Christ a-bleedin'-live
Here's Neil Clark on those with "blood on their hands":
The role played by pro-war journalists, in manipulating public opinion in favour of the illegal conflict should never be forgotten. The journalists who faithfully parroted the propaganda of the US/UK governments have blood on their hands. Lots of it. Yet, despite the human catastrophe that their propaganda has caused, the self-same hacks continue to pump out their pro-war, imperialist poison as if nothing has happened. Nick Cohen holds court at the Hay Book Festival, flogging copies of his latest pamphlet. Melanie Phillips writes articles on how Iraqi WMD have been moved to Syria. Stephen Pollard and Daniel Finkelstein try all they can to get public support for a pre-emptive strike on Iran.
etc etc. Do they really have blood on their hands though? It's not as if Bush was wavering on whether he should invade Iraq, then read a Nick Cohen article and thought, "Shit, maybe invading Iraq's a good idea after all." Is it?
Then who pops up in support but John McDonnell, our failed wannabe next PM:
Thanks for this considred [sic] piece Neil.
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A key issue is how Members of Parliament and Ministers on this and so many other issues cut themselves off from and remain unaccountable to our society.
Er...wasn't there a GENERAL ELECTION in 2005, AFTER the Iraq war? And the Great British public did not vote out those imperialist Zionist neo-cons. One would have thought that that was a sort of democratic accountability. And wasn't the decision to allow PARLIAMENT to vote on declaring war unprecedented? Sigh.
Roll on John4leader 2009, I say...
Cory
