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I am sick of people (on other forums) shouting War Criminal every 2 minutes.
I think that Chilcot saying that Blair and Campbell did not tamper with the dossier is absolutely huge for both of them. The Dossier may still be dodgy but it is the Expert Intelligence that was dodgy.
I genuinely think that, once his mind is made up, he is incapable of seeing things from a different point of view.
Some have called it a Messiah complex.
Some call it arrogance.
Others think it's a sign of insecurity.
I honestly think there's something not quite right with him socially and possibly cognitively. Never has been in the past, certainly exacerbated by the Report.
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He was, as Tenet said then, an "invaluable asset." Today, it is clear that "Curveball" is an imposter, a fabulist, a man who, in the US, is referred to as the "con man who caused the war." "Curveball," writes spy-thriller author Frederick Forsyth, is responsible for the "biggest fiasco in the history of secret intelligence."
It's quite clear Bush and Blair made their mind up to go to war and looked for whatever they could to back them up legally, rather than going to war due to a genuine threat. The world and his dog knew Saddam was no major threat to world peace and the WMD claims were flakey.
So Blair gets off the hook, in the eyes of the law he'll hell not be classed as a war criminal, due to questionable legal backing, the worst he will face is some kind of political misconduct charge or accusation, for not fully briefing and consulting the correct poeple before marching on with his crusade.
I actually find it more disturbing that he did believe he was doing the right thing and he some how had God's approval to do so. If he is not a war criminal lets just call him a 'deluded megalomaniac who assisted in the deaths of half a million people for no good reason'. Or for short 'founder member of ISIL'.
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I remember both Iraq wars, very well. What seems to be being overlooked in this race to burn Bush & Blair at the stake, is how Saddam continually blocked inspectors, moved things around and generally stoked the fires of belief that he did in fact have WMD. He did plenty to bolster the view that he was in possession of weaponry that could take all and sundry out.
What is clear with hindisght is that a lot of Saddam's behaviour was macho posturing, and also lunatic posturing. He was playing a game of blink with world leading militaries, and we took the bait.
The sad thing is that thousand of lives got caught in it.
I think if parliament were in the same circumstances again, they would vote to war.
What is black and white to me is that they believed that they were right to invade but critically also clear is that there was no plan whatsoever, anywhere, for what to do after Saddam was removed and its left the whole region in chaos.
Lets not forget, Saddam was keeping a lot of extremist and radical factions in check, in amongst his brutality and tyranny. Historically the west had been quite happy to encourage him in his grip on the region. Nothing was planned to deal with the aftermath.
Kids with guns, thats what the Allies were. Running round causing havoc and then looking round at the mess, thinking, "shite, what now then??"
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I'm in the camp that thinks not much will happen to Blair in a legal sense. He really does live up to his 'Teflon' moniker
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But seriously, you don't go from old soviet scud missiles and not being able to hit targets a few hundred miles away to having the sophistication for nuclear weaponry. Saddam stoked nothing but Blair and Bushes ego's. His mistake was not realising they would be stupid enough to mount an invasion.
They are, North Korea. Kim jong-un is a certified lunatic. Macho posturing is his hobby. The only difference is it wouldn't be an easy fight, so the west will leave well alone. Iraq, they knew the march to Bagdad would be largely routine, being that Saddam was no match for their military might.
The West knew North Korea were developing nuclear weapons but didn't do anything about it because they were too interested in a fight they knew they could win against Saddam, because Bush Snr didn't finish the job and Jr had a score to settle.
He won't, though.
Too many greased palms and too many 'friends'.
He's a disgrace to his party and to this country.