No Amos, it doesn't boggle the mind. Teribus is an ideologue. He isn't swayed by new information, because his mind gets made up once, and for all time, regardless of the facts that emerge later.

And actually, what should boggle the mind is how many ideologues just like Teribus there are voting. They make up their minds once, and for all time. There will be many people who will not change their minds about the conduct of the Bush and Blair administrations, even when their own administration's experts come out and say the Bush and Blair administrations manipulated and spun the intelligence to fit their political agenda.

Which HAS happened in both countries. Personally, I fault the media and it's acquiesence to the media titans and kings (including in the now infamous case in Britain over the BBC & WMD constroversy) insistence before the war, that the Blair and Bush administration stories were not only not to investigated independently, but that they shouldn't even be challenged, despite all the red flags that were sent up in the lead up to the war.

The media establishment is colluding with the political establishment, to further the agenda of the wealthy elites in Europe and the US. The only reason why France, Germany, and Russia weren't on board was because they weren't getting a piece of the action.