[Updated below] Discredited former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, is still searching for any possible excuse for his unlawful action in taking Britain to war against Iraq in 2003 – with its 10th anniversary today.
The latest one involves a visionary sense that can only be coming straight from his claimed hotline to the Almighty.
The grinning one just knows that if there had been no invasion, the Iraqis would have rebelled against Saddam Hussein and the carnage would have been frightful.
In support of this self-serving hypothesis – because that is all it is – he cited a vague historical pattern in claiming that Iraqis ‘rose up in large numbers and were killed in very large numbers’.
It seems to be OK when the UK and its allies kill Iraqis in large numbers, though. It is conservatively estimated that 100,000 were directly and indirectly killed in the Blair-Bush conflict. It may actually have been up to 650,000. But hey. Tony has no regrets.
[Updated material below - 19th March]
Anniversary bombs kill 57+ in Baghdad
And the dying goes on.
Not 10 but 12 or more bombs have been detonated in Baghdad today on this 10th anniversary of ‘the Mother of all Wars’.
Largely delivered by car bombs and with at least one suicide bomber, the explosions have killed at least 57 people and wounded over 200.
Anniversary opinion poll
Pollster, Comres, has published the results of an online survey of over 2,000 adults, – 10 years after the event – showing that:
- 69% think that UK participation in the 2003 Iraq war has increased the likelihood of terrorist activitiy on British territory;
- 59% insist that it does matter that no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq;
- only 20% say it was right for Britain to engage in this conflict;
- 58% say that it was wrong for us to do so;
- 57% believe that Tony Blair consciously lied in claiming that Iraq was building up a reserve of weapons of mass destruction.
Blair is piously pronouncing that inaction too has its consequences – however, inaction on this matter from him would have been nothing like as personally profitable as his actions have been.
This is the man who sold his soul and did not understand or, then, care that actions absolutely have consequences.