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struggle4progress

(118,295 posts)
Tue Jul 5, 2016, 05:23 PM Jul 2016

What the orphan says about Tony Blair

Adam Lusher
6 hours ago

... “We were farmers. There were cows and sheep outside. They should have seen what was down there.

“I was woken up by this big noise. All the house collapsed on us. My home was on fire. Then I heard the screaming” ...

“I was burning,” he continues. “My arms were basically roasted. After maybe 20 minutes, my neighbour came to try to pull me out of the rubble. He didn’t realise how badly I had been burned. So when he tried to pull me by my left hand, it came off” ...

“Certainly Bush should be tried as a war criminal, but Blair ... I am not so sure. Yes, he joined the war, but it was firstly Bush’s idea” ...


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/chilcot-report-iraq-war-orphan-ali-tony-blair-what-the-orphan-who-became-a-symbol-of-the-iraq-war-a7120506.html

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