C’mon Guardian, C’mon Kofi! Get it Right!

According to The Guardian, acting as press and publicity agent for former UN secretary general Kofi Annan (it’s one of those “new book out” deals), Tony Blair is to blame for the war in Iraq. Don’t get me wrong, Tony should be strung up by his privates for his part in the Iraq debacle, but Blair was only a “yes man” to the Bush/Cheney agenda.

Kofi ponders, "I will forever wonder what would have happened if, without a second UN resolution, Blair had said ’George, this is where we part company. You’re on your own. I really think it could have stopped the war ... It would have given the Americans pause. It would have given them a very serious pause to think it through ... All this would have raised a question: ’Do we go this alone?’"

I don’t think anybody in the Bush administration was going to pause, Kofi. Nothing would have stopped the George/Dick assault on Saddam. Truth is: they didn’t want to stop in Iraq (and, for the most part, that same US policy has continued with a war of aggression against Libya, drone strikes in a half dozen countries, and Syria and Iran are next).

The Guardian then adds this juicy tidbit: “The US-led invasion led to a war that lasted for eight years and is believed to have cost more than 100,000 lives.” Yeah, Guardian, WAY “more than 100,000 lives” – like a million or two according to a study by Johns Hopkins.

And here comes the punch line: “Annan said he did not agree with fellow Nobel peace prize laureate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, over his suggestion that Bush and Blair should face proceedings in the international criminal court. Annan said they were democratically elected leaders acting in what they believed were their national interests.”

So let’s see if I’ve got this. “Only” one hundred thousand Iraqis died, Bush is not to blame, and “national interests” (let’s say, oh I dunno, maybe OIL, for example) justify a war of aggression half a globe away?

Ain’t buyin’ your book dude, you’re a shill for the Bush dynasty.

And "we the people" (just for the record) want to, and WILL eventually, string the bastards up for unforgivable atrocities against humanity.