Blair "disingenuous" about Iraq WMDs - Lord Butler

[Bagpuss]

Does anyone believe what that idiot has to say? It seems like all the neocon hawks are taking a stroll down slippery shoulder street on their way to scapegoat city... holes

Mailman did

[AlfredJPruffock]

The ultimate humiliation attack on Blairs Iraq fantasy was from Thatcher who said she would not have went to War on the data which Blair had, on the basis that as a scientist, more compelling evidence would have been required.

But then again - Thatcher was not a wannabe Popstar.

For the record - John Bolton is a Saddamist defeatist who ought to have been hung with his paymaster.

[TheOmegaMan]

What we need is a regulator to regulate politics and funded by the political parties. A mandatory 5% charge should be levied on every political party and all politicians should be degree qualified. Forget the electorate they don't matter - the regulator should hold politicians to account for then there is financial motitivation - party funds.

[AlfredJPruffock]

"I hope that people know me well enough and realise that I would never do anything to harm the country or anything improper. I never have. I think most people who have dealt with me think that I am a pretty straight sort of guy.”

Tony Blair 1997

[wendigo100]

You couldn't make this up, John Bolton, one of the biggest hawks in the Bush Government was on Newsnight last night. He blaimed the WMD shambles on Blair, he reckoned the US only thought he had the scientific intelectual ability to acquire them.

I believed and indeed said this two years ago, when it emerged that the US had relied on Blair's dossier to fill in the gaps in their own intelligence. More fool the US.

[AlfredJPruffock]

2,000,000 Iraqis now live outside Iraq, according to UNHCR

From a self-confessed 'pretty decent guy' legacy to the people of Iraq


12,000 doctors have fled Iraq since the war began. Another 2,000 are said to have been killed, and at least 250 kidnapped

50% Average inflation in 2006, according to the World Bank

6.3 hours of electricity daily in Baghdad in December 2006. In May 2003 there were 16-24 hours

32 percentage of people in Iraq with drinkable water

3,700,000 Iraqis now receive food aid from the UN World Food Programme

16% Proportion of Iraqis who said in January that their income meets their basic needs

Not to mention the people who have died ...

[AlfredJPruffock]

What we need is a regulator to regulate politics and funded by the political parties. A mandatory 5% charge should be levied on every political party and all politicians should be degree qualified. Forget the electorate they don't matter - the regulator should hold politicians to account for then there is financial motitivation - party funds.

Good suggestion - still my blueprint for the UK's political future would consist of

1) The immediate dissolution of the Current Political Parties

2) The instatement of high street Banks as the replacement parties to represent the UK electorate

I think voting for Barclays, Natwest or Royal Bank of Scotland etc would be a more effective and less patronising system that the current schema - besides in a way it is the Banks that ultimately rule UK politics - time to cut out the smiling ineffectual middlemen.

Of course the Banks manifestos would only vary by minute differences in macro-economcis ef what interest rate to set etc but remember folks - no matter whom you vote - the government always gets in.