Can/should Saint Tony Be Prosecuted?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39620469

[ichkeria]

So let's get this straight: one of Saddam Hussein's generals wants to prosecute Tony Blair for "aggression".

[emmie]

i would love to see him stand trial for war crimes, however that doesn't seem very likely, no matter
who is trying to prosecute him.

[mikey4444]

No and no.

[MUSCATEER]

Regrettably, nothing sticks to Teflon Tony!!

[Baldric]

Should have been done years ago imo.

[ichkeria]

There is not the slightest possibility of Tony Blair, or anyone else, being prosecuted for "war crimes" unless someone can come up with a specific crime or crimes to charge him with. "Aggression" simply is not good enough.

[ichkeria]

"I don't like Tony Blair and I have this vague idea that he did a wrong thing and lots of people died as a result - and I lost my job, to boot!" isn't going to stand up in a court of law, even if the prosecutor is a man of such undoubted legal and moral conviction as the general.

[ToraToraTora]

I tend to agree, as much as I hate the man, I accept that he acted on the info he received in good faith and also, perhaps poodle like, he may have followed GWB a bit too readily but nothing that would be prosecutable as a "war crime".

[New Judge]

And apart from that, since the former Iraqi Chief-of-Staff wants Mr Blair prosecuted in a UK court for an act which does not constitute a criminal offence in the UK, I fancy he may be on to a loser.

Far better to enlist a few of his ex-squaddies as mercenaries and send a team to kidnap him whilst he is in the middle of one of his £50k speeches (on either saving the world or building a multi-million pound property portfolio). They can then spirit him away to Baghdad, or whatever hell-hole the General conducts his affairs from) and after a short summary trial string him up from the nearest lamp-post. Far easier.

[emmie]

NJ
a tad extreme i would have thought, nice idea though.

[jno]

no. He stood for re-election and won after beginning the Iraq war. I thought the war was foolish, but it was democratically approved by voters, and that should be an end of it.

[youngmafbog]

Wasnt Hitler democratically approved by the voters?

If there is evidence he should be tried, if not then obviously he shouldnt be.

I have my doubts as to what he knew and didnt know at the time. IMHO from things that have come out since I suspect he mis led us.

[mikey4444]

jno....( 22:28 )....and enthusiastically supported by the Tory Opposition at the time.

[Old_Geezer]

I don't believe that a party being re-elected is any vote in favour of any specific action, such as deceiving the House, that they may have done previously. Otherwise one would claim that a vote for a candidate from a particular party means that you agree with everything in that party's manifesto.

[waterboatman]

Yes. For treason!

[youngmafbog]

Mickey, many supported him, including myself, at the time given the information he gave us.

We now know the was telling porkies.

So your point is?

[mikey4444]

I don't believe he was telling porkies....he was misinformed on some issues by others.

For the record, I supported the removal of Saddam Hussein, and still do. There was plenty of evidence that he had weapons of mass destruction, as the Kurds in Halabja will attest, the ones left that he didn't kill.

The situation in Iraq after the invasion has been handled terribly, and that can't be denied, but Hussein was a seriously bad and mad man, and the world is better off without him.

[Peter Pedant]

o god I thought this was a serious question
sozza

rules on private prosecutions have recently changed so NJ will be able to say what modern rules are

I THINK you need AG's permission now
( previously you just sort of brung it)
and so .... he can stop it from get-go

(previously he had to take the prosecution over - on powers he possessed and then call it a day)

back in 3T speak
yeah dat tammy blair he bad bad man him
bad he is .... yeah innit ?

[Peter Pedant]

well thanks for this q
as I saw on Netflix only a half hour later

"the killing$ of Tony Blair "

freex on show - Saudis and Palestinians talking portentously about corruption ( hem hem)
Margaret Thatchers preoccupation with the wealth of Sir Mark ( her son that is !) - played down
Wendy Deng's son by Rupert Murdock is really Blair's
and Shreez sister draped in a chadour - speaking in English I hasten to add

deffo worth an hour of your time
as you darn socks or something