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Cover the 10000 corpses with this, George, it worked for me. Luv Tony.

arthur prufrock | 01.10.2003 15:10

I predict that Bush is about to copy Blair's extremely successful "poor Kelly" distraction tactic. Using an ambassadors wife.

The Blair spin-doctors managed to distract our entire media, and public interest, onto entirely the wrong investigation. With a pile of 10,000 civilian corpses in Iraq, and probably at least thrice that number of maimed and injured, you could think that quite a lot of people are very upset.
So Blair carefully sets up an enquiry into whether one civil servant was a bit upset by some questioning that might have been a bit unkind.

One upset Englishman - result - many weeks media saturation, multimillion pound legal enquiry.
10,000 dead Iraqi's - result - silence.

Presumably this irrelevant Kelly charade was intended to delude the people into believing that their leaders were somehow being brought to task over Iraq, and so to quench their demand for investigation of the lies they had been told. The ravening dog has been given a rubber bone, and, unbelievably, seems so stupid as to be satisfied.

Worked like a dream.

For this strategy to succeed, it has to look like the govt has been caught doing something naughty, and for it then to nobly allow itself to be investigated. No-one must notice that the crime is very small compared with the huge one it seeks to conceal, the investigation is carefully focussed and limited, and the actual culprits, when discovered, must be preferably pretty low-level creatures, or at least readily sacrificeable.

Looks to me like Bush has found the ideal in "the Ambassador, his CIA wife, and the naughty leak". I predict he will copy the Blair success, with a hugely publicised but carefully controlled investigation into nothing much. TV will vibrate with indignation and analsis for a month or two. The foolish population will be largely placated, ending up with the vague feeling that their government has been adequately taken to task on the Iraq question.

On their next meeting Tony and George will then share a "high-five".

And 10,000 innocent Iraqis will still be dead because two populations (and parliaments) were seduced into supporting this massacre by a pack of lies, distortions, and spin.

arthur prufrock