Re: Blair didn't bother to take proper advice


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"The Todal" <deadmailbox@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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As most of us had already suspected, it seems Blair is actually rather a
dimwit, despite having gone to Oxford (just like Boris Johnson).

I wonder why the other members of the cabinet didn't have the guts to
stand up to him, and why we should vote for this discredited team to
continue to lead the country.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2244183,00.html

"We all pretty much said the same thing," Joffe recalls. "Iraq is a very
complicated country, there are tremendous intercommunal resentments, and
don't imagine you'll be welcomed."

The plumber pursed his lips and said "it's a highly technical job, you
know; best not tackle anything for fear of upsetting the density
equilibriliser at the back end of the Storey gate valve mechanism, and if
you push the pressure up beyond 13 bars you risk upsetting the dispenser
spigot. Best not try anything at all".

You're saying that Blair found the advice too technical and too baffling,
and that rather than try to get his mind around it, he thought it would be
best to simply follow the American lead. That might be true, except that
if he found it too technical and too baffling he was in the wrong job.

Or possibly that the "advice" was deliberately couched in terms which could
mean anything to anybody, so that whatever subsequently transpired the
advisor could argue either that he warned against it or that it was all his
idea (as required by the context). In this repect it clearly shows that the
advisor is a cynical waste of DNA, and certainly not someone whose
(undoubtedly impressive) fees should be funded from the public purse.

War is just God's way of telling us to burn more civil servants.

PDR


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