We should have had ordinary Iraqi and British citizens on the panel and sharp lawyers too. Ordinary Britons too have a clearer view than assumed by these people in high places. The Iraqi academic Sami Ramadhani says his countrymen have no interest in this inquiry. Did none of his close circle feel they had a duty to warn him that to kill and maim over a million people was extravagant ambition? Therein was enacted what the right wing political philosopher Leo Strauss calls 'the noble lie', the right of leaders to lie to the masses, aided and abetted by a small elite of the chosen ones privy to the truth.
We are told that Blair made war because he wanted not to look as weak as Michael Foot. All those MPs from the gung ho Ian Duncan Smith to most of the weak new Labour herd went with the PM. The Attorney General, by that one action might have saved his own soul and that of Blair. Then, so the story goes, Blair bullied him so much he lost three stone and finally capitulated. In his view Blair just wasn't a Mrs Thatcher and that was the problem.Īccording to new information, Lord Goldsmith warned the PM against the adventure. Opened a bottle of champagne when the Belgrano was destroyed.
He too was pro-war, always has loved a good war. Sir Christopher Meyer was no better though he now presents himself as vaguely heroic. In an interview in this paper with David Usborne in June 2003, he was still asserting that WMD were being moved around, hidden in private homes and buried. Well, Sir WHY DIDN'T YOU? If you look back at what he said over those gruesome years, it is clear he supported the war, thought the UN was either too feeble or asinine to understand the manifestly superior US and UK.
Sir Jeremy Greenstock, then our man at the UN now says his knowledge and conscience made him feel uncomfortable that the war, though legal had no legitimacy.
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