The Deconstruction of Falling Stars

[caddyman]

Walking from Westminster, past the Abbey, toward Victoria this morning, we were crossing The Sanctuary and trying to fathom out why there were loads of police on patrol, several police vans with reserves, a demonstration (very quiet) outside Methodist Central Hall and a huge media scrum outside the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre.

What could possibly be going on to warrant all this attention? Could we think of anything happening right now that might account for it? We could not.

Now I like to think this is simply because we had been dozing on the tube on the way into work and that apart from a quick coffee at around 7.15 this morning, we were caffeine deprived, but really.

It is, of course, today that Tony Blair goes back to the interminable Chilcot Enquiry on the Iraq War.

I do not like the man, but this is beginning to feel like one of those times when the only answer that will do is the answer that the enquiry and the public wants. I could be, probably am wrong, but it really does seem as though he will just get called back, quizzed and interrogated on ever finer points of detail until, through shaving everything away, there arrives an answer sufficiently unambiguous, on a point of infinitesimal detail, that someone will feel justified in extrapolating events back from that point and rebuilding history in their preferred image.

Once they have done that, no one will ask for Tony’s input any more, ever, and his version of events will be consigned to history and the public’s preferred version will become gospel.

Regardless of the truth. Goodfacts versus Realfacts.

Comments

[petrusplancius.livejournal.com]

I think about 95% of us have reached the conclusion (a) that in retrospect the decision to get involved in the Iraq War was one of the worst foreign policy blunders of the last 50 years and (b), that the justifications that were offered beforehand were grossly misleading to say the very least. Blair can of course never admit either point, but it makes no difference at all, and the fact that he honestly thinks that everything he did was right just makes him look a bit cracked. He really is much weirder than he seems. Personally I think it is much safer to be ruled by cynical politicians than ones who think they are Jesus.

[fractalgeek.livejournal.com]

I suspect they are building up for the Grand Eviction of Parliment Square.

[fencingsculptor.livejournal.com]

"Well possibly. But the real reason for the whole thing was that it was too much effort not to have a war."

- 'Goodbyeee'

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