Anti-Austerity Candidate Corbyn: Tony Blair Could Face War Crimes

[unhappycamper]

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MP Jeremy Corbyn says Iraq war illegal, Blair must divulge details of 2002 meetings with George W. Bush

Anti-Austerity Candidate Corbyn: Tony Blair Could Face War Crimes
Andrea Germanos
Wednesday, August 05, 2015

Labour leadership hopeful Jeremy Corbyn, a left-wing MP who's leading the polls, said that former Prime Minister Tony Blair could possibly face war crimes for his involvement in the Iraq war.

The long-time MP, whom the Guardian's Ewen MacAskill characterized as "the anti-austerity candidate, in tune with similar movements in Greece and elsewhere in Europe," made the comments Tuesday In an interview with BBC2's Newsnight.

"I think there are some decisions that Tony Blair has got to confess or tell us what actually happened in Crawford, Texas in 2002 in his private meetings with George Bush," Corbyn told interviewer Emily Maitlis.

He said that the still unreleased Chilcot Inquiry, an official investigation into Britain's role in the Iraq war, is going to come out, and "Tony Blair and the others that have made the decisions are then going to have to deal with the consequences of it."

[BillZBubb]

1. We can only hope so.

But I doubt, like bush, that BLIAR is ever held accountable.

[T_i_B]

2. The Labour leadership contest has already descended into open civil war.

And the Parliamentary Labour Party is still in awe of Tony Blair. A large partion of the Labour party, especially those in the party leadership think that because he won three general elections, all his misdeeds in office should therefore be excused.