The Rude Pundit: Photos That Make the Rude Pundit Want to Shove a Crumpet Up Someone's Ass

[meegbear]

You know, not much may come at the end of the day from the Chilcot panel's inquiry into what led Britain into the Iraq war. It may not lead to anything more than one more report saying generic "Mistakes were made" kind of bullshit. It may offer nothing more than one more ripped condom to sheath the diseased cock-politic that fucked the conscience back into the British people while infecting them. But, unlike over here in the good ol' USA, where we never look back because we don't want to see the wreckage we've left behind, at the very least, for a day, former Prime Minister Tony Blair was forced to show up and publicly explain what the fuck he did.

Of course, Blair didn't back down, didn't offer any mea culpas, and clung so tightly to George W. Bush's ballsack that he must never be able to get the smell of sweaty Texas taint off his skin. "The decision I took – and frankly would take again – was if there was any possibility that he could develop weapons of mass destruction we should stop him. That was my view then and that is my view now," he said of Saddamn Hussein. And he offered a telling comparison that indicates, without saying so, how shit was gonna play out no matter what. Blair said that there was really no difference wanting regime change in Iraq and wanting it to disarm, that "It's more a different way of expressing the same proposition."

You got that? Disarmament? No WMDs? Didn't matter. What it really was about was getting rid of Saddam Hussein, no matter the cost in lives and money.

There's protests going on outside the inquiry and angry families of dead soldiers thinking that Blair is a smirking fuck. Whatever may come of the inquiry, at a minimum, in England they have the guts to look back and try to make sense of what they did. They at least understand that their former leaders may have to live in disgrace.

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[liberalmuse]

1. I love the way he writes.

He mixes outrage with some of the crudest metaphors I've come across, but the truth and irony is, the real vulgarity and porn is in the actions perpetrated by rude pundits subjects.

Oh, and I love your quote, LOL! I'm straining at the leash (or PMSing) to buy the new iPad.

[Brickbat]

2. I was thinking that this morning, when I heard Blair's comments to the panel on NPR.

I thought, wait a minute, he actually has to show up and talk about it? And while I agree, it was a huge licking of Bush's scrotum, it was amazing to hear him sit and say those things in front of an inquiry. It blew me away. I was so impressed.

[ThomWV]

3. It is going on live right now - cspan 3 they are in afternoon session now.

[mopinko]

4. it would be a different world if we have question time here.

anyone who has managed to escape knowledge of this delightful tradition give a listen here

[myrna minx]

5. I wish I could be watching this.

I hope Cspan has a replay. K&R

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. And if you like the Rude Pundit on this, you may like the Flying Rodent:

I imagine that Chilcot will cast Tony Blair as a shifty, pompous, dishonest twerp who sent the armed forces into a boiling disaster, much as an inquiry into Myra Hindley’s behaviour would probably raise doubts over her suitability for childminding duties. Sadly, the chances of it finding criminal culpability in the former PM’s aggressive warmaking are somewhere between jack and shit, and Jack just nipped into Ladbrokes to put a whopping great bet on a whitewash.

I guess this is my point – the question of the war’s legality is an enticing carrot for anti-war types to chase in perpetuity. I’m working on the assumption that for some, a fiery official condemnation would prove them right once and for all and force the nation to face reality, as if the last seven years weren’t quite real enough.

Whether Chilcot nails Blair’s balls to the floor or not, the war’s defenders are not about to throw up their hands in horror and join in the massive bout of Bodysnatchers-style finger-pointing and howling. There will be no Thank you protestors for being right about this epic clusterfuck after-show party.

A sizeable number of the war’s cheerleaders have cheerfully blown off its horrific consequences, from the Iraqi insurgents’ bloodbaths, through the sectarian death squads and the ensuing civil war and micro-partitioning of the country, by waving their hands and chanting the magical exculpatory incantation, Al-Qaeda terrorists ate our homework!

These people would rather cram their scrotums down their own throats than give an inch to Chilcot, and the odds of say, the Times, running a Sorry we fed you all lies editorial are woeful.
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http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/01/28/the-chilcot-farce-doesnt-change-anything/