The Sky is Imminently Falling Down

Once upon a time : The sky was imminently falling down.

Have we learnt a lesson yet?

The UK does war. War regularly. War on an imminent scale.

Once upon a time the UK went to war. Went to war AGAIN...

A personage entitled: Sir John Chilcot, was appointed to undertake an inquiry to find out why the UK went to war/ing, again.

Chilcot stated: "This is an Inquiry by a committee of Privy Councilors. It will consider the period from the summer of 2001 to the end of July 2009 ...We will therefore be considering the UK's involvement... to establish, as accurately as possible, what happened and to identify the lessons that can be learned...".

As legend has it: Bliar Blair, the hero, signed a pact in blood with George W Bush, the antagonist and that pact was sealed on 28 July 2002 via Bliar Blair, pledging his undying willingness to serve Bush, through a faithful declaration of : “I will be with you, whatever". A very loyal statement to make Indeed! A statement to hold on firm to incase there ever happened to be an event, an event such as, the sky, imminently falling down, for instance? That pact came in handy actually, when the sky imminently, did begin falling down. The threat: “ had to be dealt with”. The threat of the sky falling down: 'was declared an official imminent, event and was duly broadcast on the Sky News network on 20th March 2003.

The sky was 'imminently' falling down ! don't you see?

Those that listened to the rumble of the sky consisted of no lesser than the ears of the UN security council, the: ‘coalition of the willing', various special commissions and some UK Mps with mouths aghast, exclaiming: OOOH !  

Many others listened in as well and recount hearing from the sky news broadcast system, that the sky was imminently, falling down. This imminence, was caused in no lesser part, by a stash of 10,000 litres of anthrax; a host of other biological poisons; and an entire Scud missile programme. This stash had become lost in the sky, weighing so heavily in the atmosphere, that the sky was imminently falling down! A couple of protesters, about 2 million, in the UK , took to the streets, looked up and declared the sky was not, in fact, imminently, falling down. However, that fact fell on deaf ears.

China, also listened in on the broadcast and became a tad: 'worried and uneasy'. To say the least. The Cameroon, Chili, Guinea and Pakistan also chipped in stating  that they had also taken a peek at the sky and saw no evidence of an imminent threat of it falling. Non the less, just to be on the safe side, they offered that maybe another peek might be in order? Just to be safe, just to be sure? Bulgaria, suggested that it would support the use of military force, to hold up the sky, even without UN backing. Spain agreed. Germany and France declared they would do all they could to avert further destruction from the imminent threat, of the sky falling down. Russia, decided that no one should try and hold up the sky without a UN resolution and certainly, never alone. Syria, declared that the sky was not imminently, falling down at all. In fact, Syria, declared, the sky was cooperating and meeting its obligations under UN resolutions and everyone should just go about their daily business. A lesson in speaking out, that Syria, was later to learn, to it's own detriment.  

Anyway, Bliar Blair and the Straw men continued on constructing relational networks of low ways, byways and highways to the sky. Even appealing for a second resolution. However, they were unable to convince a skeptical 'security' council of this imminence. After all, listening and seeing are two different senses. Thus it prevailed that the 15-member United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441 that was decreed on that day,  November 8, 2002, appeared as: Upheld and did not authorize the March 2003 war on Iraq. Deaf to this suggestion, Bliar Blair and the Strawmen marched back up the : 'Capitol Hill' , pointed to the sky and shouted loudly: the 'sky is falling down'.

So Mote it Be! in March, 2003 the USA announced that "diplomacy has failed" and it would proceed to scud rocket, through the sky with a: "coalition of the willing". 

That day, the sky began to fall down.

Robin Cook who was in charge of the part of the sky that was ' foreign' and Dr David Kelly who was an expert in WMDs , also fell down. Fell down dead, in the woods and the summit of Ben Stack 2,365ft above sea level, dropped dead, just like that! The fallen now consists of: “at least 150,000 Iraqis – and probably many more – most of them civilians.... more than a million people displaced” and Saddam Hussein, wailing: "long live Muqtada al-Sadr," as he was last heard croaking, hanging, from the sky.

That's why their was an inquiry, you see! There were whispers, of course! rumors, that perhaps the sky was not imminently falling down, those also fell on deaf ears and no one heard from the inquiry for another seven years.

Then, once upon a time... on 6th July 2016, the Iraq Inquiry, fell, slap bang from out of the sky, into in the middle of the UK. It stated that: The committee of the Privy Councilors  have declared that they had considered the events of the period from the summer of 2001 to the end of July 2009 and had identified lessons to be learned.

Lessons learnt?

Number 1: "It is now clear that policy on Iraq was made on the basis of flawed intelligence and assessments. They were not challenged, and they should have been."

( At least, 2 million people marching, looking up at the sky and shouting, that the sky was not imminently falling down, were not challenging enough)

Number 2: The pledge signed in blood  

(much blood was pledged indeed!) 

Number 3: Bliar Blairs, September 2002 Commons statement and dossier on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction made judgments that: “were presented with a certainty that was not justified”

(no one took a second look)

Number 4: What appears to mark the ‘ Iraq’ war different from the other wars ,

is that in the ‘Iraq’ war’,  the UK only lost 179 UK personnel, their lives. This tally of 179 deaths is a vastly reduced number, if we compare it to, for instance; The Somme, 100 years ago, on 1st July 1916. On Somme day, the British forces suffered 57,470 casualties, including 19,240 fatalities. After all we only gained three square miles of territory then.

('We' now have in a grasp, miles and miles of oil filled pipelines and Daesh)  

Number 5 There was “no imminent threat” of the sky falling down.

(There was “no imminent threat” of the sky falling down.)