Blair's fury: Are mandarins seeking revenge?:worries his reputation will be shredded

[cal04]

The former PM has confessed to worries that his reputation will be shredded as evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry begins to mount
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/blairs-fury-are-mandarins-seeking-revenge-1830508.html

Tony Blair is furious that his reputation could be "shredded" by senior civil servants taking revenge on him during the inquiry into the Iraq conflict, it emerged last night.

The former prime minister has been appalled by high-profile evidence given by the mandarins who have appeared before the Chilcot Inquiry since the first round of public hearings began last Tuesday, close friends have revealed.

Mr Blair's image has taken a battering over the past six days, as a series of current and former public servants have given evidence that conflicts with the Government's account of the intelligence assessment of Iraq's weapons capability before the invasion in March 2003.

Among the devastating details presented to the inquiry was the revelation that British spies reported 10 days before the invasion that Iraq had "disassembled" what chemical weapons it had – but Mr Blair went ahead and sent troops into battle.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

1. WHAT reputation?

:shrug:

[John N Morgan]

2. Ya'know there was always GWB's co-host spots on the motivational seminar circuit

The details about who sits on who's lap and who's lips move have to be worked out.

[bemildred]

5. The one that he imagines he still has.

When you live in a world made up of bullshit, you lose the ability to tell what is real and what is not.

[hlthe2b]

3. mandarins-- well, that's a new term.....

I thought the story was going to involve China--LOL

[CJCRANE]

9. What if the mandarins team up with the czars...

:scared:

[bemildred]

11. Or mandarins, czars, pundits, and experts. nt

[marmar]

4. Truth hurts, doesn't it Tony the Lapdog?

nt

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. Blair, Reagan, Thatcher, and Bush - all names that should go down as insults and pejoratives

[LeftishBrit]

12. Strongly agree!!!

[CJCRANE]

7. Blair is over-rated

in his own mind. Time to come down to earth.

[LeftishBrit]

8. Too late, Tony, your reputation was shredded long ago!

[Jack Rabbit]

10. Tony Blair's reputation is . . .

. . . as Bush's lap dog.



He told lies along side of Bush and Cheney and he should be tried for war crimes along side of Bush and Cheney.

[Diclotican]

13. cal04

Cal04

Until he got into the band wagon with mr Bush, he had a good reputation and was well respected world over.. After he was going party with your most insane president in history he lost both his reputation, and the respect world over...

It is fully right that Blair's image have taken a battering, because this was NOT new news for most of us, who looked little more to the fact and soon discovered it was based on lies, and lies and more lies....

It is good that finally, the evidence we know was there, or hoped was there is piling up as former and current public servants is given evidence to why the government and the intelligence assessment of what was the capability to Iras WMD...

But this is NOT an criminal inquiry, it is just an inquiry into why this happened. It will be up to others to decide if criminal inquiry into what happened before UK was sending soldiers into a lie would happened. That was something the leader of Iraq Inquiry stated the first day. That they doesn't have anyone criminal power to arrest or that it was a corth. But if the evidences of what happened before the US and UK was going into the war with Iraq, even before the UN weapons inspectors had being their work properly is blowing up in all faces.. Then he might also discover that no one is over the law. Not even Tony Blair..

Diclotican

[burning rain]

14. Blair doesn't need to worry.

His reputation as Bush's poodle is unassailable.

[juno jones]

15. Blair needs to roll over

and bite the ankles of his former masters.

C'mon Tony. Yer country's got the best tabloid press evah...

[Cobalt-60]

16. Reputation? Which one?

Bush's Poodle or Liar seeking War?
I already wouldn't p*ss on Blair if he caught fire.
The best thing he could do for everyone is drink poison.
(If it were B*sh I'd spray gasoline.)

[BlueMTexpat]

17. Sorry, Tony. It was your own actions that

shredded your "reputation."

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And what a deafening silence there is in the US media about the Chilcot Inquiry! Surprise, surprise.

[Jester Messiah]

18. I guess he'll just have to take his riches off to his summer home in the tropics and sulk.

Poor bastard. :sarcasm:

[struggle4progress]

19. Betcha them mandarin bastids gonna say next Cleopatra weren't pure and chaste

:evilfrown:

[Capt_Nemo]

20. He should be worried of

spending the rest of his sorry life rotting in a jail cell,
unfortunately in western societies bloodsuckers like him
are not accountable anymore.

Instead he wories about his reputation, poor thing:
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