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malaise

(267,813 posts)
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 10:05 PM Jun 2014

Impeach Tony Blair: As Iraq burns, Parliament should put this deluded liar on trial

It's the Daily Mail but this is very good
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2659649/Impeach-Tony-Blair-As-Iraq-burns-Parliament-deluded-liar-trial-writes-SIMON-HEFFER.html
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Seven years after leaving office, and 11 years after British troops flooded across the southern border, Tony Blair continues to cause outrage and bewilderment over Iraq.

Only a handful of American neo-conservatives, most of them discredited and seeking to protect their reputations, too, would agree with him. To most people, he appears a self-serving fantasist with blood on his hands.

Some would question Mr Blair's sanity. Indeed, a former close friend, the novelist Robert Harris, did so only recently, suggesting he had a ‘messiah complex'.

It takes a rare politician to admit any error, let alone one based on a lie — the sexed-up ‘dodgy dossier' Mr Blair put before Parliament in March 2003 to support his contention that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction — which cost the lives of 173 British servicemen and six servicewomen.

But the lengths to which he is going even now to defend his blind support for George W. Bush are embarrassing as well as outrageous.

There have been, and still are, frequent calls for Mr Blair to be arrested for alleged war crimes, taken to the International Court at the Hague and put on trial. I have met many senior lawyers who would love that to happen, but none who actually thinks it will, given the constitutional framework within which Mr Blair operated.



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Impeach Tony Blair: As Iraq burns, Parliament should put this deluded liar on trial (Original Post) malaise Jun 2014 OP
We can't impeach him Prophet 451 Jun 2014 #1
How do you impeach someone who's out of office? Is there even a British law covering impeachment? scarletwoman Jun 2014 #2

Prophet 451

(9,796 posts)
1. We can't impeach him
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 10:44 PM
Jun 2014

The British Constitution doesn't allow that. But I'd be very happy if the lying fucker spent the rest of his days shuttling between The Hague and a jail cell.

scarletwoman

(31,893 posts)
2. How do you impeach someone who's out of office? Is there even a British law covering impeachment?
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 11:09 PM
Jun 2014

I'd be content if no one paid any attention to him and the media refused to report anything he has to say - since obviously, no Western leader is ever going to be brought before the Hague.

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