Whitewash Won’t Cover Tony Blair’s Guilt

This week’s Chilcot report on Britain’s role in the 2003 invasion of Iraq was as polite and guarded as a proper English tea party. No direct accusations, no talk of war crimes by then Prime Minister Tony Blair or his guiding light, President George W. Bush.  But still pretty damning. Such government reports and commissions, as was wittily noted in the delightful program ‘Yes, Prime Minister,’ are designed to obscure rather than reveal the truth and bury awkward facts in mountains of paper. And beneath mountains of lies.  The biggest lie on both sides of the Atlantic was that the … Continue reading Whitewash Won’t Cover Tony Blair’s Guilt