British television show puts Blair on trial for war crimes

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British television show puts Blair on trial for war crimes

http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3617916

January 09, 2007 Edition 2

London - The British TV channel behind Death of a President - a drama in which US President Bush was assassinated - plans to broadcast a dramatisation of Prime Minister Tony Blair's retirement from office and the build-up to his trial on war crimes charges.

The Trial of Tony Blair, which airs on Monday, takes place in 2010: Hillary Clinton is the new US president, and Gordon Brown, Blair's deputy, has taken over as prime minister.

But Blair is haunted by the continuing carnage in Iraq, and tormented by an obsession with his legacy so overpowering, it blinds him to the looming threat of an indictment by the International Criminal Court.

Blair is played by respected British actor Robert Lindsay.

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Richard D

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Wed Jan-10-07 11:25 AM
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1. No * ?

He should be in the dock right next to tony . . . at Nuremberg.

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Wed Jan-10-07 11:38 AM
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2. * was assassinated, remember?

Continuity, Richard, continuity. :hi:

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Richard D

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Wed Jan-10-07 11:44 AM
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3. Well . . .

. . . they could use a cardboard cutout. Wouldn't be much different than the real thing, no?

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muriel_volestrangler

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Wed Jan-10-07 03:08 PM
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4. Because he's otherwise engaged

and the US won't hand him over:

Worse yet for the newly retired Blair, the publishers think his memoirs are self-serving tosh, prompting him to scupper the advance that would have paid Connaught Square's huge mortgage. But that isn't the worst of it: there is growing impetus for the establishment of an Iraq war crimes tribunal at The Hague. But, with ex-president Bush back in rehab and the US not accepting the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (aka the World Court), only Blair is likely to be indicted for the allegedly illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003. The stage is set for Blair to follow Slobodan Milosevic into the dock at The Hague.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/media/story/0,,1985932,00.html

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