Thursday 26 November 2009

And Still Only Two Days In

My six thousandth post.

We are only two days in, and already we have "learned" that (for the benefit of the American market) there was no link to 9/11, that there were no WMD, and that Saddam Hussein would have been toppled by an internal coup anyway.

The one and only argument advanced for British participation in the Iraq War was the existence of Iraqi WMD (not a "programme") capable of deployment within 45 minutes against the British bases on Cyprus. No one bothered to ask why Iraq would want to attack those bases, and in any case the whole thing was totally false.

Lord Butler sat and waited for a journalist to ask The Question, and was left dumbfounded when none of the spineless hired help did so. But some of them seem to have grown backbones since then. Why don't the rest?

And why doesn't everyone who admires the American neoconservatives ask what it is about them that makes them so attractive to Tony Blair, of all people? If he loves them so much, then why do you? Are you hoping for some of the vast wealth that he has acquired, and is continuing to acquire? That is the real story: Blair's blood money. When is there going to be an inquiry into that?

11 comments:

  1. Will you be posting this to your Telegraph blog? You seem awfully reluctant to discuss it.

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  2. It's off-topic.

    I have already published a version of this over in The American Conservative.

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  3. Too big for London now, needs Arlington, Va., the right-wing end of Washington, D.C.

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  4. His Telegraph account still works.

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  5. And is still widely read in the Telegraph family. He hasn't gone away.

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  6. I mean it - on-topic only.

    Honestly, a story as big as this and these are all the comments that anyone can find! The pro-war Blair-lovers, at least, stand as condemned as their hero.

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  7. Non-Telegraph Hack26 November 2009 at 17:42

    OK, on topic. You have found a better niche on a very antiwar, social conservative paper with big doubts about capitalism. The Post-Right bit is edited by Freddy Gray, Literary Editor of TAC, who writes the America column in the Catholic Herald, where the Features Editor is Telegraph blogger Ed West and the Editor-in-Chief is Telegraph Online Editor Damian Thompson. No wonder the Telegraph lot still read you. Interesting that your account still works.

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  8. Oh, well, that's halfway there, I suppose. Only comments that are strictly about the post will be put up from now on.

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  9. You certainly seem to have no shortage of Facebook friends in the Telegraph family. But on topic, have you seen Neil Clark's post about David Aaronovitch owing Tony Benn an apology for remarks made about Benn's interview with Saddam?

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  10. I'll have a look. As should everyone else, I'm sure.

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