© GRAEME ROBERTSON/GETTY IMAGESGordon Brown with Tony Blair at a 2005 press conference
So for ex-prime minister Gordon Brown to say in his just-published memoirs, that he wished he had done more to stop Britain taking military action against Iraq's president Saddam Hussein by standing shoulder to shoulder with US president George W Bush in March 2003, is not entirely convincing.
In London, an estimated two million anti-war protesters were ignored by the Blair government which insisted Saddam had weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) ready to be fired within 45 minutes.
Brown, a principled man, could have taken the Labour party with him had he chosen to oppose the war, but instead, he was quite aggressive in backing Blair. Now he claims the Americans had intelligence that threw doubt on whether Saddam possessed WMDs, but that this was not shared with Britain, which was "misled" by its closest ally.
Comment: Indeed; his words have bite once you realize who is behind animals like Robertson.
So there you have it, reported in black-and-white: the man accused of being solely responsible for pulling off the largest mass shooting in US history (until the Vegas terror attack) had a high-level US govt handler.
But almost no one picks it up or realizes the report's significance because people's brains have turned to mush.
Mateen was obviously not the, or at least the only, shooter at the Pulse Nightclub that night:
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