No wonder the cabal want 'closure'

SUZANNE MOORE: So their dossier was sexed-up

16th May 2011 - The word closure is surely one of the most irritating around. People use it about everything from minor mishaps to the death of a child, until it loses meaning.

It sometimes signals an end to trauma but the whole point about a real traumatic experience is that, like history, it keeps reverberating.

The idea that we can achieve ‘closure’ about something as controversial as the Iraq War is delusional.

‘We are where we are’ is the constant refrain now about Afghanistan – as it was about Iraq and doubtless will be about Libya.

The old lie is that we left Iraq in victory and in better shape. Most of us thought this was the wrong war in the wrong country.

Many top diplomats and military types said as much.

The politicians who took us to war ignored them, as they ignored the peaceful demonstrations.

They were busy scaring each other with ‘evidence’. Agreements were made at the top of government, bonds that still seem unshakeable.

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Thousands of Iraqis are dead, military families are still lost in grief but those who pushed for this war appear to have lost little.

Sure, there have been the inquiries – Butler, Hutton, Chilcot – where they have been cleared of wrongdoing. But evidence is still coming in to Chilcot. {continued}