You know, a mobius strip, the 3-dimensional geometric shape that perpetually turns back on itself. Anyway in my daily musings around the internet, I've run into a quote by Max Hastings who is a "veteran war correspondent" or so 75% of the media tells me. I've never even heard of the guy. Anyway, on with the quote, "The Prime Minister committed British troops and sacrificed British lives on the basis of a deceit" which seems to be the over whelming critizism of all the anti-war-mongers (as mongering of all that is anti-war). So I'm putting all personal feelings aside (not really) and will apply some good old fashioned logic. Here we go:

If you were hell-bent on going to war, and needed an excuse to passify the public, there are too reasonings you can give. They are guilty of unspeakable evil, or they are getting ready to hurt us. Either way, you've got to pick up the tab at some point. You need proof of whatever excuse you used. It doesn't matter if you make it up or not, just as long as the masses believe you. After the war you have total control over the other country and can basically do whatever you want. So the only real question when waging war is, which reason do you give. This choice is futher simplified by what evidence you have to work with. Proving unspeakable evil is pretty easy, write some fiery speeches, find some heart-wrenching stories, and back it up with a bunch of dead people. Proving threat is more complicated, takes lots of military intelligence, and motice oporendi, and I'm not going to explain it here, suffice to say, it's pretty freaking hard. So your choice all depends on what you can prove, keeping in mind that nobody will allow you excuses because you control the whole country afterwards.

Thus logic dictates, that it's not wise to lie about intelligence in order to wage a war that will prove that you are lying. It's like shooting yourself in the foot, except the bullet takes a few months to get there. Tony Blair is a pretty smart guy, and by and large, so is the Bush administration. I'm going to assume they thought of this long ago, thus leaving me with but a few options of history.

1. The intelligence was total crap.
2. Intelligence was good and somewhere in Iraq there is a bunker full of anthrax
3. Blair and Bush lied, and should be classified as legally retarded.

Only time will tell, and I'm not off the WMD bandwagon yet.