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Poor Tony Blair – Victim of an Illegal War in Iraq

Lord Hutton - Patron Saint of Apologists
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The invasion of Iraq was illegal. Every applicable law unequivocally confirms this conclusion. There are no grey areas, no extenuating circumstances. Not according to the law.
When Tony Blair and George Bush decided to abandon the United Nations and launch their aggressive war against Iraq in March, 2003 they committed themselves to the most serious of all breaches of International law, “the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole”, as defined by the prosecutors at Nuremberg following the defeat of the Nazis.
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Apologising for Blair

Blair and Bush at the Whitehouse, 2003
Despite the long since uncovered lies, the deceit and corruption, the intensifying violence of the state, the broken lives, shattered families, splintered society, breakdown of law and order, looting and collapse of the economy and disenfranchisement of the people under a nightmare parody of democracy, there remains a small body of loyalists who cover their eyes, block off their ears, hold their noses and speak sweetly and softly of the warmonger, the serial bomber, the self-obsessed man monster who is Tony Blair.
Blair – The Making of a Monster
Tony Blair’s progression from a privileged, Tory leaning, guitar wielding attention seeker into Britain’s most corrupt politician and notorious war criminal is set out in a 2007 article by BBC political reporter Brian Wheeler.
Being a BBC piece, it smoothly glosses over or skips entirely many of Blair’s worst crimes but it is useful in collating much information about Blair’s early years.
Blair, "a pretty straight sort of a guy"?

Bernie Ecclestone
A liar would say that, wouldn’t he? A dishonest man is hardly going to admit his dishonesty, it’s simply not in his nature.
When thinking back to Bernie Ecclestone’s purchase of Tony Blair, New Labour’s first major scandal though certainly not the last, the sum of £1,000,000 probably jumps into your head. That was the amount Ecclestone donated to Blair’s party in secret in January, 1997 before Blair became the PM.
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