The trial of George W. Bush, Tony Blair, and the gang that got us into the Iraq War has now begun, after a fashion. It's not taking place in the United States. And it doesn't call itself a trial at all. There won't be any convictions, nor even any conclusions likely until 2011. We won't see ex-president Bush, or Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, or George Tenet in the dock. But Great Britain's long-awaited Iraq Inquiry is about as close as we'll get to an exhaustive investigation of the people and decisions that took the Americans, the British, and their motley Coalition of the Willing into dubious battle against Baghdad in 2003.
