The more you read, the more you discover that it was Blair – entirely alone in the
country – who wished to invade Iraq in 2003. The cabinet didn’t want to, even Blair’s cabal didn’t want to. Even Alastair Campbell had grave reservations. Everyone around
him thought it wrong, or illegal, or both. And watching him shift around in his seat at the Chilcot Inquiry, with his “well, you know, look…..” and his newly refreshed stock of
evasions, I’m reminded of Neil Young’s lyrics, from the song Ambulance Blues – an attack, at the time, upon Nixon. But hell, if the cap fits:
‘I never knew a man Could tell so many lies He had a different story For every set of eyes How could he remember Who he’s talking to? Because I know it isn’t me And I hope it isn’t you.’
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