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George W Bush and Tony Blair must be held to account for feeding the public a vast tapestry of lies about the Iraq war.

Most politicians are interested not in truth but in power and the maintenance of that power. Politicians feel it is essential that people remain in ignorance, that they live in ignorance of the truth, even the truth of their own lives.

The US justification for invading Iraq - that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction - was not true.

The truth is something entirely different. The truth is to do with how the United States understands its role in the world and how it chooses to embody it. Since World War II the US government supported and in many cases engendered every right-wing military dictatorship in the world. I refer to Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti, Turkey, the Philippines, Guatemala, El Salvador and, of course, Chile.

You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good.

The pathetic and supine Great Britain is a bleating little lamb tagging behind the US on a lead.

President Bush and Prime Minister Blair have to be arraigned before the International Criminal Court of Justice. But Bush has been clever. He has not ratified the International Criminal Court of Justice.

Thousands, if not millions of people in the US are sickened, shamed and angered by their government's actions.

Harold Pinter