We Create The Reality, You Pay For It

"The intelligence and facts are being fixed around the policy."

This blog has argued many times before now that the Bush and Blair Administrations were fully aware that WMD would not be found in Iraq. Before the leaking of this report, though, it was conceivable (however unlikely) that rather than outright lying, the Administrations were willfully blind to facts that were glaringly obvious to 90% of the World's population.

The leaked memo puts the kibosh on that possibility. Crucially, the memo "hasn't been disavowed by the British government", and while the White House "won't comment", "a former senior U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, called it 'an absolutely accurate description of what transpired'."

Now, all doubts having been removed, for what reason can the responsible parties possibly hope to escape being tried for the commission of War Crimes? Oh, yeah: the powerful don't have to pay consequences for their actions, no matter how despicable.

Posted by Eddie Tews at May 5, 2005 05:15 PM