Interesting, isn't it? The lies and deceptions propagated by the Shrub Administration to convince Americans to support a war against Iraq have spread their poison across the Pond. Now Tony Blair is feeling the heat, and he's in full spin control mode. It's too bad for him that the British public won't buy bread and circuses.
Speaking before a joint meeting of Congress in Washington, the Prime Minister said America must "listen as well as lead" in the fight against terrorism.
"Can we be sure that terrorism and weapons of mass destruction will join together?
"Let us say one thing. If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least, is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering.
"That is something I am confident history will forgive.
"But if our critics are wrong, if we are right, as I believe with every fibre of instinct and conviction I have that we are, and we do not act, then we will have hesitated in the face of this menace when we should have given leadership.
"That is something history will not forgive."
It's a fascinating attempt at rationalizing the Big Lie, but I'm not sure that doing the right thing for the wrong reason is something that history will treat kindly. If I were Tony Blair, I would be putting as much distance as I could between myself and Shrub. I think Blair may well have been the willing dupe in this scenario. Frankly, he deserves better.
And here's something for those Washington politicians who are demanding George Tenet's head to chew on: I don't think you're looking far enough up the food chain. You might try looking at the captain of the Good Ship WMD. Am I advocating that the President resign? Udambetcha.... Shrub has based his credibility and his leadership on his aura of righteousness and rectitude. Sadly, he has proven himself to be as craven and loose with the truth as any other politician. Perhaps it's time he exercised some real leadership and stepped aside.
