In the Guardian Today- 'Tony Blair is a War Criminal'

[chlamor]

Imagine the NY Times or Washington Post or LA Times with such a commentary about our feckless 'leader'- Dick Cheney


The prime minister is a war criminal

Richard Gott, The Guardian

Like Chamberlain in the 30s, Blair is an appeaser of a dangerous global power. He should be in prison, not standing for election

Tuesday April 26, 2005 - Tony Blair has been the worst prime minister since Neville Chamberlain, a figure with whom he shares a number of significant characteristics. Chamberlain was a supremely confident and arrogant politician, an excellent speaker and a deeply religious man with a hotline to God. He had an unassailable majority in parliament, was popular in the country and presided over a cabinet stuffed with nonentities.

Unfamiliar with the outside world, he conducted his own disastrous foreign policy with the help of backroom advisers as ignorant as himself. By seeking to appease the German government, the principal threat to world peace at the time, he onlysucceeded in encouraging that country's appetite for aggression and expansionism. His egregious errors played a not insignificant role in the outbreak of the second world war, the principal tragedy of the 20th century.

Blair has followed in his footsteps, and is destined for the same place in history's hall of infamy. Like Chamberlain, he is an arrogant and God-fuelled appeaser, the unseemly ally of an unbridled country that presents a global threat similar to Germany in the 1930s.

Instead of seeking a grand alliance to confront this new danger - "a coalition of the unwilling" that would include the Europeans, the Russians and the Chinese - Blair has sided with the evil empire. He has taken up a role as its principal cheerleader, obliging Britain to become a participant in its wars of aggression. Today's Labour party has been a supine collaborator in this policy of appeasement, just like the Tory party in the 1930s. Blair's war party must be defeated at the polls.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1470239,00.html

[Frederik]

1. Right on!

[lateo]

2. Interesting.

Yesterday I read about an Austrailian General saying there is no war on terror. Today the Guardian calls Blair a war criminal.

Curiouser and curiouser!

[autorank]

3. chlamor, GREAT FIND, GREAT POST!!!

It's amazing what a thrill it is to simply hear the truth. The British people need to pay attention to this. Unlike us, they have a clean voting system so there is no excuse. If Blair re assumes power, it will be a total disgrace. Labour has negated itself for all time and should begin to disolve soon. The leadership that has stayed with Blair, e.g.,Gordon Brown, also forfeits its ability to ever be taken seriously.

Cook and Snow showed great integrity and are the only vialbe Labour leaders.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. 'Snow'? Do you mean Claire Short, perhaps?

Since she was the other cabinet minister who resigned - but she didn't actually resign until after the invasion had finished (and therefore voted with Blair on the motion to go to war).

[autorank]

9. My error, I meant Short. You're right, Cook is the real 'walking tall' MP

[Spazito]

4. I agree with the Guardian, Blair is a war criminal

Unlike the US, Great Britian signed onto the ICC and is subject to the 'rules'. Blair actively participated in the illegal invasion and occupation of another country and should be sitting in a cell at the Hague not running for re-election seeing as Great Britian is not dealing with this criminal within it's own justice system.

The best one can hope for in the current election would be a minority government. It seems Labour will win so I have my fingers crossed they don't get a majority.

[bpilgrim]

5. unbridled country that presents a global threat similar to Germany in 30s

"the unseemly ally of an unbridled country that presents a global threat similar to Germany in the 1930s."

so i guess it's not all just in our heads, and folks wonder why our passions are high on topics regarding illegal PREVENTIVE war.

these neoCONs are FASCIST.

peace

[seemslikeadream]

6. Ein Reich, ein Volk, ein Fuherer!

[Hightide1977]

8. Vote for Kennedy

All Britons should NOT vote for Blair the War Monger.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. Oh, that our press had such courage.

But, they have to suck up to the corporate advertisers.

[inanna]

11. Recommended this.

It should be read.

[Dangerman]

12. I agree.

Blair should be tried and convicted like the scum he is.

[chlamor]

13. To the Hague

Mass murder. Pretty words can doll it up a bit but let's call it what it is.

[KlatooBNikto]

14. If William Shirer was alive today, he would wholeheartedly agree

with the sentiments expressed in this editorial. What surprises me is the support that Bill Clinton is giving to Blair and his cozying up to the Bushes.

[bvar22]

15. Giving this another recommendation.

Ringing TRUTH

[lovuian]

16. Yep and can be convicted!!!

Finally the truth is surfacing and his election is in trouble!!!