When elective representative government really works

In February of 2003 then Secretary of State Colin Powell went before the UN Security Council to laid out the evidence that would lead to the invasion of Iraq in March of that year.  Everything Secretary Powell told the Security Council was a lie.  Fabricated evidenced based upon the accusations of one person known to the CIA as Curveball a man who claimed to have been an engineer  working to develop Iraq's arsenal of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.  The Bush administration bought it hook, line and sinker because they wanted to believe that no matter how outrageous the claims Iraq had these weapons.  

In July of 2003 the Iraq survey group announced that no weapons of mass destruction had been found in Iraq and that there was clear evidence that  programs had been dismantled  in the aftermath of the first Gulf War.

Yesterday the British House of Commons voted by a narrow margin (13 votes) to deny David Cameron's government the right to involve  Great Britain  in the American scheme to attack Syria for that governments use of chemical weapons against its civilian population.  A majority voiced concern over the lack of concrete evidence of just what happened and who actually carried out the attack.  MP's invoked the memory of Iraq over and over again unwilling to useful fools to justify military action against Syria.