The torture memos show how illegal wars turn even the nicest people bad

guardian.co.uk — An article on the Smirking Chimp website described the Chilcot inquiry as redundant to American Politics. Well just for the record or anyone out there with an abiding sense of right and wrong.......

"The so-called war on terror saw a politically weak American president seek popularity in redefining a criminal act as a "war between states". Tony Blair agreed. His assertion to the Chilcot inquiry that "9/11 changed everything" was self-serving. The attack was just the latest in a line of attempted terrorist atrocities by Islamist extremists, albeit one that succeeded horrifically.

To call such crimes acts of war gives them rhetorical force, but in no sense did al-Qaida or its imitators threaten the integrity or security of a western state. These countries are too strong for such threat to be meaningful..."

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