Is this about the war in Iraq or just Tony Blair and George W Bush’s obsession with Saddam Hussein? Tony Blair is appearing before the Iraq Inquiry to justify why he sent British servicemen and women to fight a war that they did not need to be involved in. That they are doing a brilliant job under the circumstances is without doubt – but how much further forward are we given that the Americans claim British troops will be required in Afghanistan for another fifteen years.
Saddam Hussein is dead and gone and what’s more he is not dead and gone because he flew a plane into the World Trade Centre Towers…he had nothing to do with that. Saddam was sitting there as the despot leader of an oil-rich nation, a thorn-in-the-side of the son of George Bush Snr who was determined to take up where his daddy lost out back in 1991. So Blair and Bush, hand in hand, took the world off to war on the trail of those Weapons of Mass Destruction…that have failed to materialise. Where are they – where WERE they???
In the meantime Britain has become the hotspot, after Pakistan, for breeding Islamic extremists who pose a far greater immediate risk to our society than old Saddam ever did – while our troops are over there, the real enemy is living next door to you right here. Hijackers and terrorists still pose a threat to innocent and unsuspecting travellers…but Saddam is dead, thousands of innocent civilians and servicemen and women are dead, then Tony Blair got the hell out of it. Now he has to answer for it.
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Perhaps it went more like this:
http://lavatoryreader.typepad.com/the-lavatory-reader/2010/01/the-iraq-inquiry-the-peculiar-memories-of-tony-blair.html
That’s very good!