The Butler Report has really got my back up. His Lordship seems to have done a thorough enough job, but once again Blair has got away with it and nobody is responsible for anything. It smells like another Establishment stitch-up to me. What really makes me mad is the issue of the JIC caveats not appearing in the government dossier. In other words, Number 10 "sexed it up". I heard one commentator saying that the warnings and caveats got lost somewhere along the way.
 
Got lost?
 
They didn't get lost. They didn't fall down behind the sofa or get thrown out with last week's Radio Times. Somebody took them out because somebody else wanted them taken out. That somebody else being Jonathon Powell, Alistair Campbell or their minions at Number 10. But nobody is to blame. It's all "collective misjudgement" or "groupthink". Grrrrrrr!
 
It's pretty obvious how this came about. We were going to war with Iraq whatever happened and the government was absolutely desperate to try and find something they could sell it to us on. It's obvious that WMD were not a real issue. I don't even think it was really about oil (although that's always nice to have). We went to war  because George W. and a coterie of neo-conservative advisors actually thought regime change in Iraq would be good for the war on terror. And we do whatever America wants us to do.
 
Can we please have an inquiry into that?