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Tony Blair Admits Iraq War Led To Rise Of ISIS, Apologizes For "Mistakes"

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If there’s one lesson Washington simply refuses to learn when it comes to Mid-East foreign policy it’s that forcibly removing autocrats almost invariably leads to chaos. 

That’s not to say that promoting democratic principles and encouraging government “of the people, by the people, and for the people” isn’t somehow a noble pursuit at the theoretical level. It’s simply to say that real political change must be completely organic and cannot be brought about via military intervention or by covert attempts to support popular uprisings. 

Importantly, this principle applies in countries where the seeds for change have already been sown. That is, you must let the process play out on its own, even if the ball is already rolling. You cannot, for instance, say something like this: “well, there are popular uprisings against someone we believe to be a dictator and so, because the populace clearly wants change, we’ll go in and accelerate the process by fomenting discord.” 

That strategy will not work. 

The people are just as likely as not to view outside interference as stemming from ulterior motives and the regime is just as likely as not to become even more dictatorial than it already was in the face of what will inevitably be perceived as foreign meddling in the affairs of a sovereign state. 

The results of implementing this type of failed strategy are everywhere apparent in the Mid-East. There’s Libya, which is now a war-torn wasteland in the wake of Gaddafi’s death. There’s Egypt, where the confusion that reigned during the Arab Spring cornered the US into supporting the rise of Mohamed Morsi only to see his government overthrown in a counter coup that eventually installed Mubarak’s former head of military intelligence Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in the Presidency. There’s Syria, where efforts on the part of Washington, Ankara, Riyadh, and Doha to destabilize the Assad regime have led to a bloody civil war that’s left hundreds of thousands dead and millions displaced. And of course there’s Iraq, which the US and Britain invaded on false pretenses only to see the country careen into chaos following Saddam’s ouster.

Now, former British PM Tony Blair is out with an apology for his country’s role in Iraq, and although he stops short of saying that removing Saddam was a mistake, he does admit that there were no WMDs and that the presence of the UK and the US did contribute to the rise of al-Qaeda in Iraq which, if you believe the narrative, led directly to the birth of ISIS:

Now obviously, the story of how ISIS became what it is today in the wake of al-Zarqawi's death is shrouded in CIA secrecy and we'll likely never know the whole story, but there's certainly a deep connection with al-Qaeda in Iraq, the establishment of which owes much to the Western invasion.

Here’s more from Blair’s interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria (who, by the way, wants you to “stop swooning over Putin”):

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair says he's sorry for "mistakes" made in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, but he doesn't regret bringing down dictator Saddam Hussein.

 

"I can say that I apologize for the fact that the intelligence we received was wrong because, even though he had used chemical weapons extensively against his own people, against others, the program in the form that we thought it was did not exist in the way that we thought," Blair said

 

The ensuing war and dismantling of Saddam's government plunged Iraq into chaos, resulting in years of deadly sectarian violence and the rise of al Qaeda in Iraq, a precursor of ISIS. Tens of thousands of Iraqis, more than 4,000 U.S. troops and 179 British service members were killed in the lengthy conflict.

 

Blair told Zakaria that besides the flawed Iraq intelligence, he also apologizes "for some of the mistakes in planning and, certainly, our mistake in our understanding of what would happen once you removed the regime."

 

But he stopped short of a full apology for the war.

 

"I find it hard to apologize for removing Saddam. I think, even from today in 2015, it is better that he's not there than that he is there," Blair said.

 

Blair acknowledged to Zakaria that there are "elements of truth" in the view that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was the principle cause of the rise of ISIS.

 

"Of course, you can't say that those of us who removed Saddam in 2003 bear no responsibility for the situation in 2015," he said. "But it's important also to realize, one, that the Arab Spring which began in 2011 would also have had its impact on Iraq today, and two, ISIS actually came to prominence from a base in Syria and not in Iraq."

 

More broadly, Blair said, the policy debate on Western intervention remains inconclusive.

 

"We have tried intervention and putting down troops in Iraq; we've tried intervention without putting in troops in Libya; and we've tried no intervention at all but demanding regime change in Syria," he said. "It's not clear to me that, even if our policy did not work, subsequent policies have worked better."

We feel compelled to offer a few closing remarks here. First, how Tony Blair did not "understand what would happen once you removed the regime" is beyond us. History is replete with examples of the unintended consquences of destabilizing countries and if any nation knows the ins and outs of what amounts to colonialism, it's Britain.

Second, if you've "tried intervention and putting down troops" and you've "tried intervention without putting in troops" and you've "tried no intervention at all but demanding regime change," and none of it has worked, maybe you should try this: laissez-faire.

 

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Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:04 | 6708764 Truther
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Eat shit and Die Blair.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:09 | 6708778 Looney
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Tony Blair is just as stupid as Dennis Gartman, but with a proper British accent.  ;-)

Looney

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:12 | 6708785 two hoots
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Next up?

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:14 | 6708790 HenryHall
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Blair is not stupid and did not make mistakes.

Blair is, and was, calculated evil. Plain wickedness.

He was bought off for 30 pieces of silver and more.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:18 | 6708799 Backin2006
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Or blackmailed. NWO only allows verified adulterers with a "happy marriage" to get into power these days. 

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:25 | 6708819 two hoots
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We could empty our prisons if they would all just apologize or in a politicans case, just take responsibility. 

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:38 | 6708849 Buckaroo Banzai
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How nice of Tony to take a break from his busy day of sexually molesting children to apologize for his part in fucking up the world.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:52 | 6708884 mvsjcl
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Wow. If that's a picture of Tony Blair, then his pact with the Devil sure didn't include everlasting youth. LOL!

 

You can't die soon enough, Tony.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 12:10 | 6708940 RaceToTheBottom
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Politicians like Blaire and GW should be forced to live with their mistakes, literally.

They should live in Iraq all the time, not just visit.

In the same way people who act politically and unethically like Greenspam and the Bernank should have the same result.  They should forfet the same % of money the worst off of the citizens have suffered.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 12:23 | 6708978 CuttingEdge
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Tony Blair is a cunt. That Cameron repeats Blair's Iraqi "spawn of the devil regime change" mantra in Libya makes him a bigger one (at least in the stupidity division of cunthood - Blair is more of an allrounder). Which begs the question: How high up the stupidity stakes does that put Cameron for trying for a repeat in Syria?

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 12:40 | 6709040 Ofelas
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Blair "God told me to do it"

 

Merkel "God gave us to solve this (refugees)" 

 

We have our own religious fanatics

 

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 14:37 | 6709370 TBT or not TBT
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To borrow from Gordon Gekko, we broke it because it was breakable.  The region is composed of tribes and ethnicities poised to purify by outbursts of mass murder rape pillage and enslave, powered by the holy sacred sayings of muhammed centuries of fire breathing imams.   It has only ever been held in a pacific state, and only for stretches of a few decades, by brutal dictatorships and empires.    Bush and Blair, bless their hearts, didn't practice the soft racism of low expectations, and thought to fundamentally transform that millenia old status quo.    Might have worked with a few generations of occupation by the west, but America has a short patience with this type of madness, and can't afford it's own entitlement / weflare state.   So we just dropped it, and the region reverted to its natural savage state.   Because Islam.  

Mon, 10/26/2015 - 00:35 | 6710815 philipat
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War criminal. He should be in jail. And to make the sentence more just, he should be forced to share a cell with Hillary (Aka Humpty Dumpty)....a fellow "Progressive".

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 14:40 | 6709377 thestarl
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I thought he was banging Murdoch's ex but your probably right BB

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:16 | 6708800 remain calm
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Shoot him.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:20 | 6708815 Winston Churchill
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Those apologys are best heard on the scaffold just prior to the last drop.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:55 | 6708897 ThroxxOfVron
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Blair & Bush are War Criminals and they didn't act alone.

We are going to need a bigger scaffold, Winston..

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 12:06 | 6708927 logicalman
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You can say 'sorry' if you bump into someone in the supermarket aisle.

1,000,000 corpses and 4,000,000 displaced people?

Doesn't quite cut it.

Execution would be too kind for the evil fuck Bliar.

 

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 14:43 | 6709389 TBT or not TBT
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What sucks is the moron Europeans letting the Muslim refugees in.  

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 16:33 | 6709697 logicalman
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The only reason there are refugees is the likes of Bliar and Shrub.

 

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 18:04 | 6709962 TBT or not TBT
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And muhammed, whose psychotic death cult preceded bush and Blair by 13 centuries.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 19:50 | 6710286 logicalman
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Get back to me when you have reached the stage where you can form a reasoned argument, arsehole.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 22:27 | 6710749 unicorn
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hey folks, use encryption, T.B. hates that, as everybody knows.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 13:08 | 6709124 Perfecthedge
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If you want to do a proper and clean job, the guillotine blade would be moving like the pistons of a Ford Mustang speeding on a race track!

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 12:43 | 6709051 SillySalesmanQu...
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Bury him up to his neck and pour honey over his head...Mother Nature will do the rest.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:19 | 6708813 JRobby
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"Legacy" so important in the UK

 

So!  Where the hell was Biggles when you needed him last Saturday?
And where were all the sportsmen who always pulled you though?
They're all resting down in Cornwall
writing up their memoirs for a paper-back edition
of the Boy Scout Manual.

I. Anderson

http://www.collecting-tull.com/Albums/Lyrics/ThickAsABrick.html

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 12:07 | 6708936 logicalman
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Biggles means absolutely nothing to anyone who isn't of a certain demographic.

 

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 12:36 | 6709031 JRobby
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Indeed! The Patriot/Warrior beyond reproach. Classic propaganda.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 15:54 | 6709581 Gothic Optimism
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I truly expect Blair to be among the first to hang from the nearest lampost when the SHTF. 

A paraphrase from B5: "I want the next 10 generations to see that some favors come with too high a price, I want to stare into your lifeless eyes and do this...(twiddles fingers towards that person's severed head on a pike) "

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 17:45 | 6709908 Dugald
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Put the Pommie bastard in Prison........

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:22 | 6708808 curbjob
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The Fletcher Memorial Home (Waters) 

Take all your overgrown infants away somewhere 
And build them a home, a little place of their own. 
The Fletcher Memorial 
Home for Incurable Tyrants and Kings. 

And they can appear to themselves every day 
On closed circuit T.V. 
To make sure they're still real. 
It's the only connection they feel. 
"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, Reagan and Haig, 
Mr. Begin and friend, Mrs. Thatcher, and Paisly, 
"Hello Maggie!" 
Mr. Brezhnev and party. 
"Scusi dov'è il bar?"
The ghost of McCarthy, 
The memories of Nixon. 
"Who's the bald chap?" 
"Good-bye!" 
And now, adding colour, a group of anonymous latin- 
American meat packing glitterati. 

Did they expect us to treat them with any respect? 
They can polish their medals and sharpen their 
Smiles, and amuse themselves playing games for awhile. 
Boom boom, bang bang, lie down you're dead. 

Safe in the permanent gaze of a cold glass eye 
With their favorite toys 
They'll be good girls and boys 
In the Fletcher Memorial Home for colonial 
Wasters of life and limb. 

Is everyone in? 
Are you having a nice time? 
Now the final solution can be applied.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:59 | 6708904 iClaudius
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"Oi! Get your filthy hands of my desert!"

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 14:15 | 6709302 oldguy1
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Have you seen the apology video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDqatJPvOfk

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 17:18 | 6709826 crazytechnician
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ANYBODY WHO VOTED FOR THIS CUNT ALSO HAS THE BLOOD OF MILLIONS ON THEIR DIRTY HANDS.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:07 | 6708769 onewayticket2
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Why now?

Oh, wait. It is election season.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:16 | 6708801 DetectiveStern
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Not in the UK it's not. He's come out with this to get in early before the report is published.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:55 | 6708895 UncleSparky
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Calculated move by slimy lawyer.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:59 | 6708896 UncleSparky
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Mandy the cross dresser had friends at Bow Street.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 13:35 | 6709195 Troy Ounce
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Blair is coming out as he knows they're coming after him

 

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:11 | 6708770 NuYawkFrankie
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The Axis Of Evil is cracking.

Keep up the pressure.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:15 | 6708797 chunga
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Apologize for Iraq and then do the same damn thing in Syria.

These mother fuckers are cracking up!

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:41 | 6708857 Buckaroo Banzai
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Like all good prestidigitators, they want you looking at everything except their hands.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 12:01 | 6708911 chunga
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I tell you what...the MSM spin machine is going mental on this. The $hit they're saying is hilarious and credibility is utterly shot!

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 12:13 | 6708951 ThroxxOfVron
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It is called 'projecting' or 'deflection'.  It is a form of neurosis.

Such people only perceive the failings and evils resident in themselves as manifesting in others.   

Who is wrong cannot possibly be them; so they seek it in others even where it doesn't exist and then act to punish those people.

History is brim full of these monstrosities, comporting themselves with trappings of civility, speaking in legalisms, manuovering themselves into institutional frameworks so as to cloak themselves in 'legitimacy' while externalizing their subconscious deficits.  

These are the rabid criminalizers and 'deciders' and false flag/black ops. conspirators who would call any other actor doing the same a tyrant or dictator or war lord...

They are out to cleanse the world but what would accomplish that goal best is hari-kari.

People like Blair are another great example of why a populace should never be divested of their personal defensive weaponry.

He admits that tens of thousands died 'removing Saddam and liberating Iraq' ( even though it was more than he is wiliing to admit ) and yet he still maintains that this outcome is somehow acceptable.

Those lives really mean nothing to him since Blair still gets treated like royalty and eats off china and silver every night..  He has no real remorse and there is good wine in his cup.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 13:14 | 6709137 BarkingCat
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"...He has no real remorse....."

 

Psychopaths never do.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:08 | 6708772 forrestdweller
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This man is a war criminal. Het should be treated as such.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:13 | 6708787 hotrod
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Think Bush and company got laws passed where they cannot be prosecuted for war crimes.

 

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/08/03/232984/-Bush-Seeks-Retroactive-...

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:08 | 6708775 Jack Daniels Esq
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Bush41 is the original ME asshole - our reward was 9/11 - douchebag

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:10 | 6708781 wisefool
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wisefool apologizes to IRS for not paying taxes to fund hundreds of thousands of innocent lives lost, millions injured, orphaned and displaced. $4T dumped in to weapons and salaries, that have ended up in the hands of actual terroist that putin will have to clean up for the next 10 years. All based on toni blairs MI-5/6, CIA "intelligence"

/semi-sarc

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:12 | 6708784 Backin2006
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Two million people marched in London to tell you you were wrong. But then we all know you're just another puppet whose conscience only kicks into gear after you've been replaced by a greater stooge...

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:19 | 6708810 taopraxis
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The state seems to take a kind of sadistic pleasure in admitting its crimes a decade or so after the deeds are done. It's like...yeah, so what? Whaddya gonna do?

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:29 | 6708830 wisefool
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"at this point what difference does it make?" -Hillary Clinton

“I guess it’s like we don’t know what to do about terrorists, but we’ve got a good military and we can take down governments.” And he said, “I guess if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem has to look like a nail.” - Wesley Clark 7 nation plan

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 14:52 | 6709415 Shigure
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Or: "As the old saying goes, when all you’ve got is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a foreigner you can beat to death with a hammer."

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/20/britain-clings-bomb...

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:12 | 6708786 ciscokid
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War Criminal........

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:13 | 6708789 taopraxis
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"Apology accepted, Captain..." Darth Vader

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:49 | 6708791 kowalli
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i hope someone will kill whole his family, fucking war criminal

oh, sorry i made a mistake - what a bullshit lie

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:14 | 6708794 Backin2006
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Had Bliar said that he was invading Iraq to strengthen the Russians and Iranians, he would be treated as a military genius!

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 12:23 | 6708806 JustObserving
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Almost 1.5 million Iraqis killed in this illegal invasion. Blair apologizes and all is fine and dandy now

Iraqi deaths after US/UK invasion of 2003 - 1,455,590

Iraq Deaths

The number is shocking and sobering. It is at least 10 times greater than most estimates cited in the US media, yet it is based on a scientific study of violent Iraqi deaths caused by the U.S.-led invasion of March 2003.

http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq

 

The Smoking Gun Memo: Tony Blair Should Stand Trial for War Crimes, Say 96% in British Poll

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-smoking-gun-memo-tony-blair-should-stan...

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 12:30 | 6709007 CuttingEdge
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Madeline Albright and her "half a million dead Iraqi kids was a price worth paying". Nazi bitch would have gone down a storm at Nuremburg.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 12:42 | 6709055 JustObserving
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Madeleine Albright says 500,000 dead Iraqi Children was "worth it" wins Medal of Freedom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omnskeu-puE

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 12:30 | 6709008 CuttingEdge
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Madeline Albright and her "half a million dead Iraqi kids was a price worth paying". Nazi bitch would have gone down a storm at Nuremburg.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:20 | 6708811 SSRI Junkie
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there are no mistakes, there are only fucking liars...bliar, boosh, obola, cliton, clameroon...a never ending stream of them

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:26 | 6708825 NotApplicable
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Tony B. Liar.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:23 | 6708816 Ribeye
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Im not sufficiently eloquent to express in words my deep and everlasting hatred for that creature.....

On behalf of the Iraqi people...APOLOGY NOT FCKN ACCEPTED....EVER..

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:25 | 6708821 Spiritof42
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This asshole is trying to deflect from the fact that ISIS is being supported by the US, Israel and Saudi.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:29 | 6708828 Lumberjack
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What about that business deal with Al Gore? Was that a mistake too?

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:30 | 6708831 Ban KKiller
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War profiteering was not a mistake. 

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:32 | 6708838 Neochrome
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Soooo... It comes down to a "regime change" and one has to wonder what kind of regime "requirements" there are? Please elaborate the difference between Saudi Arabia and pretty much secular (at the time) Iraq, Syria, Egypt and so on.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:41 | 6708842 iClaudius
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Blair isn't apologizing for anything at all, he remains the slimiest piece of ordure still at liberty. 'I can say that I apologize for the fact that the intelligence we received was wrong ...'. The intelligence they received was not wrong, they simply ignored and lied; and he is passing the buck, 'it wasn't our fault.' They (he and GWB) were intent on invade Iraq and needed justification to sell the idea to their various legislative bodies. The reasons for the invasion, many overlapping causes, but fundamental to both the invasion of Iraq and the destruction of Libya was the desire to publicly lynch each countries leader.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 12:39 | 6709038 taopraxis
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Right on...the world is controlled by a cartel. Political puppet goes rogue? Political puppet is history...

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:36 | 6708844 Panic Mode
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GFY. He may as well blame that he doesn't understand Newton's third law. Push on one direction, you get the equal opposite force.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:46 | 6708855 Kirk2NCC1701
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I am amused by the nomenclature these gangsters use. E.g.

Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi = Father/Son of Bakr the Baghdadian.

Is that like "Son of Sam the New Yorker"? They all sound like made up names, just like in any gang.

Which makes it nice and disposable: After a shave, shower, haircut and Western clothes, any of these guys could be just another businessman flying First Class, or be seen at the country club.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 21:30 | 6710606 Iwanttoknow
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kirk,

U RRIGHT ON THE MONEY.i'VEALL ALONG MAINTIANED THAT THESE NAMES ARE SPIT OUT BY A MAINFRAME IN LANGLEY.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:41 | 6708856 nah
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Obey your thirst

.

destroy the gangs and their support structure

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:51 | 6708878 Reaper
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Responsibility without consequence is BS. Cankles takes responsibility. Blair takes responsibility. Was taking responsibility a valid exemption from consequence at the Nuremberg trials? Oh where, oh where is Bush?

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:53 | 6708887 adonisdemilo
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Blair is not alone, there are still plenty of idiots who would vote for him given the chance.

He thinks he's god.

I think, know, he's a pile of shit at the bottom of the barrel.

Despicable bastard's just trying PR to take off some of the pressure before the Chilcot report is published.

Find some rope and a lamppost, everybody except said idiots know he's as guilty as sin.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:53 | 6708888 Lea
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This subhuman made millions out of mass murder. To call that lunatic bitch a piece of shit is insulting to shit itself.

Where are the international war crimes tribunals when you need them?

 

 

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 12:17 | 6708961 NotApplicable
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Any solution containing the word "nation" is merely the next bunch of lunatics distancing themselves from the previous ones.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 12:49 | 6709078 o r c k
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Yes,  these were heinous crimes against humanity and the perpetrators are well known. Global humanity will NOT progress until these crimes are detailed in a Court of Law and the Evil is removed from society. There is a deep and sub-conscious guilt within the societies that birthed these murdering animals. Nothing will progress - socially, politically, or economically - until at least an attempt is made to satisfy Justice. Until then, ANY crime can be easily justified. And they are.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:54 | 6708891 Treason Season
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Hey Tony, since you're in the confesional and all give us the gory details on John Smith. Make it a twofer and tells us about David Kelly. too. Jesus Tony you might as well shed all those sins and tell us what you know about Jimmy Savile, his friends and associates. Until then you have not been absolved.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 20:52 | 6710499 logicalman
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He's a Catholic now.

Only says that stuff to his priest.

But he does have a dosier on the priest!

Absolution is a wonderful thing!

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:54 | 6708893 steelrules
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"Tony Blair Admits Iraq War Led To Rise Of ISIS, Apologizes For "Mistakes"

Prepare the gallows.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:54 | 6708894 pupdog1
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Blair is co-responsible for lying his country into a bogus war and causing millions of deaths.

There is no do-over for this.

Blair is a mass murderer.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 12:07 | 6708933 Freddie
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Cameron is no better.  Check his Wiki.  His non-Goy side of the family has been the bankers for the Red Shield for over 250 years financing wars for the Red Shield.   250 years of raising money to mass murder innocent people.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 11:55 | 6708898 Max Cynical
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I don't buy that the Arab Spring was organic. It's more likely it was fueled by the CIA.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 12:18 | 6708964 NotApplicable
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You mean "invented" by them.

I don't think your cynicysm is quite at max just yet ;-)

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 12:10 | 6708942 besnook
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when is he going to admit he and his brit pals like to suck the cocks of 8 year old boys.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 12:19 | 6708968 MASTER OF UNIVERSE
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Groupthink MADE ME DO IT.....Tony Blair

 

The DEVIL made me do it.....Flip Wilson

 

Monica Lewinski made me do it.....Bill Clinton

 

Neocons made me do it.....George W. Bush

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 12:23 | 6708974 besnook
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you know they are going to shut the internet down by criminalizing any noncomnpliant behavior. they will decide what is compliant behavior. they have to. the zionazis have depended upon slow public communication channels to pull off their rape of the world. they don't really act in secret. without the internet, however, everything they do can be hidden simply by the lack of communication. so they can bomb a hospital and normally get away from it except for a twitter account that posts the event to the world as it happens and a camera phone to document the bombing in video and sound. these fuckers can't get away with anything now. without the internbet the propaganda works. the internet works so well even the bottom half of the class is beginning to wake up(most of the pack in a triathalon are a coupla hours back of the leaders) and realizing that kardasian ass comes from the mideast.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 14:10 | 6709296 BobRocket
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You have no idea what the internet is do you ?

It is a protocol.

Peer to Peer.

It is not Master to Slave.

I will say my message to 10 people, those that agree will pass it on to 10 people, those that don't won't.

It is very democratic, those that do, do. Those that don't, don't.

It works whether the medium is electrons down a phone wire or A4 sheets nailed to a synagogue door.

The internet is the message not the medium.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 14:28 | 6709349 atthelake
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In that case, it would be best if we have an alternative, for when the internet goes down. Best if it's cannot be traced.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 15:42 | 6709548 BobRocket
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you don't quite grasp it do you.

The internet is a medium by which messages are passed from one to another, the mail system is another, semaphore is another.

Peer to Peer is the message protocol, it is medium independent.

With Peer to Peer you no longer rely on Masters distributing information to Slaves (who distribute to lesser slaves).

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 17:04 | 6709791 Arbeit_Macht_Frei
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What's your point?

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 12:27 | 6708992 MiscNoLimit
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Cant make an omelet without breaking some eggs. 

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 12:34 | 6709022 taopraxis
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"Where's the omelet?"  - George Orwell

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 12:41 | 6709014 earleflorida
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'Sorry' [?]

 

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 12:35 | 6709025 Everybodys All ...
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It is somewhat shocking that Barack Obama continues to receive a pass on the mess unfolding in the Middle East (including Libya, Syria, Egypt, Morocco, Iraq, and Afghanistan specifically) for the past seven years all under his new world order guidance. Never has it been truer that he who owns the press owns the narrative. Don't think for one second that CNN and Fareed Zakaria are not owned by this administration.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 12:37 | 6709036 Inthemix96
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The disgust this piece of utter filth brings up in me personally, cannot be expressed.

Robin Cook, and David Kelly both died for this creatures greater need of the lust for mammon.

Christianity cannot help this perverts calling, it brings Christianity into disrepute accepting such evil filth.

This cunt should be held accountable for the crimes he has personally overseen, and committed.

If there is a hell B.Liar, hes coming for you, you war criminal bastard.  I would happily pay for the pleasure of being the one who snuffs you out, and I would enjoy every second of it.

This 'Thing' isnt human, its the personification of 'Evil' still allowed to roam these lands.  We should be ashamed we dont drop these fuckers where they stand.

 

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 12:38 | 6709039 Able Ape
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The honorable solution to Tony Blunder Blair: 

http://betterphotography.in/features/battlefield/10930/attachment/adams_...

 

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 12:40 | 6709044 css1971
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Blair should be strung up. The idea that he didn't know what he was doing stretches credulity. He's a war criminal and should be treated as such.

 

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 13:14 | 6709138 iClaudius
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Personally I think that would be to quick. Barring Frank Herberts rather nice "You'll live out your days in a pain amplifier," the same fate that befell Napoleon would be preferable, total isolation on an island, paid for with the ill gotten proceeds of his life since leaving office. What better use of all that money than to build the prison he'd rot in.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 12:41 | 6709053 Hannibal
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Report: Baghdad Authorizes Russia to Strike ISIS in Iraq

http://russia-insider.com/en/military/report-baghdad-authorizes-russia-s...

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 12:56 | 6709090 Noplebian
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Can now feel the heat approaching perhaps, although job well done old chap and a pat on the back from your fellow psycho's!

http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/10/time-travel-is-no-l...

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 13:06 | 6709118 GreatUncle
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Here is Blairs deal he has made "billions" out of this.

 

How does somebody such as himself get to keep his billions, by pretending it was all a mistake and not his doing. Does that mean he is going to give all his billions that must also have been a mistake in the process to sort this out? No, didn't think so but you can see the cunning of the man.

Hard to enjoy your billions when most of the British population see you for what you are and that goes for the rest of the world.

Hey Blair, your buddy Straw buried the Iraq Dossier because he reckoned it might cause civil unrest!

Evil man cannot spend ill gotten gains happily because he is loathed...

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 13:41 | 6709208 Joebloinvestor
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The Worricker trilogy comes to mind.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 13:47 | 6709222 smacker
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HRH Tony Blair has always been a master spinmeister. Not a single word he ever utters can be trusted.

I note there's no honest reference to 'intelligence'. He claims it was flawed, not that he manipulated it with the "dodgy dossier" and his fallacious claim that Saddam could launch missiles at Britain in 45 minutes.

The guy's a waste of space and should be arrested and prosecuted for war crimes.

 

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 13:51 | 6709233 Solio
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That is a lot of death, maiming, destruction of infrastructure, and D.U. spread around for a oops.

 

But some made piles of money, right?

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 13:54 | 6709241 I-am-not-one-of-them
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only propaganda and lies for mass consumption

the truth is never revealed, it would be an affront to the moral high ground

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 14:50 | 6709409 windcatcher
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Exactly! Ha. Ha. Ha. Who are the greatest fools, us or them? Ha. Ha. Ha.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 13:58 | 6709259 smacker
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Blair: the anti-christ.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 14:02 | 6709274 bid the soldier...
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Blair apologizes for "Iraq" mistakes.

But is still not certain if killing Saddam was worth killing 500,000 other Iraqis.

"I'm waiting for Deloitte & Touche to get back to me on that." 

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 14:13 | 6709305 oldguy1
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Have you seen the apology video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDqatJPvOfk

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 14:16 | 6709315 Johnny Caine
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The British have been splitting and destroying Nations for 300 years. Spreading there vile racism,which alot of Noobs like some of the cunts on ZH fall for and their fucking free trade rape. The whole world was Britain's slaves until America finally rose up and slew the evildoers and let men work for a good wage and own land and not have to bow before incestuous bloodlines. Any system that uses slave labor, like the current US vis a vi Chinese compulsive labor, will be crushed by Almighty God. It doesn't matter if you believe it or not. Universal law cannot ever be thwarted. 

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 16:59 | 6709777 Arbeit_Macht_Frei
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Fuck me you're stupid.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 20:01 | 6710341 Johnny Caine
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You obviously don't read and probably don't work.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 14:32 | 6709331 atthelake
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We're, all, going to see a lot more apologies coming from the ruling class, as they see various peoples pulling out the torches, pitchforks, guillotines, rope and tar and feathers for WAR CRIMES.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 14:31 | 6709356 Herdee
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A war criminal saying he's sorry.Get real,this actor is so phoney.He's as believable as Dick Cheney.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 14:39 | 6709373 windcatcher
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Blair’s’ apology should be heard in a war crimes tribunal at the Hague at the end of the Bush/Blair trial for war crimes. The penalty for war crimes is death, so fuck you Blair and your inadequate apology.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 14:42 | 6709388 PADRAEG
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Blair turns into another Jimmy Carter, apologizing for all, blaming everyone else. Bush was pretty stupid, no doubt, but he freed Kurds, who now have their own country, & stopped the genocide of many Arabs. But Bush also discharged Saddam's soldiers, who now constitute over half of ISIS. Then Obama rushed for the exits, making it all 10x worse. 

MidEast could have been maintained at a low level terror. Surely well enough to prevent Putin from invading. Fortunately, that takes him out of Ukraine! Putin will soon need to start cremating his soldiers in sacred Islamic land, just to prevent the sleeping Russians from waking up to the fact that he has destroyed their future for decades.

 

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 18:08 | 6709971 Neochrome
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Why did we go to Iraq, again?

Do you think that perhaps $2 Trillion spent on Iraq and Afghanistan have to do something with Americans having "destroyed their future for decades"? But my guess is that your statement that "Obama rushed for the exits, making it all 10x worse" indicates that you believe that another $1 - $2 Trillion are in order...

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 15:19 | 6709490 rita
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What a hypocrite, it makes one sick to listen or to see in a front page these names of these criminals.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 15:51 | 6709570 BobRocket
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Voluntary Imprisonment

look at them, monkeys in cages, what sort of life is that.

Dance Tony Dance.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 16:01 | 6709604 Joe A
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This guy needs to spend the rest of his life behind bars. Just like his buddy Bush. The greatest joke of this all is after the mayhem he caused in Iraq they made him peace envoy for the ME.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 16:26 | 6709670 Stud Duck
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It appears he is jocking for the "witness for the prosiacutor" deal for less time! Now if Colin Powell will just roll over.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 16:39 | 6709719 Dr. Bonzo
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See. This is why it's nice to be the CIA. No mention of covert ops to destabilize governments, funding terrorists, training extremists, providing material support, weapons, skewing media. Nothing. Every day is a clean slate for Christians in Action.

 

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 16:56 | 6709764 Arbeit_Macht_Frei
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I would love to have Tony Bliar to myself for a night or any of his kids or his fucking ugly wife. I'd enjoy that experience very much indeed.

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 20:03 | 6710353 Johnny Caine
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Youre a sick British twat, I thought so. 

Sun, 10/25/2015 - 23:53 | 6710945 onmail1
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If this cabalCock$ucker Bastard is roasted & fried in hell, who would save him

Mon, 10/26/2015 - 00:31 | 6711012 ItsDanger
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Ultimately, its up to the citizens of that country to stand up and fight for their own country.  Everyone can blame the US, Brits and whoever else (who rightly shoulder a lot of blame for this mess) but no one criticizes them.  I dont see any backbone in the Iraqi people at all.

Mon, 10/26/2015 - 11:49 | 6712141 Solio
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And, so, the Devil ask for sympathy...

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