Morning all. It's marking hell for me again today. I've finished Communications Studies Pile 1, and now I'm moving on to Poetry. 40 down, 190 to go…
By way of distraction, I'm keeping an eye on Alastair Campbell's examination at the Iraq war inquiry. True to form, instead of answering questions reflectively, Blair's spin doctor is behaving strategically, obfuscating and blocking like a pro. Apparently Blair is a big fan of the UN, didn't do whatever George Bush wanted, and never wanted a war at all. Well, well, well.
Inconveniently, the Dutch released their report on the war today (they offered the US 'political and (defensive) military support'). They've concluded that it was an illegal war (paragraphs 18 and 20) and that reports made public were significantly less nuanced than those provided by the intelligence services to government departments and parliament (30, 32) - just like the 'dodgy dossier' here, because the government preferred to rely on US and UK claims.
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