MER - One Western Politician In Sights for Crimes in IRAQ - Guess Who? Guess for What!

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <br> <br>This week, I am reliably informed, the police will act - and whom do you think they have in their sights? Is it Bush or Rumsfeld or Cheney? Have they found a member of the American administration to take the rap for the disgusting scenes in Abu Ghraib? <br> <br>Is it Blair, brought to book after the Commons failed to impeach him? Is it Alastair Campbell, unrepentant sexer-up of the dodgy dossier? No, my friends, we are not so lucky. None of the major players is going to be arraigned for the Iraq disaster, and the long arm of the law is instead reaching out - incredibly - for me. <br> <br>I am informed by my friends in the Metropolitan Police that I am shortly to become the one and only Western politician to be brought to justice for crimes committed in Iraq. My transgression? I have somewhere in my possession a cigar case that once belonged to Tariq Aziz.... <br> <br>And yet, of course, there is something magnificent in the very absurdity of the case. It may seem vexatious and trivial, but the law is the law, and no one can count himself exempt even from its weirder ramifications. This principle is the foundation of freedom. <br> <br>It is, after all, what we were fighting for in Iraq, and it is with a glad heart that I now propose to hand the cigar case over - though it would be nice, I have to admit, if they arrested Blair and the real culprits instead. <b on></b> </body>