Road to Surfdom answers accusations of naiviety in actually believing Bush and co about those Weapons of Mass Destruction
Representative, accountable democratic government, therefore, comes down to the fact that elected individuals have to tell the truth about what they are doing in our name and if they don’t, they either cease being our representatives or get their lying arses into jail, depending on the seriousness of the deception.
These conditions are non-negotiable. They are not something to be bent like a pipe- cleaner to fit the crevices of the latest political miscalculation. They are the thing through which we judge how well those who work for us are doing their job.
At this stage, we don’t know if they lied, if they just got it wrong, or if something else happened. The reason we don’t know is because they won’t tell us. Until such time as they do, the only people burying their head in the sand are the ones who won’t ask the questions in the first place.