I can understand, I think, why Campbell still feels so obsessed with the events of 2003. Although Hutton was, of course, a tactical triumph for him, with a knockout victory in the report and three good BBC scalps, it was an unparalleled strategic disaster. If his aim in taking us on was to disprove my story about the sexed-up dossier and restore trust in Tony Blair, it simply could not have been more counter-productive.
At Bournemouth this week, with only a handful of exceptions, Labour members and MPs have, as always, been friendly and even sometimes complimentary to me. Some of them know me from when I was a Labour activist. But mostly, of course, it is that over the dossier, almost everybody in the party, as in the country, accepts (broadly) my version of events, rather than Campbell's.
That, I'm sure, is why Campbell still feels compelled endlessly to revisit those events, even now. If he was genuinely innocent and victorious, he wouldn't need to keep protesting his innocence and victoriousness. People often complain to me that he and Blair escaped punishment. Although they did, of course, avoid the legal and judicial sanctions which they deserved, both received a harsher punishment - having their true natures exposed to the world - and a much more severe penalty: life sentences in the court of public opinion.
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I couldn't find the quote I was looking for over at the MediaLens.org website acrhive regarding the Hutton/Butler Inquiries -
- but Prof Chomsky is quoted as saying something along the lines that only western liberal elites wouldn't find it surprising that an enquiry set up by the British government to investigate evidence of any wrong doing on its part would find it not guilty!
I mean, this is classic Soviet Union utopianism - the government sets up an inquiry into its own wrong doing and finds itself not guilty!
Only the western brainwashed would be surpised at such an outcome!
All the best RuT!
Posted by: joe90 | 01 October 2007 at 06:01 PM
Aye, and that's a least is something in the way of justice. Is AC still whining on?
Posted by: aineliva | 02 October 2007 at 05:50 PM