Bastard Bush's Bitch Blair Busted?

New Labour have in effect won the argument. Petty squabbling over procedure and the legality of the war has managed to completely obfuscate the very real and far more pressing moral arguments against engaging in a war that has left 100s of thousands of people dead.

Especially given that the Tories are only attacking the procedure for going to war, and still agree that the war itself was a Good Thing.

I like the justification it's 'nothing new' so it doesn't matter right?

Do top secret government documents really have "Secret and strictly personal — UK eyes only" and "The paper should be shown only to those with a genuine need to know" written on them? I'm completely unsurprised by the content of the paper here, but equally I'd be unsurprised if this leak was a fake.

they do this so that when it's leaked it'd look as if it's a crap fake.

I think "need[s] to know" is a well-estbalished bureacratic phrase. When I was working for a contractor that worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, I remember my supervisor or me having to submit something that said "[my name] needs to know" (a phrase I remember just kind of hanging there like that, without it saying what I needed to know, though that was probably said elsewhere).