The house of cards

When the wind blows… The so-called “Waldorf transcripts”, made by an unknown diplomat over a meeting between Jack Straw and Colin Powell on Feb 5th 2003, suggest that both men were wary about the available evidence about Iraq’s WMD (see here for the Guardian article). This is yet another blast on the house of cards built in support of the war.

The wind just doesn’t die down does it? The ‘intelligence’ that the twisted evil™ Iraq monsters under the command of Arch-villain Saddam were so morally corrupt that they were going to use chemical weapons to defend Baghdad was also a load of old stinking horse shit.

Of course, now that the deed has been done, with the deaths of some 5-10’000 civilians, some 13’500-43’000 soldiers (who have parents and brothers/sisters, aunts and partners remember?), the long term deaths caused by unexploded ordinance, the destruction of the core bureaucratic infrastructure (158 of the 160 buildings were looted and burned), the looting of museums and libraries including priceless artifacts, the wilful vandalism by American soldiers of precious archeological sites, and the general profound human trauma that violence and war brings, Paul Wolfowitz has told us that, well, you know, the Bush Munchkins also did it to remove troops from Saudi Arabia. Couldn’t they just pulled troops from Saudi first?

And if one wants an independent enquiry in which the Government of the UK can be made accountable over this charade, then you may as well forget it. The committee which is the only authorised way to question the intelligence community, is accountable to Tony Blair and not Parliament, and Emperor Blair can veto its recommendations. Watch him duck, watch him dive, watch him spin - but you’ll never catch him…

Posted by Ian at May 31, 2003 01:15 PM | TrackBack §