Blair gets another pass

While the British investigation found that the intelligence was faulty, Blair has been exonerated by virtue of the finding that he didn't intentionally make anything up.

We have such low standards for our leaders these days.

A British inquiry has found that Prime Minister Tony Blair's government, honestly believing that Saddam Hussein posed a threat, failed to tell the nation how “thin” the evidence against the Iraqi leader was.

Presided over by Lord Butler of Brockwell, the five-month investigation said that information on Iraq that was used by the Blair government to sell the war was inaccurate but that the government was not guilty of manipulating the data to fit his agenda.

  Globe and Mail article

No, that was BushCo. And Tony went along.

And he's repeating the same old lame verse: the world is better off without Saddam. Really, that's about all they've got left to go on, and that's only because they're using the "what if" argument to claim that things would have been worse if he were still in office. Something that you can't prove, but that I find highly doubtful.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.