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Thursday, December 15th, 2005 at
9:37 pm and is filed
under The War on Stupid.
Rachel from North London: How dare you presume you know our questions and how dare you presume that they can be answered by a ‘narrative of what happened’, as if we are children to be placated with a story. I know what happened, I want to know why. I want a debate, Mr Blair, I want a dialogue. I will not shut up about it either. (via)
More here. And a great post here.
UPDATE – Another “Well said!” via Warmwell;
Professor James Crawford: A government is not exonerated from conduct which leads directly to a person being tortured merely by closing its eyes to that prospect.
By richard December 16, 2005 - 12:15 pm
I love this quote from that BBC report you’ve linked to:”But Mr Straw later told MPs there was no need at all for a judge-led inquiry.And he said that unless people believed he and his US counterpart were lying, there was no truth in the allegations.” – well, yes, exactly…