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> Were George W. Bush and Tony Blair held accountable for lying about WMD and launching an illegal war of aggression against Iraq? Yes, they (and their politic
by afterburner 4y ago
> Were George W. Bush and Tony Blair held accountable for lying about WMD and launching an illegal war of aggression against Iraq?
Yes, they (and their political parties) lost power in elections a few years later. Try that in China.
- Phlarp 4y agoGeorge Bush was reelected for a second term and didn't leave office until he was unable to run for it again. He was reelected because of his role in foreign interventions not in spite of them.
- afterburner 4y agoThe Republican party was run out of the Presidency, Senate, and House in 2008. Xi looks like he'll be dictator for life. And the people didn't elect him.
- l3mure 4y agoThe notion that losing an election is "accountability" for mass murder and the deliberate demolition of an entire state is genuinely deranged. Accountability would be Bush, Cheney, Bremer, Tenet, et al getting the Mussolini treatment in the middle of Baghdad, anything less is a farce.
- afterburner 4y agoDemocracy offers more accountability (at the very least removal from power) than any authoritarian regime. And it does so automatically every few years.