Next Time, Try Not Lying

So, the Brothers B (Bush and Blair) are having one of their mutual admiration festivals.

Of course, one of the topics du jour is the question of what worked (or didn't work) in Iraq. No matter how you wrap Iraq in the Cloak of Righteous Democracy(tm), underneath, you still have that ugly little hump-backed troll underneath that is the reaction of people who don't like foreign invasions, and really despise occupation - even if it did overthrow a strongman dictator like Hussein.

Expect today to hear Blair bleating about how the US and Britain had to "go it alone" in Iraq because the United Nations wouldn't go along with their fabrications. This will, of course, be used to argue that the United Nations needs to be massively overhauled.

Oddly, I would argue the reverse is true - while I think the United Nations needs to be restructured, it's not for the reasons that B & B are talking about. In fact, I might almost go as far as arguing that in the Iraq situation, the United Nations did exactly the right thing.

Collectively, the world's governments looked at the case for invading Iraq and found it lacking. Which left only a bellicose President and his lap-dog Prime Minister standing in favour of invading Iraq.

The real lesson for B & B out of this is to quit lying. Most of us learn that lesson while growing up - lying tends not to work so well. Apparently politicians lose that lesson in their transformation from "average citizens" to "lying bastards".

[Update 27/05/06]Well, what do you know - Blair stayed right on script, and called for UN reforms yesterday.

I don't know what kind of "reforms" Blair is suggesting - I'll go digging for that later.
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