Torturing, lying, murdering cockroaches slink away into the darkness, their crimes unpunished, as we bicker over whether or not we deserve to be healthy. What in the hell went wrong?

Most Americans are blissfully in the dark about it, but across the Atlantic in the UK, a commission reluctantly established by Prime Minister Gordon Brown under pressure from anti-war activists in Britain is beginning hearings into the actions and statements of British leaders that led to the country?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s joining the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Even before testimony began in hearings that started yesterday, news began to leak out from documents obtained by the commission that the government of former PM Tony Blair had lied to Parliament and the public about the country?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s involvement in war planning.

Britain?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s Telegraph newspaper over the weekend published documents from British military leaders, including a memo from British special forces head Maj. Gen. Graeme Lamb, saying that he had been instructed to begin ?¢‚Ǩ?ìworking the war up since early 2002.?¢‚Ǩ¬ù

This means that Blair, who in July 2002, had assured members of a House of Commons committee that there were ?¢‚Ǩ?ìno preparations to invade Iraq,?¢‚Ǩ¬ù was lying.

(British Inquiry: Blair Conspired with Bush as Early as 2002 to Plot Iraq Invasion)