If Tony Blair was a liar, I’d vote for him
Who decided that the Iraq issue boiled down to the question of Tony Blair’s character? Not only is it a distraction from the actual objections to the war, it’s a distraction that is bound to let anyone responsible for the war, and Blair in particular, off the hook. Tony Blair’s problem is not that he is insincere: quite the contrary, the problem is that he is _hyper_-sincere, so sincere that his faith in what he’s doing becomes more important than the actual facts of what he’s done. To make Iraq about Tony Blair’s character is to completely play into his hands: if you want to launch personal attacks on Blair, better to follow Steve Bell’s example.
Meanwhile, anti-election posters have started appearing around Cambridge, which is nice to see.
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That’s a very interesting observation. However, do not the recently released documents indicate that he knew full well that a war against Iraq wasn’t legally justifiable, and that the decision to go to war was made before they gave a thought to how they would justify it? In this sense, hyper-sincerity doesn’t quite fit, as it appears there was some intentional lying going on. Now he may be such an idiot that he came around to believing what he invented hyper-sincerely. If so, we’d have to seriously question his IQ, and perhaps suggest that he try getting a few more hours of sleep at night…
Comment by RIPope @ 5/4/2005 4:48 am