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realthog ([personal profile] realthog) wrote2010-01-29 10:26 pm

jus' wondering


Tony Blair has today been defending in front of the Chilcott Inquiry his decision to support the invasion of Iraq on the grounds that, after all, the world's a better place without Saddam Hussein.

That this is so is difficult to dispute.

What none of the entirely unbiased members of the Inquiry seems to have thought worth asking is this: Is the world a better place without all of the other one frigging million Iraqis killed in consequence of Blair's self-righteously defended war?

You've got the blood of the innocent on your hands, Blair. When people ask how it got there, don't insult us by answering a different question.

[identity profile] daisytells.livejournal.com 2010-01-30 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
George W. Bush said the same thing -- over and over.

[identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com 2010-01-30 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)

George W. Bush said the same thing -- over and over.

Oh, most certainly so, yes. The difference is that Il Buce is so dumb he actually thinks other people are dumber than he is whereas Bliar is quite manifestly intelligent: he knows that what he's saying is the most dishonest of sophistries.

[identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com 2010-01-30 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
This is definitely the case.

[identity profile] sarcobatus.livejournal.com 2010-01-30 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
The invasion of Iraq proved itself a disaster. I wasn't happy about it when it first happened, and I'm still unhappy about it, very stupid maneuver. Not smart, not by a long shot. Anyone with half a conscious will agree that Saddam Hussein was a bad man; nevertheless, the situation over there has deteriorated dramatically ever since the west invaded. I could never see the reasoning behind trying to connect Iraq with the Taliban and terrorism. It doesn't compute. G. W. Bush was foolish and ego-bound to initiate this war in Iraq, and Great Britain's leadership was foolish to support it.

[identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com 2010-02-04 01:06 am (UTC)(link)

G.W. Bush was foolish and ego-bound to initiate this war in Iraq, and Great Britain's leadership was foolish to support it.

You never spoke a truer couple-dozen words.