Presented as a shock? - Why?

'An explosive secret letter that exposes how Tony Blair lied over the legality of the Iraq War can be revealed.
The Chilcot Inquiry into the war will interrogate the former Prime Minister over the devastating 'smoking gun' memo, which warned him in the starkest terms the war was illegal.'

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1231746/Secret-letter-reveal-new-Blair-war-lies.html#ixzz0YE5j18R3


This only confirms about Blair what most had already realised. Why is it that the governments who are most willing to use our Armed Services at the drop of a hat, are the ones most likely to cut Service budgets beyond the point of sanity?

Surely - 'an illegal war' = the fact that the leader responsible is a war criminal and if not why not?