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Yes, of course, although even America's Afghanistan attack
was dubious, the UN having been browbeaten by the American administration after
the attack which had horrified so many.
But Iraq was not merely a mistaken turn. It was quite simply
what Israel wanted, and it lobbied for it as only Israel can. Everyone from its
prime minister to that self-proclaimed man of peace, Elie Wiesel, directly
lobbied for an invasion of Iraq. There was a chorus.
And Bush and his key people were highly attentive to what
Israel wanted.
The invasion was never about WMD or oil, as was often said
at the time.
It was about Israel's hegemony in the Middle East, which is
often given the misnomer, security.
Blair was a virtual acolyte of Israel and its leaders, so he
did not take any pushing. An important strategy of his "New Labour
Party" was an approach to the British Jewish community for more support,
especially financial, the Conservatives traditionally receiving much of it because
governments in Israel are unfriendly to progressive or genuinely liberal
governments in the West.
Supporting the smashing of Iraq was Blair's beau geste to
those of the Jewish community in Britain who are intense supporters of Israel.
Britain's Jewish community is rather smaller than in some countries, as in the
US, but it includes some immensely powerful world financial and business
figures.
Well, Blair succeeded in his own terms handsomely, even
earning himself a one-million dollar Israel "Peace Prize" for his
efforts.
I doubt he was capable of acting otherwise than he did under
the circumstances. He is a man destroyed by his own ambition and complete lack
of ethics.
