Ha ha ha ha ha!

[Dean]

The Warmonger Bliar wished to avoid the Eyerack war...

Does a lie repeated often enough become the truth?

History is written by the winners. Blair has always wanted to be remembered as a great statesman, hence the move to international politics after the PM job. This is just the start of the whitewash campaign. What's interesting is that he's got a former policy adviser to make the statements rather than put himself on the line by having to answer questions about his position.

[xoggoth]

In March 2003 Mr Blair won Parliament's backing to send British troops to war - despite a rebellion by 139 Labour MPs.

Why are these lies and halftruths perpetuated?. The parliamentary vote was meaningless because Bliar had made clear beforehand that it would not influence the outcome and as Andrew Marr put it there was an "enormous amount of arm twisting". Most were not going to risk advancement when a principled stand would have no purpose whatever.

Bit like saying the British people voted for entry to the EU. How often do we hear that?

[Sysman]

Why are these lies and halftruths perpetuated?. The parliamentary vote was meaningless because Bliar had made clear beforehand that it would not influence the outcome and as Andrew Marr put it there was an "enormous amount of arm twisting". Most were not going to risk advancement when a principled stand would have no purpose whatever.

Yeah. That bit jumped out at me too. As I recall, Bliar tried to avoid having a vote in the first place.

Bit like saying the British people voted for entry to the EU. How often do we hear that?

I haven't heard that for ages.

I voted for the EEC, not the EU, and am pissed off that they kidnapped what I voted for.