Politicians should be forced to play rugby.

Rugby union is a physically punishing game. Played over 80 minutes by 2 teams of 15 players each, the game is decided by points. A penalty earns 3 points and a try, in which a player carries the ball over the opposition goal line and places it firmly on the ground, earns 5 points, with another 2 points earned from conversion, which is kicking the ball over the crossbar. A player carrying the ball maybe tackled to the ground and the opposition is pushed in a scrum or a maul, so injuries are frequent. New Zealand and Australia are going to contest the final of the Rugby World Cup in London next Saturday. There was great indignation when the referee awarded a penalty to Australia in the last minute of the quarter final match against Scotland, allowing Australia to win by a single point. The Scots maintain that the infringement was a knock on, which should have resulted in a scrum, but Australians say that several Scottish players were offside and so it was a definite penalty. All this is technical and completely incomprehensible to most Indians, who only understand cricket, but what is easy to understand is that Scotland benefited earlier when they played their group match against Japan on 23 September, just 4 days after Japan had beaten South Africa on 19 September. Normally, teams are given at least 7 days between matches to recover from injuries. If Japan had been given adequate time to prepare Scotland may never have reached the quarter finals. So the loss against Australia was some sort of justice. Whereas there is justice in sports there is no such justice in politics. That slimy liar, Tony Blair has admitted at last that the attack on Iraq was wrong and led to the rise of Islamic State, or ISIS. But he cannot stop lying. He calls it a 'mistake' when, as a lawyer, he should know that when your actions result in the deaths of over 200,000 people, mostly innocent civilians, then you are a criminal, guilty of mass murder. He says that the intelligence was wrong, which again is a lie, because the UN weapons inspector, Hans Blix said that he could find no WMDs in Iraq. He committed to his unequivocal support to the illegal US attack on Iraq one year earlier during his visit to George Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas. Sadly, Blair's crimes go unpunished. Instead he was appointed a 'peace envoy' for the middle east by the US. A mass murderer as a peace envoy, the irony could not be more painful for those who suffered. But if Blair is despicable then David Cameron is even worse because he engineered the attack on Libya, killing 30,000 people, despite the catastrophe in Iraq. Blair still maintains that removing Saddam Hussein was justified because he was a baddie. Donald Trump says that the world would be better with Saddam alive. And Trump could well be the next president of the US. Rugby players are penalised for fouls but politicians get away with mass murder.