Palau already put the boot into Hazel Blears [again-P] last week for writing a mendacious attack on George Monbiot, but now the latter shows that he’s quite capable of twisting the knife himself as well:
Let me remind you just how far your political “guts” have carried you. You are temporarily protected by the fact that the United Kingdom, unlike other states, has not yet incorporated the Nuremberg principles into national law. If a future government does so, you and all those who remained in the cabinet on 20 March 2003 will be at risk of prosecution for what the Nuremberg tribunal called “the supreme international crime”. This is defined as the “planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression”. Robin Cook, a man of genuine political courage, put his conscience ahead of his career and resigned. What did you do?
As the kids say, read the whole thing.
UPDATE:
Here’s Blears’ considered response to Monbiot from today’s Grauniad letters page :
Re the “open letter” by George Monbiot (10 February): George, I would like to invite you to Salford, and allow some of my young party members and myself to show you round our city. Then you will see why I’ve been voting Labour in the Commons these past 12 years.
Hazel Blears MP
Secretary of state for communities
Blears, that’s just lame.
EDIT: Shorter Hazel Blears: “Monbiot, you don’t know man, you weren’t there!”