THE CONUNDRUM WHOSE NAME IS BLAIR

It's not difficult to fathom why George Bush drove
his country into the disaster that is Iraq. One fac-
tor was that he was pummeled by hyperbole by
his neo-con aides of what Saddam was going to do
us. Add to that Bush's lifelong failure at virtually
every opportunity he was given, made him ripe
to take advantage of redemption in the form of a
conquering hero. He decided to bounce Saddam
& grab Iraq's oil at the same time

Bush's current continuation is more baffling. The
oil may still go to the powers that be(62 & 63 ISG)
but the war is a malignant calamity to the dead &
wounded, the ruined infrastructures, the economy
and our country may never regain its sickening
fall from the world's most prestigious nation.
Redemption must be made of very stern stuff.

But Tony Blair. Why he lied to get the Brits into
the mess is mystifying. Unlike Bush, his advisors
were skeptical, some downright opposed. Also
he had to know that he & his countrymen would
only play a subservient & sycophantic role as yes
men to a person of elephantine limitations. The
only explanation that may pass without contro-
versey is that Britian will be a heluva lot better
off when he's benched.

Comes now the suppressed Butler Report by the
House of Commons Foreign Office & Carne Ross
Key negotiator with the Brit delegation at the
U.N. in 2001, 02, 03.

Please read this report. It's shocking. At one point
the report tells us how Blair was told Saddam had
NO biological, chemical nor nuclear material.
Blair told Parliament Saddam could activate
his WMD in 45 minutes. Mr Ross conveyed the
info to the US delegation. They agreed. Bush ig-
nored it. It is pretty conclusive now, very few
Amercans believe anything Bush says, but at that
time we just didn't know that when he said some-
thing, anything, he thought was right & he be-
lieved it to be fact. There is a medical term for
that affliction.

The tragedy of this war is that the invasion
could have been stopped in its tracks by either
of two men. Tony Blair & Colin Powell. Look
at them now. Between them & all their friends
they couldn't field a soccer team.