So ‘depressed’ Blair told Gordon Brown that he was going to quit after Iraq War. Well, why didn’t he quit before the invasion especially as it was patently and bleeding obvious that NO weapons of mass destruction existed.
It lays bare, for the first time, how Blair was haunted and tormented by the deepening chaos and bloodshed in Iraq at the same time as being worn down by the constant psychological warfare being waged by Brown, his next-door neighbour in Downing Street, who was increasingly desperate to take his job.
Isn’t it bleeding obvious that war = bloodshed and countless needless deaths. And Blair was experiencing two types of warfare. Compared to the realities of warfare and occupation in Iraq this other ‘warfare’ was nothing more than personal dislike. There are countless people in the real world who are crying out of grief, and trauma. People who are depressed because they have witnessed war crimes in their occupied country. And Blair was depressed and in turmoil at the time? I saw no evidence of a man showing genuine remorse or the genuine backbone to admit any culpability at the Chilcot Inquiry.
I mean, what is this story: an attempted rehabilitation of Tony Blair? His legacy as a warmongering criminal (and let’s not forget the proxy wars either) has been seared into the history books. No matter how much rehabilitation or revisionism there is Blair is still a war criminal with blood on his hands and no amount of trying to show the flawed human side is going to change my mind. Blair didn’t have to go to war, he choose to do so based on lies.
My understanding of the practice of Christianity is to be able to confess your sins in order to gain redemption. To gain redemption Blair has to acknowledge and admit his sins in public. In Blair’s position you can’t privately grieve for what you have done while publicly justifying your actions.
Reminds me of all those liberal Zionists who oppose colonization and occupation for the damage it does to the ‘soul’ of Israel.
Like he said at Chilcot, Blair had no regrets. Now that he has a measure of how much he is detested he’s going for the sympathy vote (in the same weeks as Peter Andre, Alastair Campbell, Brown and now Simon Cowell — Andre comes out the most honest, as well as the first in this round). As if Blair’s pain could ever eclipse that of his victims. Vain and vile.
Vain and vile indeed. And he is going for the sympathy vote as well!!