It's tough to get away with a good lie. Too many people are paying attention. And too many people are taking notes. When you lie about war, well, those bodies do tend to pile up after a while.

This week's war lie belongs to Tony Blair. The London Independent reports:

The Government's case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.

A devastating attack on Mr Blair's justification for military action by Carne Ross, Britain's key negotiator at the UN, has been kept under wraps until now because he was threatened with being charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act.

In the testimony revealed today Mr Ross, 40, who helped negotiate several UN security resolutions on Iraq, makes it clear that Mr Blair must have known Saddam Hussein possessed no weapons of mass destruction. He said that during his posting to the UN, "at no time did HMG [Her Majesty's Government] assess that Iraq's WMD (or any other capability) posed a threat to the UK or its interests."

Mr Ross revealed it was a commonly held view among British officials dealing with Iraq that any threat by Saddam Hussein had been "effectively contained".

Shouldn't someone ask George W. Bush about this? The fickle finger of fate is pointing in his direction, too. According to the article, Mr. Ross "also reveals that British officials warned US diplomats that bringing down the Iraqi dictator would lead to the chaos the world has since witnessed. 'I remember on several occasions the UK team stating this view in terms during our discussions with the US (who agreed),' he said. 'At the same time, we would frequently argue when the US raised the subject, that 'regime change' was inadvisable, primarily on the grounds that Iraq would collapse into chaos.'"

This all reminds me of the Downing Street Memos, documents which surfaced a few years ago from London which reported real-time concerns by Tony Blair's people that Bush and Co. were pell-mell rushing towards war, come hell or high water, without any real basis to think that Saddam posed a threat to anyone. In a rational world, someone's ass would be in a sling because of the Downing Street Memos, but George W's only punishment was re-election. For those of you worried that W. is not sleeping well, haunted by the deaths of thousands, don't worry. According to People magazine, he's sleeping like a baby. In some quarters, we have a name for people like this.