Operation BYOBS - Bring your own BS

How cute. It only took Blair two months to come up with this novel defense on the damning information contained in the Downing St Minutes. Taking a page from the Rove handbook for handling public relations disasters - and God knows Karl has a lot of experience with that - Blair has decided to skip the facts and simply deny everything.

He appears to be at inept at lying as Karl's main client however. He raises as his defense that he did everything the Minutes detailed as necessary to carrying out the subterfuge. In effect he's admitting the Minutes are true and offering that as proof that they are false because that's what any world leader would do, mislead his people for their own good.

Who knew he had such a facility for languages? He seems to have learned Bushspeak in record time.