I went last Friday to see TB at the Iraq Inquiry.
I was meant to be in the ‘additional viewing facility’ but was called on Thursday by someone in the Cabinet Office saying a space in the inquiry room had become available.
Lucky me.
The room was no larger than a classroom, and there were four rows of fifteen seats and a little velvet cordon. The weirdest part was the atmosphere. It felt like one of awe and deference, which to me, felt plain wrong. There were a few family members behind me, and whenever they mumbled anything, a whole bunch of people would swing round with evil stares and jutting jaws. Why was Tony Blair so sacred?
My only answer is that we’re brought up in this system or society where these institutions and their leaders are elevated to divine status. Perhaps we British see it as respectful deference, others probably see it as mute subjugation. Either way, it felt like we were playing the part of the grateful audience.
So I spent the afternoon listening to Blair’s silver tongue attempt to justify the unmitigated disaster that the Iraq war was, is, and will continue to be.
Blair was trying to justify himself by claiming Iran and “AQ” (that’s Al Qaeda to humans) were the real destabilisers in Iraq and we should look to them for responsibility for the “100,000 killed” (surely you mean 1,000,000 Mr Blair?).
What the panel failed to ask Blair was where was Al Qaeda before he and Mr Bush decided to decapitate the Iraqi regime and rip out its spine (de-Ba’athification)? They were not running all over Iraq; they were Saddam’s sworn enemies.
When we talk of “Al Qaeda” we’re really talking about a loose militant Sunni movement that has strong anti-Western and anti-Imperialist rhetoric. People join and fight for them because no matter how extreme their methods might be, there is a seed of truth in their rhetoric: there are Western forces trampling over much of the Middle East – either through proxy dictators or increasingly with their own forces.
Blair’s illegal war in Iraq has strengthened these forces – anyone with a shred of experience in the Middle East will tell you that.
Similarly, how can Blair claim that democracy is better than dictatorship when he’s happy to boycott the Hamas victory in the 2006 Palestinian parliamentary elections?
People can see through his paranoid reasoning. It felt like he was desperately trying to find a way to neatly understand the fury of forces that he’s unleashed in the region. If he could only be more reflective, he would have his answer. But we know Blair too well to know that his pride and narcissism would prevent him from doing that.
Throughout his performance, he kept turning his sights on Iran, as if he could manipulate the British public into a war against the “real enemy”. Thankfully It’s not going to happen. The people have had enough of Blair’s bloody misadventures. They’re not about to be duped into another one.
At the end of a frustrating day I yelled something at him. I wish I’d thrown my shoe.
MARXISM, as a method of control, IS PSYCOLOGICALLY ADDICTIVE as is gambling. That’s exactly what it is and the ordinary masses are the pawns in the marxist game of power. The neuron assembly in the mind of the marxist alters over time as it does in the mind of the gambler. And when full blown marxism has set in it is an irreversable psycological disease. But unlike gambling, it is not recognised as one. I wonder why? The diseased one is compelled to dispense of everything of concern. Even stalin gave orders to execute his own son if he came back from America due to fear of exposure of a different political system. So yes the current regime will gamble our well being to the end if allowed to. THE DISEASED ONES MUST PERISH IF WE ARE TO SURVIVE.
Blair started the War of Terror in 2001. And in his first six years in office, he ordered British troops into battle five times. Because of this, he faces a lot of criticisms. I can still remember in our Millionaire Mind Seminar when one of the speaker was criticizing him.