the war, conducted the first government inquiry into WMD intelligence, says Mr Blair and the intelligence community "misled themselves".
Lord Butler and Sir Mike agree Mr Blair did not lie, because they say he genuinely believed Saddam Hussein had WMD.
Any one fancy trying that in court?
And they wonder why the public have absolutely no faith or confidence in the political system.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war