Misery just loves company

Misery and, apparently, injustice.

According to The Guardian, one Mr. Goldsmith's - the British Attorney General's 13-page memo has been declassified and published. Read it here.

May I call your attention to paragraphs 27-30? These contain such gems as "In these circumstances, I remain of the opinion that the safest legal course would be to secure the adoption of a further resolution to authorise the use of force."

Which, as we all know, didn't exactly happen.

Okay, so Tony Blair gets this 13-page chunk of legal advice, and, unless he's like the vast majority of American congressmen, reads it. That very same day, May 7 2003, then-UN weapons inspector Hans Blix said that Iraq had made progress in disarming itself. Goldsmith then changed his mind and told Blair that sure, going to war was a perfectly legal, great idea. Blair, throughout the ordeal up until recently, claimed that Goldsmith's legal advice had not changed.

So: a wavering, agenda-driven Attorney General, an agenda-driven, lying head of state, a dubiously-legal war despite a complete lack of evidence of said war's necessity...what country was this, again?