CHILCOT AND MR BLAIR

Tomorrow Tony Blair will appear before the Chilcot enquiry. In his particular case the hearing is being characterised as a trial. However Mr Blair has already been found guilty, by an unholy alliance of the majority of the print media, the liberal left, the stop the war coalition crowd and the far right. It is now axiomatic that

a) Tony Blair Lied to get Britain into the war and

b) The real cause of the war was oil.

To even question these statements one is greeted by a sneering incredulity, particularly if you suggest that Mr Blair had good motives for his actions. No amount of evidence to the contrary will ever convince this crowd and so we get the ugly baying that Blair is a ‘war criminal’ who should face trial. This in a week when a very real war criminal Ali Hassan al-Majid, known to the world as "Chemical Ali" after he ordered the gassing of thousands of Kurds in the town of Halabja, has been hanged in Iraq. An event made possible by the actions of Mr Tony Blair.

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