Recent eruptions of moral nullity: Blair's confession, Obama's Nobel defense

clipped from www.chris-floyd.com In recent days we have all witnessed two vomitous eruptions of moral nullity that would tax the powers of a Voltaire or a Vidal to do them proper justice; they quite o'er-crow the meager gifts of a hack like me. But I will sketch a few observations here nonetheless, if only to add one more small voice to those few who bear witness to the evils perpetrated by our unaccountable leaders. We speak of course of Barack Obama's Nobel speech and Tony Blair's recent comments on the Iraq War.  last week, Blair gave an interview to a friendly, timorous chat-show host in which he made the brazen admission – no, the proud boast – that all this WMD guff is meaningless. He would have found "other arguments" to persuade Britons to follow George W. Bush into the war that American militarists had long been planning. Obama's Peace Prize speech A narcissist's defense soaring proclamation of American exceptionalism, in a setting supposedly devoted to universal principles of peace breathtaking in its chutzpah