Blairs latest wheeze[ overpaid job]

That's wonderful news ! But will it happen ?

Yes agree ... There's a lot of blogs using the TB, I think just like that horrid disease ...he should be demoted !!

Jolygog too true !!!

Oops sorry jollyg ! Misspelled you

Not TB at all, it maggi thatcher and Churchill !! Thank god,

"Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast and give to the poor. But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. "
This is a quote from a Libby Purves article. It makes me think of Tony B. Perhaps the reason he made labour electable Crun is cos he is a Tory!!

Are you suggesting TB is too modest to claim any credit, trisher?

And have there been any solutions?

Sorry if I have misinterpreted your post.

I'm also wondering about the comments Cherie Blair made about suicide bombers. I'm not suggesting she is anti-semitic in any way but her pro Palestinian stance might just raise a few eyebrows in the Israeli camp as they are encouraging European Jews to emigrate.

Good heavens, he's apologised for Iraq - sort of.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/10/24/tony-blair-apologises-for-iraq-war-mistakes_n_8381988.html

Not here, of course, but to CNN.
I think it means the Chilcot report can no longer be delayed.

I heard about this on Broadcasting House this morning. Interesting that he said the Iraq war might have had something to do with the rise of IS. He then went on to say that the Arab Spring would obviously have contributed to it.

But would the Arab Spring have happened if the region had been left alone? I'm not saying that the Arab Spring was a bad thing necessarily. Just wondering really.

The Chilcot report is coming out in the next few days anyway.

I think TB was simply, and disastrously, misguided. He is a Christian. No point in knocking his religion.

My post there is with hindsight, of course.

In the words of the song-"Too much, too little, too late..." If he was misguided it was nothing to do with his religion (unless you count Bush worship as such).

' The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is that good men do nothing' Edmund Burke?, maybe maybe not.

I actually thought that this was how T.B felt about Iraq under Sadam Hussain, and that we were good men trying to do something. I still just feel that this was the thinking behind it, but I expect I'm wrong. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, and if it had worked, and had freed the people of Iraq from tyranny T.B would have be a hero, but it didn't and he's not!

But so many of us told him it wouldn't work-the British people- and he didn't listen. Too far in Bush's pocket to hear!
And has been said before having spent years supplying Saddam we were hardly doing nothing!

Mr Blair is interested in only one thing. Saving his own skin, and desperately trying to create something for which he will be remembered. Other than Iraq!

That is a point trisher, and I agree that his only interest is saving his own skin, because who knows what is going to be revealed. Such a pity, he started with so much promise and it went so badly wrong.

How many millions marched, Trisher? Including Corbyn. I wonder if the two of them have had a quiet word. Corbyn still wants to indict Blair for war crimes.

stopwar.org.uk/index.php/news/how-much-longer-can-tony-blair-spin-his-way-out-of-indictment-for-war-crimes

stopwar.org.uk/resources/petitions/stop-the-bombing-of-syria-now-lobby-your-mp-now

Perhaps more need to sign this, to make sure Cameron does not make the same mistake.

Either he deceives himself or he is a very cynical man.

He is indeed a very cynical man, and laughing all the way to the bank to boot!

He also said he believes Iraq is better now than it would have been if Saddam Hussein had remained in power. I'm sure no one contributing to this discussion would see Saddam as a power for good in Iraq but honestly, is that region in a better place now than it was before TB and GB set off on their march to remove him.

I wonder how often he went to Iraq when he was envoy for the middle east. Probably not very welcome there, either.

and I agree that his only interest is saving his own skin
and very stretched it looked tonight on the news, especially around his eyes - in fact his whole face.

Was he hookwinked and led astray by Bush or did he know more than he let on in the build-up to the Iraq war?
And will we ever really know what happened to Dr David Kelly?

Apparently, when TB was informed about Dr Kelly, the colour drained out of his face! So as you say, what really happened to Dr Kelly? Also the fact that his family have never been interviewed, spoken about or even a passing thought about them from that day to this- very strange and very spooky.