Tony Blair and the the WTF-ingest choice of all time
Published by punkass marc June 17th, 2007 in HUH!?, Imperialism for DummiesReally, truly, I have no idea how someone could live with themselves after making a decision like this:
Tony Blair agreed to commit British troops to battle in Iraq in the full knowledge that Washington had failed to make adequate preparations for the postwar reconstruction of the country.
How do you send your own people into what you genuinely believe will become a state of unmanageable chaos? More importantly, how do you help send an entire country into that state, knowing full well what it would mean for civilian violence and bloodshed?
Bush and his cronies bear the brunt of the blame for what’s happening in Iraq, but if Tony Blair knew this was coming and not only failed to openly protest but assisted in the pillaging anyway, then he belongs in a special circle of hell.
Apparently, he felt the best he could do was whine to a man he surely knew was too stuborn and ignorant to listen:
In a devastating account of the chaotic preparations for the war, which comes as Blair enters his final full week in Downing Street, key No 10 aides and friends of Blair have revealed the Prime Minister repeatedly and unsuccessfully raised his concerns with the White House.
Blair was morally obligated to speak out against this war publicly once the Bush administration failed to heed his warnings. And again, I’m utterly lost as to how he wound up in cahoots, because Bush gave him an out:
He also agreed to commit troops to the conflict even though President George Bush had personally said Britain could help ’some other way’.
He lied to his own people before the war by expressing confidence in the postwar planning. He killed his own people by agreeing to go along with the bully down the block. And worst of all, he failed to rally the international community against a war that looks to have a million-plus civilian casualties and counting — deaths he could see coming.
Today, Tony, the middle finger at the top of this blog is just for you.
You know, he still thinks he can influence George Bush, even now.
Really? Criminy. He’s like the Nice Guy(TM) of world leaders, pining for the attention of someone who really isn’t interested.
Yeah, it was in the news during G8. Tony was confident he could get Bush to agree to strong measures on climate. For someone who’s been PM for a decade, and has a reputation as a liar himself, he seems very naive about Bush.
I dunno. This may top Bolton’s appointment to the UN - or Wolfowitz’s to the World Bank, but then there’s Gonzalez to freaking Justice. C’mon, that’s a kneeslapper, no? Or for sheer scale, the hiring of all those Regent University alumni to - well - anything, frankly. A humdinger! What about those crazy femme-hatin’ comedians in charge of women’s health? Oh, and don’t get me started on the Supreme Court! I’ll laugh all day.