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Comment: No remorse – Tony Blair has understood nothing
The report on the investigation on British participation in the Iraq war falls a damning indictment of Ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair. He will be remembered as a liar and war monger in history, says Barbara Wesel.
Tony Blair at the press conference after the presentation of the investigation report
In public opinion he was convicted long ago: Tony Blair moved in with George W. Bush in the Iraq war, as well as world leaders and best ally of the US President is important. He lied to his Parliament and his people, and is also responsible for the death and Chaos in the Middle East, as many believed.
Nevertheless, it was worth the long Wait on the report of the inquiry, because now you can prove fully how it came to this, the largest political decision of the British post-war history.
No loophole, no excuse
In infinite detail, a former high government official leads a quiet, but perfectly targeted destruction strike against Tony Blair. In the current political Chaos in the United Kingdom, the old apparatus of government once again shows his qualities. Sir John Chilcot sets out in two and a half million words, Blair decided in 2002 to go to war then the reasons zurechtbog to justify it.
The judgment of the Rapporteur is unequivocal: in 2003, There were no good reason and no legal basis for the Invasion of Iraq. The intelligence reports about Saddam’s alleged weapons of mass destruction were doubtful. There was no legal basis for the war. Blair has to run to the UN security Council, his troops were miserably equipped, and completely failed to plan for the time after the war.
Blair’s Original Sin
The British were gone before the invasion EN masse on the street. You had a good instinct that you have been lied to and that there was no “immediate threat” to the country yet Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction. But Tony Blair ignored his population, as well as the objections from France and Germany.
Barbara Wesel is DW correspondent in Brussels
His delusions of grandeur led him to, of all things, George W. Bush tender as a follower, and to lead Britain in a war that ended in Disaster. Wisely, the report draws the arc from the 2003 Invasion to the present state of Iraq.
With his deceit over the reasons for War, but Blair broke the trust of his voters. He gagged, his Cabinet, and under the controls of government to act.
The Ex-Premier laid the Foundation for hatred and resistance, which will have an impact on politicians today. He committed the original sin, the distrust feeds, which many consider today the policy.
Still no regrets
It is a lead and aged Tony Blair, who spoke with an excited voice from sorrow and Regret. But he has always understood nothing. Because he brought back the old, tired justifications: The world is better without Saddam, the attacks of 9/11 had changed the world. And the terrorism in the Region today is not a result of the Invasion.
It is a monumental act of denial. Blair tries to defend what is not defend: a chain of hair-raising political and military mistakes, his misjudgments and his boundless Arrogance.
“With you, as always,” wrote the British Prime Minister in the summer of 2002, George W. Bush. You should chisel that on his tombstone, to the eternal deterrent against blind allegiance and political hubris. According to this investigation report is Blair’s destroyed reputation.
What he has done in his reign that is Good about the peace Treaty for Northern Ireland – will be buried under the rubble of the war in Iraq. Whether Tony Blair may now be brought before the courts, is open. But history will judge you by it: Here is a man, who was in the wrong war for the wrong reasons and with wrong Plan.
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