Sunday, January 31, 2010

As expected Tony Blair most emphatically had no regrets in invading Iraq and being responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands. Neither did Milosevic or Saddam or Mengele or Eichman and a host of others but that did not make them any less criminals. Neither does it alter the fact that Tony Blair is most definitely a war criminal. The British could make out a case against him as a traitor for having handed the sovereignty of the country to the US by being the unapologetic poodle of George W. Bush. When asked about whether he had prepared for the post war phase he said, If we had known then what we know now we would have done things differently. So a further charge can be added to the list, that of being stupidly cavalier. As Prime Minister of a country with a permanent Security Council seat he should have known that Iraq would fall apart if Saddam Hussein was removed. This is a country with 60% Shias and 20% Kurds being ruled by the 20% Sunni population. He did not know that Iran will play hardball when Ahmad Chalabi was probably their agent. He did not know that the Kurds would want independence based on the oil income from the wells around Arbil and that Turkey would never allow that. It is only because Turkey still has faint hopes of joining the European Union that it has not attacked northern Iraq. Mr. Blair was quite wrong when he mentioned Hans Blix for support. Mr Blix consistently and firmly said that Iraq had no WMDs. The British are masters of whitewash and the report of this enquiry will no doubt exonerate Tony Blair. This would be the time for the families of dead Iraqis to go to the International Criminal Court to ask for an arrest warrant.

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