Accountability

I been listening to this song lately. Peace Train. Its sung by a cat. Honest. That's what dad says. Anyhow, this cat asks the question 'Why must we go on hating. Why cant we live in bliss.' And this question is the subject of my blog.

I reckons the answer is simple. As humans, you lot make mistakes, just like us dogs. Us dogs learn by being made accountable. Like when I went in the bin last week, I was locked in the bathroom for an hour (well actually mum let me out after 5 minutes, but she made me promise to never tell anyone). Without accountability nothing works.
If criminals are allowed to steal and kill without being brought to account, well, before long we would have big problems.
Accountability is central to the idea of pursuing a world where 'we stop hating and learn to live in bliss.'

Now, I am 11, and in my life I have seen a few things. But the worst thing I have seen is the terrible killing of a Million Iraqis by two liars.

Not only did that disgusting Bush man drop Barney (His Scottie) on his head on a concrete floor, he also lied straight to the face of the Americans.
He said 'Iraq is bad. They have weapons of mass destruction. Trust me. We need to to go and massacre a million of them to show that we are capable of making expensive weapons that generate huge profits for my friends.' Actually he may not have said the last bit openly, but everyone knows about Halliburton and such. Anyhow, of particular interest to us dogs is what he did next. He found an English Poodle, named him 'Yo Blair' and told him to lie to his Country men along the same lines. So 'Yo Blair' did. But the English weren't quite as dumb as their American cousins and about a Million of them came out to protest the imminent War of terror on Iraq. This I am told was the largest protest in British history. No event fired up more opposition from the British public than the poodle led threat to commit Britain to Bush's war game.

Tony 'Poodle' Blair lied straight to he face of the British electorate who had placed their trust in him. 'Weapons of Mass destruction will rain down on us from Iraq if we don't immediately go and kill a Million of them' is how my friend Max (The Doberman) paraphrased Poodle Blair's speech.
Anyhow. these two thugs told a whole bunch of lies, explained how god told them it was what he wanted and then of they went to kill a Million Iraqis, or, to be more specific, off they sent a bunch of youngsters from disadvantaged backgrounds who form the life blood of any Army needing its cannon fodder kids willing to kill on command for the price of three meals a day. Thousands of those American kids from Buttmunch Nebraska and similar died in Iraq, and hundreds from the UK. All because Bush and Poodle Blair lied their way into starting that atrocity.

And heres my point. People said at the time. Bush is lying. Blair is lying. Blair said 'I am not lying. Trust me. Iraq needs to be bombed. We need to destroy their education system. We need to kill approximately 1 million of their citizens, and most importantly, we need to do whatever my friend in God, George Bush says we must do.' But of course Blair was lying. And Bush said 'Those Al Quida Iraqi guys bombed our Towers and now they threaten the safety of America with their weapons of Mass destruction. Trust me. We need to bomb them and kill around about a Million of them. Its really important. Dick says so. Donald says so too. Who you gonna trust Saddam Hussein or me, Dick and Donald.' But of course Bush was lying.

And so George and Tony, brothers in God, warmongering and lying set off to kill a Million Iraqis. They succeeded. But unfortunately, somehow, people noticed that they committed America and Britain to war based on bald-faced-lies.

If Blair and Bush are not charged with war crimes for lying their way to the execution of a Million people who meant us no harm, but whose relatives now most certainly do, then Blair and Bush will have got away with it. And if they get away with it, then, we live in a world where mass murderers walk amongst us, known to a majority, but somehow remaining unaccountable.

A million people died because two people lied. Betraying their office. Betraying the trust of Hundreds of Millions who voted them in. This is not a small thing that can be overlooked on the ground of diplomatic immunity. It is deliberate premeditated mass murder.

Don't let them get away with it.