Tony Blair, who has finally said sorry for the Iraq War during an interview on CNN, which is due to be broadcast on Sunday
Daily Mail: 'I'm sorry': Historic moment Tony Blair FINALLY apologises for Iraq War and admits in TV interview the conflict caused the rise of ISIS
* Former PM makes the confession after 12 years of refusing to apologise
* Blair says he is sorry for his conduct which has now led to 'hell' in Iraq
* Says there is an element of truth that the war caused the rise of ISIS
* Comes after Lord Blunkett revealed he had challenged Blair about the war
Tony Blair has finally said sorry for the Iraq War – and admitted he could be partly to blame for the rise of Islamic State.
The extraordinary confession by the former Prime Minister comes after 12 years in which he refused to apologise for the conflict.
Blair makes his dramatic ‘mea culpa’ during a TV interview about the ‘hell’ caused by his and George Bush’s decision to oust Saddam Hussein.
More News On Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair Apologizing For The Iraq War
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Tony Blair says 'sorry for mistakes of Iraq war' and admits the conflict 'could have sparked ISIS threat' -- Mirror
Tony Blair apologizes for Iraq War -- The Hill
Tony Blair finally apologises for war in Iraq -- IBTimes
Tony Blair FINALLY apologises for Iraq War 'mistakes' and admits invasion helped ISIS -- Express
Tony Blair apologises for 'mistakes' over Iraq War and admits 'elements of truth' to view that invasion helped rise of Isis -- The Independent
4 comments:
If he had any honour, he'd swallow a bullet and leave his entire estate to the victims of his war of choice.
If there were any justice in the world, he would be rotting in a 4x 8 cell in The Hague.
We had more reason to go to war with Iraq, then we had to fight the ETA in Spain. I believe we had a right to go after the ETA. they certainly were scared. They declared a moratorium on violence for over a year after 911.
Drain the swamp.
Blair is a pimp who will never see a Hague jail cell. The Hague is for "those people" who, not being members of the "interational community" of exceptional gangster criminals, are subject to its selective of kangaroo justice.
"Drain the swamp."
I'm all for it but it is hard to accomplish whilst living in one. If the right to go after ETA, Hussein, Milosevic et al existed, surely the right to go after the House of Saud, that ever dependable ATM for terrorosts, stands true.
So when do we march on Riyahd?
Of course, the answer, my friends, is not blowing in the wind. It is flowing in the circuits (circus?) of capital between the decrepit, dementia afflicted, and over due to be defunct Saudi despots and their golf course tanned, big ranch running, big pharma pushing, monopoly oligarch bum buddies running the swamp over here.
A welfare check and an Obamaphone has more than a passing correlation with a fifty ton care package and a CIA training certificate. All things have their uses in a certain times and places. Even sump pumps can be reversed to fill rather than drain a swamp.
On the path of correlation, Marx told us that the dominant ideology of any society is the ideology of the dominant class. So, running the world streets with semi literate despots, clapping on and off terrorists of all manner (Contras, Azov/Right Sector anyone?) while declaring our "right" to do this or that finds its correlation in da hood wid I'm the baddest mo fo round here cuz I gots the bangers (and my niggaz) wid one nation unda him tatooed on my chest. Or, pay for my three kids by three daddies so I can have more for you to pay for. Is it not my right to have as many children as I wish? You have no right to tell me I cant or cant afford it. You do YOU think YOU are? And, the eighteen to thirty something playstation addict who asks "Why should I work. Work sucks. I'm special. Disney told me so." Pet coons come in all shapes and sizes.
Past any of the above, or perhaps because if it, every day I feel less and less comfortable with Canada's signature on a nuclear non proliferation treaty. I'm even less comfortable, or secure, under anyone's umbrella. In the words of Idi Amin Dada "I am not trusting anybody" whether they're wearing rags or tupees on their heads and however they came about their tans.
With as many enemies as there are one does perhaps make a general announcement and name them all.
The ETA is almost like Kony. It is one that we should have been able to knock out rather easily. They certainly feared it. They announced a unilateral cease fire. Then when they found they were somehow inexplicably still alive they went back to the same ole same ole. So they will adapt and grow or at least hone their skills.
When you look for say cost cutting in a company, not only do you go after the tough projects ,but you also go for the low hanging fruit. Should do so in foreign affairs too.
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