Tony Blairs statements in front of the “Iraq inquiry” are so full of logical fallacies they will make anyones head spin. Here the distilled version of what he said in my words:
Yes, we know 9/11 had nothing to do with Iraq, but because it did, we had to invade.
We know that containment worked very well on Iraq, but because 9/11 had nothing to do with Iraq, we also had to change our opinion about containment.
No, we did not find WMDs, but because we knew they didn’t have any and couldn’t launch them in less than 45 minutes, we had to invade. We probably should have made that clearer.
No, we did not agree with Bush that war was necessary, unless necessary, although we agreed with Bush to go to war if he so chose, which we knew he would. Because we knew that, we wrote so in a memo. But that was never the plan.
And there is more after Blair has had some lunch.
