...and claims the world is safer due to his actions.
Lets ignore the countless dead in Iraq, the instability and chaos introduced there, the Spanish train bombings, the British bombings and also the driving of many individuals towards extremism then.
It is extremely disheartening to see this guy get away for all the evil he has caused in the world - teflon tony really is teflon coated.
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"How many people find fault in what they're reading and the fault is in their own understanding" Al Mutanabbi
When someone makes decisions as momentous as these, I wonder whether more time is required to make a fair assessment of their impact?
In years to come, the people of Iraq may find themselves much better off, in every sense of the word, than if things had stayed the same.
Time will tell.
were so many innocent lives being lost before or was the problem just the dictatorship?
"How many people find fault in what they're reading and the fault is in their own understanding" Al Mutanabbi
Yes things may end up better, but that would be despite of Tony Blair and his cronies, not because of.
Yes things are better in Iraq now than they were a couple or so years ago, but that does not bring all the dead back to life, nor does it heal the injured.
There is still a lack of security.
And if we are talking hypothetical improvements in scenarios, left to his own devices, between 2003 and 2010, who knows, Saddam may have died of other causes - maybe even natural ones.
And then there is the risk brought to us UK citizens due to his actions. Would the UK have been at risk from extremists, would people have been motivated to blow themselves up over here if Blair had not decided to go to war?
And then there was the disenfranchisement from politics - if 2 million people marching peacefully through the streets of London does not bring change, and protests and such stuff really pointless?
Where was the democracy in action? Where were the peaceful means to hold Blair to account? no, instead we got people go all fired up to "support the troops" with blind patriotism when they were being sent in to conflict for what most likely was business interests.
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
Things were actually better under Saddam than they are now
thats a fact
im not saying he was perfect
he wasnt
he was a Western puppet
it was only a matter of time bfore they deposed him