The Iraq war and its aftermath have seen the most contentious decisions taken by any British Government since 1945. Tony Blair stands accused of leading the country into war on a false prospectus, subordinating British interests to George W Bush and showing gross negligence in failing to plan for postwar Iraq.
The only other event that comes close to earning a prime minister such ignominy is the Suez Crisis of 1956, when Anthony Eden lied to the House of Commons. In that short-lived conflict, 21 British servicemen were killed. By contrast, 179 British soldiers died in Iraq, and untold numbers of Iraqi civilians lost their lives as a result of the hostilities and the instability that followed.
Blair’s place in history will forever be coloured by the war. The Channel 4 drama, The Trial of Tony Blair, struck many as far-fetched when first aired in early 2007. Now a full public inquiry, so long in the offing, is upon us. Technically, Blair will not be on trial, but he will be forced to defend his actions in the full glare of the public arena.
Sir John Chilcot and his team are examining thousands of pages of secret government documents, while witnesses from the highest echelons unburden themselves daily to the inquiry. The hope is that, at last, the public may find out the truth from this fifth inquiry into the Iraq war.
Major conflicts in recent British history have usually yielded the truth in real time. During the 1956 Suez Crisis, details of the collusion between Britain, France and Israel, before the latter’s invasion of Egypt, began to leak within days of the plan being hatched.
Following the 1982 Falklands War, a public inquiry was established, chaired by Lord Franks, but it produced few revelations. Most significantly, it found no support for the charge that Margaret Thatcher deliberately ordered the sinking of the Argentine vessel, the Belgrano, to scupper peace talks.
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This is the video I think of whenever I see that filthy,commie POS Traitor to Western Civilisation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_-jWVCqCoA
Actually Tony Blair is NOT a war criminal unless you stop to think he was also a dictator. In fact he is not. He did have an entire majority government behind him and if you indict him you must do the same with them all.
Just something to keep in mind.
The British are killing themselves. Sad.
Philanthropist Says:
The British are killing themselves. Sad.
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It’s all because of the Left.
I don’t know whether to be pleased to see the media engaging in the kind of ‘slice & dice’ on Blair which they normally reserve for conservative politicians or to be disgusted by the continuous overuse of the accusation of war crimes… Perhaps I’ll do both!!