No Country for Tony Blair

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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 8:08 am

For a preview of what we’ll get if the Democrats win the White House in November, jump across the pond:

Britain’s information commissioner has ordered the government to release the minutes of two cabinet meetings held in March 2003 under Tony Blair, then the prime minister, to discuss the legality of the allied invasion of Iraq that began later that month.

The commissioner, Richard Thomas, acting on a request made under the Freedom of Information Act, said his ruling was based on “the gravity and controversial nature” of Britain’s decision to go to war and would not, as government officials have argued, set a “dangerous precedent” for releasing cabinet papers that have traditionally remained secret for 30 years.

Mr. Thomas cited the controversy surrounding the ruling by the Blair government’s attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, that going to war was legal, and the protest resignations of several of Mr. Blair’s ministers that followed.

“The commissioner considers that the decision on whether to take military action against another country is so important that the accountability for such decision-making is paramount,” Mr. Thomas’s ruling said.

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skulzfontaine
Comment posted February 27, 2008 @ 9:37 am

Can we all say ‘war crimes tribunals’? I knew that we could! Should the Democrats win in November and there is an awfully big IF hanging there in that ‘unanswered’ category, will Democrats have the sack to open a treasonous Pandora’s box of traitorous collusion and rank political deception? I mean the Bush regime lied Amerika into the Afghan/Iraq catastrophe and Congress bought the Bush deception hook, line, and spin. Democrats AND Republicans. Sen. Dianne Feinstein has war profiteered handsomely from the Iraq war and she’s a Democrat. How about Joe ‘the little butcher’ Lieberman? Backstabbing little genocidal maniac that he is. "Let’s kill Muslims cause we’s in a Crusade!" Golly Killer, sit down and shut up! Bush et all, by any shred of human decency, should already be on their way wrapped tightly in shackles and chain to the International Criminal Court at the Hague. Congress isn’t about to take ANY responsibility for the Bush insanity. Congress is wrapped up in the Bush treason as is any number of the Bush sycophants. ‘We the people’ are caught miserably in an enigma wrapped tightly inside a convoluted political conundrum. We’ve never had to face up to the ACTUAL demands of constitutional justice. Have we the balls and the moral sense, if not duty, to do that? I’m not so certain that Amerika really wants to face the harsh reality that we’ve been sold down a dank and corrupt river of no return. Given the sorry excuse that the Democrats have shown for leadership and I would offer up one Nancy Pelosi as that old power point presentation on corrupt deceit, there isn’t much to seem hopeful about. Remember kids, "impeachment is OFF the table."


justjohn
Comment posted February 27, 2008 @ 8:59 am

Here in the USA, the Bush Administration has built up such a record of unanswered FOIA requests and similar refusals to provide information that the next Administration will spend much of its time just addressing the backlog. And that will have to result in lots of stories similar to the above, as well as (one hopes) prosecutions.

It may feel like vindictive retribution, but it’s been built right in by the Bushes.


justjohn
Comment posted February 27, 2008 @ 2:59 am

Here in the USA, the Bush Administration has built up such a record of unanswered FOIA requests and similar refusals to provide information that the next Administration will spend much of its time just addressing the backlog. And that will have to result in lots of stories similar to the above, as well as (one hopes) prosecutions.

It may feel like vindictive retribution, but it's been built right in by the Bushes.


skulzfontaine
Comment posted February 27, 2008 @ 3:37 am

Can we all say 'war crimes tribunals'? I knew that we could! Should the Democrats win in November and there is an awfully big IF hanging there in that 'unanswered' category, will Democrats have the sack to open a treasonous Pandora's box of traitorous collusion and rank political deception? I mean the Bush regime lied Amerika into the Afghan/Iraq catastrophe and Congress bought the Bush deception hook, line, and spin. Democrats AND Republicans. Sen. Dianne Feinstein has war profiteered handsomely from the Iraq war and she's a Democrat. How about Joe 'the little butcher' Lieberman? Backstabbing little genocidal maniac that he is. "Let's kill Muslims cause we's in a Crusade!" Golly Killer, sit down and shut up! Bush et all, by any shred of human decency, should already be on their way wrapped tightly in shackles and chain to the International Criminal Court at the Hague. Congress isn't about to take ANY responsibility for the Bush insanity. Congress is wrapped up in the Bush treason as is any number of the Bush sycophants. 'We the people' are caught miserably in an enigma wrapped tightly inside a convoluted political conundrum. We've never had to face up to the ACTUAL demands of constitutional justice. Have we the balls and the moral sense, if not duty, to do that? I'm not so certain that Amerika really wants to face the harsh reality that we've been sold down a dank and corrupt river of no return. Given the sorry excuse that the Democrats have shown for leadership and I would offer up one Nancy Pelosi as that old power point presentation on corrupt deceit, there isn't much to seem hopeful about. Remember kids, "impeachment is OFF the table."


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