Blair plays the ’9/11, get out of jail free card’ that has worked so well for criminals formerly in government on this side of the Atlantic.
An unrepentant Tony Blair defended his decision to join the United States in attacking Iraq, arguing Friday before a panel investigating the war that the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks made the threat of weapons of mass destruction impossible to ignore.
Tony Blair: The reason I took on secular Saddam was to fight radical Islam.
Tony Blair:
He also put the decision to go to war in Iraq in the context of a wider battle over Islam. He said: “I happen to think that there is a major struggle going on all over the world, really, which is about Islam and what is happening within Islam.” He said that this struggle had a “long way to go”.
Response:
Is he having a laugh? The decision to depose Saddam Hussein, the Baathist ruler of secular Iraq, was part of a wider global war against radical Islam? It would be funny if it wasn’t so tragic. The harsh truth is, as virtually every intelligence agency and terrorism expert on earth has confirmed, that the Iraq war exacerbated the threat from Islamist extremism; it acted as a recruiting sergeant for every Muslim terrorist group in existence. Meanwhile, every single inquiry into the Iraq war, on both sides of the Atlantic, has concluded that Saddam had no links to Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda or the attacks of 11 September, 2001.
I’ll add the appropriate tag…
Didn’t stop the “sheikhs” from feting him:
Craig Murray says everything that needs to be said about Trevor Phillips.
Martin Kettle does his best to win Britain’s Biggest Blairite Tosser Award, but he has some way to go before he can match John Rentoul.
Stupid Blairite moron, John Rentoul, describes his idol Tony Blair as a “peace-time prime minister”.
That’s ‘peace-time’ prime minister, Tony Blair, who intervened in and/or created at least four conflicts around the world; expressed continual support for military attacks in the ongoing saga in the Middle East; and under whose leadership Britain continued, even expanded, its role in the global arms trade.
Yet more evidence emerges that the Blair regime lied about the Iraq invasion.
abdullah, 
johnpi, and 
thabet are discussing. 
Warmongering bastard and lying liar.
He is a war criminal and needs to be tried in court.