Remember me?

It would seem logical, considering we’re on the verge of the next election, to review all thirteen catastrophic years under this authoritarian and warmongering government. But even the opposition parties can’t seem to bring themselves to look in Blair’s direction.

You can understand why the Tories want to look the other way, they happily played along with Blair’s horrendous invasion and sat on their hands as the dire consequences unfolded.

But what of the Liberal Democrats? They’ll tell you all day long they didn’t officially vote for the war but what action did they take to try to prevent it? What did they do after the bombs started falling to put an end to the carnage? The answer is nothing at all.

Thousands of private individuals, at their own time and expense, have tried to bring Blair to justice so he can answer for his crimes against humanity. People have petitioned, attempted citizens arrests, lobbied MPs, written blogs, produced videos.

In the end though, if there is no political will to see justice applied to the powerful in society, just as it is routinely meted out to the common man, what can be done to make killers like Blair answerable for his actions? Nothing much, shout until you are purple with rage but it achieves nothing because the establishment has decided not to listen.

If the Liberal Democrats were genuinely opposed to the illegal war then where were they when they were needed most? Safe behind Westminter’s barricades, preaching loudly but practising none of it.

This is the signature of a minority party that stands to lose little by taking a popular view that runs contrary to the agenda of the state. Their trivial gamble has now paid off as they cynically parade themselves as the anti-war choice. It’s sickening.

So today we witness a Labour Party that desperately wants us to forget, Conservatives who know they’ll be dragged down by association and a bunch of Lib Dem opportunists who are happy to offer a sound bite but aren’t so keen to discuss the finer details.

This election campaign has been condensed to two issues, taxation and cuts in public services. Both arising from economic policies that all three parties watched unfolding, much like the carnage in Iraq.

The parties don’t want to go into detail on the “approved” issues either. They won’t tell you how much they’re going to tax you in return for providing less. In fact none of them want to speak about anything much at all.

That’s because, when you peel back the media filter, they are all guilty of failing the British public and refusing to represent our interests over those of the warmongers and the banksters. They all sat and fiddled expenses and turned a blind eye as Britain fell into ruin and Iraq and Afghanistan burned.

These charlatans want your vote on May 6th. Close your ears to their lies, close your eyes to the staged debates and instead use your mind. And remember, remember, because that’s what they fear the most, your memory. Your realisation of how corrupt and deceitful they truly are.

Then take a cold, hard look at the state of this nation and where we are headed if we, as a people, don’t put a stop to this once and for all.

Leading to War is a film that indicts Bush and his warmongers by using their own words and their own blatant lies. It covers the period following September 11th, 2001 leading up to the onset of the illegal aggression against Iraq.

From the film makers:

How does a government lead its people to war? How does it communicate to its citizens – and to the wider world – the reasons and rationale for initiating military conflict? What rhetorical devices and techniques are employed? And how is a nation brought to support the profound decision to wage war against another nation?

LEADING TO WAR is comprised entirely of archival news footage – without commentary, without voiceover – presented chronologically from President Bush’s State of the Union address in January, 2002 (the “axis of evil” speech), and continuing up to the announcement of formal U.S. military action in Iraq on March 19, 2003.

This compressed, chronological view offers a unique opportunity to examine the media record from a historical perspective, allowing the material to speak for itself.

Looking back on it, it’s both terrifying and comical how so many people were duped by such a wafer thin argument delivered by a gang of utterly unconvincing thugs.

It’s also worth noting that this whole recent business in the UK about whether the war was legal or not is rendered irrelevant as you hear Bush admit on camera that the policy of his administration was regime change in Iraq – a war crime as defined without ambiguity in International law.

Bush’s little helper, Tony Blair, makes a couple of appearances, cutting an absolutely pathetic figure and reminding us it is not only Americans who can be stupidly naive.

The film is free to view online and available with subtitles in a large number of languages. Worth a watch.