Deception and Denial
It becomes increasingly clear that George W. Bush is incapable of acknowledging a mistake. His sociopathic delusions very effectively lock out any facts that disagree with his messianic view of the world, very much like the secret service so neatly isolates our so-called president from any who might dare to openly protest his crazed policies. And apparently his disease is contagious, as Tony Blair's reason seems similarly incapacitated regarding Iraq. In a scathing expose of this mania in The Guardian, former leader of the House of Commons Robin Cook devestatingly lays out how misguided pre-war statements were, and how amnesiacal current denials are.
In neat parallel with the inflation of pre-war intelligence by the Bush administration, Blair's government chose to highlight worst-case scenarios, discard caveats and qualifications, and hide evolving intelligence analysis when it conflicted with their script.
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