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Friday, 5 March 2010
Brown's predictable and weary defence of the Iraq disaster
"It was as anticlamactic as Gordon Brown's long coveted ascension to Number 10 has become.
"Here was a chance, after all, for him to put some distance between Labour and the disastrous decision to follow George W Bush into a war of regime-change, signed in other people's blood at Crawford, Texas, in 2002.
"Instead, Brown trotted out the weary apologias which so few in our country any longer believe: that the decision was based on definitive intelligence, which the spooks dispute, and had the backing of international law, which the lawyers refute.
"That much was predictable; it was unfeasible that he would either denounce his predecessor or claim he was merely a dessicated calculating machine, whirring away in a darkened Treasury in complete ignorance of the greatest blunder of our age being hatched just opposite
"But, as with Tony Blair, the most alarming aspect of his answers was not about what had gone before - the public mind is settled on that, in any case, no matter what scholastic distinctions the Chilcot report finally makes. It was the threat of more to come.
"Blair mentioned Iran 58 times. Brown's refrain was "rogue states". Those of us who marched against war on Iraq in 2002 were told we were being precipitate. It should now be clear to all that the die was already cast. Taken with the rising drumbeat from Tel Aviv and Washington, Brown's testimony should be taken as a serious portent of yet more mayhem."
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