[Futurework] Words of Mass Deception

[Keith Hudson]

This evening on Any Questions, the regular BBC Radio 4 question-and-answer programme with a panel of four distinguished individuals from different walks of life, two of the latter said quite bluntly that they thought Blair had been a liar when he told the House of Commons that WMDs was the reason for going to war in Iraq. The two other panelists did not directly challenge these statements.

In the whole of my life I have never heard such brutal language spoken of a sitting Prime Minister in this country, no matter how detested. (Paradoxically, Tony Blair is not really detested -- if anything, he is still quite liked -- but the majority of thinking people certainly think that he has deceived them. This ought to be a warning to Bush. Surely, Americans are not less perspicacious and I can only think that the realisation of having been deceived cannot be long delayed).

(Incidentally, when David Dimbleby held a straw poll of the studio audience [generally older middle-class people] as to whether WMD really meant Words of Mass Deception it was 'overwhelmingly' agreed.)

Keith Hudson   
Keith Hudson, 6 Upper Camden Place, Bath, England