For Justice, Decency and Our Way of Life

Although the Reverend Blair had few scruples about putting Britain's plucky little soldiers in the firing line in the service of the late Dick Cheney and his pet chimpanzee, the possibility of their being answerable for war crimes was clearly a different matter. His reverence took care to ensure that British soldiers suspected of beating an Iraqi prisoner to death would not be tried except by other British soldiers who would understand, rather than by the International Criminal Court which is mostly for wogs, or by a civilian court which might imagine that bigger and richer war criminals ought to be made answerable as well. Eventually a corporal was found guilty of inhumanity towards civilians, cashiered and sentenced to a slightly shorter term in jail than is currently being served, without trial, by several people who objected to inhumanity towards civilians.