Hard as it is to believe

In 2002 and 2003, Tony Blair cravenly got enough Torie support along with Labour loyalist to get the same blank check (oh sorry blanc cheque) George Bush got in a similar fashion through opposite constituencies.

And unlike here, Blair is now paying for it from the right and left;

The former prime minister Sir John Major has condemned as "inadequate" his successor Tony Blair's justification for the Iraq war.

Major criticised Blair's handling of the war and his presentation of the case for invasion in March 2003. He said the Chilcott inquiry into the Iraq war was raising serious questions about the justification for the invasion and whether the government knew at the time that Saddam Hussein no longer had weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

In an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Major dismissed the argument recently put forward by Blair that the Iraqi dictator was a bad man and needed to be removed...

"There are many bad men around the world who run countries and we don't topple them, and indeed in earlier years we had actually supported Saddam Hussein when he was fighting against Iran," Major said.

"The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change."

Yet this shit gets consistently ignored by our be-diapered beltway press who no longer having Vietnam to refight seem determined to constantly live in 2002.