Blair’s ‘evidence’ for going to war
It will be interesting to see what history tells us where the events that took the UK to war against Iraq.
It seemed to me at the time, and I feel no differently now, that Tony Blair knew why we needed to join in with the Americans. But he never managed to tell the public the reasons!
At first people accepted what he said about the risk to the UK. But when they started thinking about these reasons then they realised that they simply did not make sense.
To then discover that some of those reasons that had been given to the public came from the internet and was nothing to do with the security services, was for me confirmation that there were no good reasons for going to war!
In fact, this evidence and the attempts to claim that the UK could be bombed, were in my view, a cynical attempt to manipulate the public in what was a political decision, and not one based on a risk to the UK.
In fact Blair has a history of involving the UK in wars:
1999 Blair led the Nato countries into the bombing of Serbia to prevent ethnic cleansing
2000 Blair sent our military into Sierra Leone to end a civil war
2001 Blair took part in the US-led attack on Afghanistan against al Qaeda.
We have been given no justified reasons for going to war against Iraq. We are now fighting in Afghanistan against the enemy there.
The handover of power to Brown means that Blair has left the mess that he created to others to sort out.
The cost in lives for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have been high and the war continues in both places.
Blair’s place in history is assured but he will not, in my view, be seen as a politician who has made changes for the good to the UK and to the world.
It will be interesting to see what history tells us were the events that took the UK to war against Iraq, and subsequently to action in Afghanistan.
The discovery that some of those reasons that had been given to the public came from the internet and were nothing to do with the security services, was for me confirmation that there were no good reasons for going to war!
It seems to me that this evidence and the attempts to claim that the UK could be bombed, were in my view, a cynical attempt to manipulate the public in what was a political decision, and not one based on a risk to the UK.
Tony Blair has a history of involving the UK in wars:
1999 Blair led the Nato countries into the bombing of Serbia to prevent ethnic cleansing
2000 Blair sent our military into Sierra Leone to end a civil war
2001 Blair took part in the US-led attack on Afghanistan against al Qaeda.
March 19, 2003 Blair joined in with the Americans and sent our forces to invade Iraq, ostensibly to free the people from a dictatorship.
Our military is now at war in Afghanistan. Why? Ostensibly to stop the production of cocaine.
Where did this idea that the UK could be a global policeman come from? Was it possibly personal ambition? Did Blair want to be seen as some sort of ‘saviour’ of the world?
Why Iraq? There are unpleasant dictatorships in many places in the world. There are suffering, downtrodden population groups all around the world. Yet Blair thought ‘Let’s save the poor people of Iraq’.
Blair couldn’t get the United Nations involved, even though saving population groups from malevolent dictatorships should be a primary reason for their existance!
Blair’s place in history is assured but he will not, in my view, be seen as a politician who has made changes for the good to the UK and to the world. Instead I believe that he will be seen as a warmonger whose legacy is the uprising of the extremist Islamic forces against the west.
However successful one considers the military action to be, look at the consequences for the UK.
We are now a nation who continually fear bombings and civilian atrocities. There must be similarities to the UK during the second world war; identity cards, security checks, continual fear of bombs, fear of strangers, etc.
Thanks you New Labour and Mr. Blair.
