SPEAKING ILL OF THE DEAD
The official enquiry in the UK into the ups & downs & ins & outs of the Dr David Kelly business is now under way. To bring readers who missed the first episode of this latest Iraq War spin-off series up to speed, weapons expert Dr Kelly was, allegedly, the sole source for a BBC claim that Downing Street ësexed upí their data concerning WMD in order to justify credibly the invasion. Tragically, just as the story was finding its feet, David Kelly took his own life. After a brief hiatus in the playground brawl that was going on between Downing Street & the BBC (experts set its duration at approximately seven minutes), shrill accusation & counter accusation concerning the claims began to fly.
Hardly surprising, then, that with the inevitable deadlock that results from a situation based entirely on one partyís word against another, the combatants should cast around looking for another target. Who better, of course, than the late Dr David Kelly himself. So some slack mouthed fuckwit in the corridors of power has branded him publicly as a fantasist. Apparently an unnamed source has stated, ëThe guy was a Walter Mittyí. There is even talk of this unhappy utterance having been tape-recorded. Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has expressed great regret & urged that, before the funeral takes place & the enquiry findings are made public, discretion should be the order of the day. Red faces all round then & sensible dialogue drowned by the clattering sound of someoneís balls rolling down those very corridors. We await disclosure of the castrati's name.
With so many instances of governmental foot-shootings, the Tory opposition might as well shut up shop & go foxhunting. At least the target has a powerful sense of self-preservation.
12:57:44 AM 
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