So... posted by Richard Seymour

No split in the government, eh? One assumes that the split between Number Ten and the Foreign Office reflects a split in the political establishment more broadly, between that cliquish minority that really wants to wholeheartedly go with the Bush scheme for remaking the whole Middle East and the mainstream who would prefer to evince some distance to it, if only for appearances sake.

Now, this is worth noting: repeated news bulletins, some of which are saved on my hard disk (I'll put it on YouTube), refer to Blair's strenuous and tragically rebuffed efforts to secure a ceasefire. Hacks describe a Prime Minister wracked with nerves, pale with worry, constantly on the phone to world leaders, only to find his efforts coming to nought. The heroic idealisation of this mass murdering prick simply goes on and on and on. He has never tried to secure a ceasfire. He has rebuffed it at every turn, and even where he has appeared to accept that such a situation might be desirable, weasel formulations intrude at every turn. "The conditions must be right," he constantly asserts. Fancy trying that one in court?: "I simply say to you, your honour, that the conditions had to be right before I ceased my killing spree and if, y'know, these people are gonna insist on being alive in my vicinity then, y'know, of course it's right that I should take the appropriate steps."