Bush, Blair and the Lies That Justified the Illegal Iraq War

The Chilcot report, released today by the British government, concluded what most have known for a long time: that Tony Blair took Britain to war on the basis of “flawed intelligence” before all peaceful means were exhausted. The US has never called for such an inquiry; if it did, the media’s dereliction of duty would loom large, as it did in this chapter from Robin Andersen’s A Century of Media, a Century of War (Peter Lang, 2006).