The false war cry that left millions grieving 

I understand, as far as a Brit can, David Huffman’s heartfelt thoughts about what George W Bush and company did in the name of the American people.
Unaccountable villainy is, however, a recurring thread that runs through the global polity when we look to take our erstwhile, and indeed in some situations current, leaders to task for high crimes and misdemeanours. Machiavelli’s instructive if cynical words inform us however that leaders, in order to govern effectively, must operate on a different moral plane to the rest of us. So, there are empty spaces gathering dust in the Hague, pointlessly waiting for these pernicious people to stand trial for taking us to war without a viable casus belli.
From a UK standpoint we have Blair and his myrmidons who are also culpable with their risible “dodgy dossier”, a scaremongering tome that perhaps might have been nominated for the Man Booker prize for creative fiction, and replete with so-called analysis threatening Saddam’s near-imminent use of battlefield WMD that “could” be deployed on near hair-trigger notice.
Alongside the lives of brave American, British and other Coalition troops lost to a false prospectus, we have Mr Huffman’s relevant reminder about the number of Iraqi lives squandered. He says 200,000 – the Lancet medical journal puts the figure as high as 600,000 – all of which is moot, and it’s probably better if you don’t think about it too much. Not one of those people should have to be mourned by those they leave behind.  
To those who brought all of this about: shame on you.
Dr Frank