Lords aren't born anymore
Over here in the colonies, you seem to be unaware
that Lords are no longer born but are now minted.
"Lord" Hutton is a political appointee, not some
ninth generation landed aristocrat - though why the heck
anyone would trust someone just because they
were an upper class twit with a snooty accent and a very old
house in a large field, Zeus only knows.
Who appointed him?
To his various posts, Hutton's appointments have
been made by Blair or one of his predecessors, those
Republican bastions (is that how you spell a
child born out of wedlock?) Margret Roberts or John Major.
That would be Maggie Thatcher of union busting
and economy destroying fame or John Major who now works
with Bush Senior at the Carlyle group.
If you didn't see it, there was a hint of the
hair splitting and legal sleight of hand that was to come when Hutton
ruled last fall that the inquiry was public but
couldn't be shown on TV. He used the following absurd logic:
If I say you can't film the inquiry, you don't
have the material to disseminate and it is no longer a
question of free speech since you are not free
to disseminate that which you don't have.
You think I'm kidding?
Read it and snort with laughter at this:
http://www.dracos.co.uk/hutton/rulings/ruling01.htm
As for absolving Blair and, by proxy, Bush of
blame for lying; that is hardly what this Shrewsbury School
former pupil has done. The Hutton report doesn't
deny that the claims made to get us to invade Iraq were
lies. Trying to follow his purposely Byzantine
and misleading logic, it seems he found insufficient evidence
to show that Tony Blair personally made up those
lies.
The obvious internal inconsistencies of the Hutton
report are being ignored by the US press.
They are instead regurgitating the sound bites
provided by the Republican myth makers.
For example:
Hutton found that
a) The Blair government WAS NOT responsible for
the way Dr Kelly's name was leaked.
b) The MoD WAS at fault in the naming of Dr Kelly.
Doctor Kelly was the arms inspection expert who
blew the whistle on the Bush-Blair fake intelligence scam.
He wound up dead under mysterious circumstances,
not the least of which was that he had 20 pills in his
stomach but was morbidly afraid of taking tablets,
he was part of a religious group morally opposed to
suicide and he had sent emails to friends saying
he thought his life was in danger.
Now here we see one of the problems that Lord Hutton of the Pocket Whitewash Hundreds worked so hard to hide....
The MoD is the ministry of Defence, a part of
the government. At least it was the last time I checked.
Sorry Hutters old bean, but your two 'findings'
cannot both be true.
On occasion, it's hard to tell if the so called
Hutton report might not have been written by that other
Shrewsbury school old boy - Michael Palin of
Monty Python's Flying Circus.
To get a Pdf of the whole convoluted mess pretending
to be a report:
http://media.guardian.co.uk/huttoninquiry/story/0,13812,1133876,00.html
Faun - who has read the report which is more than
any
US reporters seem to have bothered to do.