whose war?

This was in the Guardian on Tuesday. It appears that we have been going off to Iraq to fight Iran's war. What a nice piece of irony. It would make me laugh (it did) if it weren't so tragically absurd as well. It's an absolutely extraordinary bit of news, to discover that false information fed to the CIA by Iranian agents via an Iraqi source was at the root about all this hysterical lying about 'weapons of mass destruction'. The Iranians appear to have made these up, and like good little dogs, the Americans rolled over and did their dirty work for them.

It doesn't take much to dupe a super power, it would seem.

I am still bamboozled, though, about the ideological ramifications of all this. It makes the brain spin. And I still don't understand why. Why the US went, and why Blair went along with them.

It also makes you realise that a culture based on non-transparency (as are secret services) sets itself up for this kind of shit. If nobody knows who is feeding information to whom from whom and if the public are just being 'assured' that yes, there is a 'source', then we're living in Wonderland.

Hello, teletubbies. Here, have some machine guns.