Blair Can't Say Sorry For Iraq

[Baldric]

Because he'd do it again

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3678024/Blair-declared-couldn-t-say-sorry-Iraq-d-again.html

What a truely evil specimen he is.

[jourdain2]

As you say, a truly evil man. I have little to add except that he professes to religious belief (which he also managed to ensure he stayed as P.M.) and I wonder if he dares to admit his faults even to his God? I suspect he doesn't, it is not easy to see all your own faults.

[Old_Geezer]

Well everyone thinks they are right, otherwise they would have done differently. So I don't think one confesses to one's deity faults that one doesn't believe one has.

In fairness I suspect he believes he did the right thing and nipped a potential disaster in the bud; but the report finds it was premature, badly resourced, and ill prepared for both beforehand and for after the event. Not to mention brought about by suspect information and downright lies/deception.

[stuey]

Ah! I see that this John Chilcot is a Lord; therefore, his view, his opinion, his interpretation of history is bound to be sacrosanct and engraved in stone.

[jno]

evil? Good grief. You're putting him on a par with Saddam, maybe? The war was politically stupid and strategically calamitous - but taking out a Muslim dictator was backed by millions of Britons. All this outrage is because we lost.

[Old_Geezer]

?!?
I don't see Sadam still in control.

[jno]

OG, if you call Blair evil, what words do you reserve for the Saddams of the world? And what have you got left over for the Pol Pots?

[Peter Pedant]

No stoo - Chilcot, is a senior judge so they get called Lord, like you get called Stoo. They used to get a seat in the House of Lords - but I am not sure now - there are 1,000 other Lords in the em House of Lords all jostling to be heard

The highest court in the land was the House of Lords ( law Lords only ) and they didnt judge - they gave - 'speeches'
Now they are the Supreme Court to comply with erm european legislation - now there is a thing.....

Common for someone to say "I would do it again given evrything"
and that is to show how reasonable it all was at the time.

with something like the Iraq disaster, anyone hearing it just thinks
'Oh my God' .....

[Baldric]

Given that jno's posts more often than not have an Anti B.ritish slant I would guess the he/she was and still is a fan of TBs.

[ummmm]

Jno isn't anti British. She just gives a counter argument!!

[Peter Pedant]

and Pol Pot's lot have gone notoriously unpunished....

[Bazile]

I thought we were not supposed to call each other anti-british

[Baldric]

If you're not Anti Bristish why bother arguing the Anti British point of view?

[Sqad]

Big man, big job, big salary ( not enough in my opinion) big decisions.
One evaluates the evidence, takes advice and then makes a decision.
Some decisions are good.......some not so good and some bad....that is life for top decision makers.
Most ABers have to decide whether to go to Majorca or Croatia for their holidays...whether they are a B or C cup when buying bras........no big deal if they have made wrong decisions.

Blair made decisions which may in retrospect proved to have been questionable.....but he made them and given the same circumstances without the benefit of hindsight would have made them again...so......I ask...why should he apologise?

[Baldric]

For 'Big Man, Big Job' read Megalomaniac.

[stuey]

Baldric, most, if not all, politicians are megalomaniacs.

[Baldric]

Well thanks Stuey, I never knew that!

[jno]

saying the elected British leader Blair was better than the Iraqi tyrant Saddam is anti-British??

Wow.

[stuey]

Not a lot of people do.

[stuey]

Oops, my last response was to Baldric.

[Baldric]

///Invasion of iraq was not a 'last resort' and Blair chose Military Action before 'peaceful options had been exhausted'
Saddam Hussein 'posed no imminent threat' at the time of the invasion.