45 RPM

The government's claim that Iraq could fire chemical and biological weapons within 45 minutes was formally withdrawn by the foreign secretary, Jack Straw, yesterday. He’s smart that Jack Straw. You don’t get to be Foreign Secretary (ish) if your not a real whip in the IQ department.

Hee hee. Kafka couldn’t have written this shit. So the weapons that we know now never existed couldn’t have been dispatched at 45 minutes notice?

I love the ongoing optimism of sections of the press in the face of a brazen lying deceitful government. The Guardian writes: “Tony Blair will be under renewed pressure at prime minister's questions today to offer a formal apology to MPs.”

Yeah yeah then he’s going to continue saying: “I’d also like to take this opportunity to apologise for continuing the fag-end of Thatcherite economics when I should have been stubbing it out and creating a modern social democracy…”