This is worth putting in a great quotes file:


Tony Blair on the U.N. route: "President Chirac said on Monday: 'No matter what the circumstances, we will vote No.' Those were not the words of someone who wants to make the international system work."

Thus, the shoe is placed on the correct foot. The burden of proof has never been on the U.S. and the U.K. The evidence of Saddam's monstrosity is too plain to be denied. Only the cynical and amoral, like the international press and the Old Europeans, would get that reversed. Blair's answer was Churchillian.