Ignorance is bliss- (for Labour)

To Labour’s advantage, most people are not interested in politics to the extent of actively digging out information. If they were, Labour would comprehensively lose this election. Anyone who bothers to study in detail events surrounding the Iraq war cannot but be struck by the battery of lies and deceit employed to strengthen the case for war. Throughout 2002, Blair made statements with conviction and certainty that Iraq had WMD. It is now clear that those statements were not based on the prevailing intelligence at the time- which was cautious and stressed the lack of authoritative information emerging from Iraq. It is now clear that Blair was the auteur of the whole episode. The whole machinery of government was used, and abused, to ensure the PM got his way.