POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN THE INDEPENDENT
He "regrets" the loss of life? How very civil of him.
But just what does that even mean? Is it anything along the lines of saying sorry to the mangled remains of the pedestrian you just dragged to his death under your car while you were driving drunk?
Blair truly is one of the most repulsive leaders of a major country of the last several decades.
Starting a war which ultimately killed a million people and set a society back for at least a generation ranks pretty high in my book of war crimes.
If I wanted to be flip, I could say Tony's greatest crime was heeding George Bush, but I think that falls in the category of mental illness, not crime.
I think too we should never forget how opposed the British people were to Bush's evil idea. London had the world's greatest peace parade.
But Tony managed to manipulate and crawl and lie his way to dragging Britain into that pointless mass killing.
He has been richly rewarded for his dirty work - appointments, sinecures of every description - all the good things in the gift of those he doggedly served, the United States.
And just look at his pictures and hear his empty glib words now.
But isn't that what you would expect from a supreme narcissist, indeed one bordering on a psychopath?
False charm, constant lies, endless manipulation, and attracted to killing - that is Blair.
It is simply stunning that in the twenty-first century, in an advanced democratic country, a leader can get away with what Blair has.
Indeed, he has prospered beyond anything he likely ever dreamed of, working the miracle of transmuting dead flesh into gold.
Sorry, Tony, all the prayers and masses you can muster and all the perfumes of Arabia won’t touch the stench you carry.
