Reply #23: Blair probably could not have stopped the invasion [View All]

[Matilda]

because that decision had been taken by Bush's minders long ago.
But the truth is, he didn't try. He tried to give the exercise
some legitimacy through UN backing, but there is no evidence to
suggest that he ever tried to persuade Bush that it was a bad
idea. In fact he devoted an enormous amount of time and energy
running around Europe trying to persuade everybody else to join
in. He was as set on invasion as Bush, in the best colonial
tradition, and he lied again and again in order to drag his party
and his country into an attack on an already weakened and
defenceless people.

Sorry, but you have an idealised vision of Blair that bears no
relationship to reality. I wouldn't call him a fascist, but I
would call him a phony, a toady and a liar.