It is interesting to see the evolution of blogs and blogging generally. Increasingly blogs are becoming the source of choice for many seeking information or news on this or that. In fact, many bloggers were given accreditation, alongside the mainstream media, to the GOP and Democratic Conventions in the USA last year. Now comes news that Yahoo will include blogs as part of its search engine. Google is one step behind but it won't be long before they too will have to acknowledge that blogs and blogging is a force to be reckoned with.
Most commentary on the Chilcot Inquiry Report of and associated with the Iraq War, has been "lifted" from the Executive Summary. The Intercept has actually gone and dug into the Report, with these revelations : "THE CHILCOT REPORT, the U.K.’s official inquiry into its participation in the Iraq War, has finally been released after seven years of investigation. Its executive summary certainly makes former Prime Minister Tony Blair, who led the British push for war, look terrible. According to the report, Blair made statements about Iraq’s nonexistent chemical, biological, and nuclear programs based on “what Mr. Blair believed” rather than the intelligence he had been given. The U.K. went to war despite the fact that “diplomatic options had not been exhausted.” Blair was warned by British intelligence that terrorism would “increase in the event of war, reflecting intensified anti-US/anti-Western sentiment in the Muslim world, including among Muslim communities in the
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