You have stated on your website and confirmed in an interview with the BBC that “We (presumably that’s you as prime minister and President Bush) didn’t cause the Iraq crisis.” The main cause of what is happening in Iraq today is, you said, the “predictable and malign effect” of the Western failure to intervene in Syria. And you are calling for unspecified intervention in Iraq. I presume you mean drone and other air attacks – war without American and British boots on the ground.
I think the leaders of all the major powers are to be condemned for allowing the slaughter and destruction in Syria to proceed, so I agree that intervention to stop it was needed. The question is – what form should intervention have taken?
In my view what was required at a very early point was a private conversation between President Obama and President Putin. In it Obama would have said to Putin something like, “What’s your price for requiring President Assad to stand down and make way for internationally supervised elections?” That’s the way an American president who was a real statesman would have played it. My speculation is that Putin would have responded positively on terms acceptable to Obama.
Now to your assertion that you and President Bush should not be blamed in whole or in part for what is happening in Iraq today.
In passing I have to say that I agree with Michael Stephens, an expert on Iraq and Syria for the Royal United Services Institute. He said that your war on Iraq played a big part in the fragmentation of that country. He added: “I think Mr. Blair is washing his hands of responsibility.”
I also agree with Sir Christopher Meyer, Britain’s ambassador to the U.S. from 1997 to 2003. In an article for the Mail On Sunday he said the handling of the campaign against Saddam Hussein was “perhaps the most significant reason” for the sectarian violence now gripping Iraq. He added: “We are reaping what we sowed in 2003. This is not hindsight. We knew in the run-up to war that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein would seriously destabilize Iraq after 24 years of his iron rule.”
The bottom-line truth is that as the leader of Iraq’s Sunni minority, Saddam Hussein kept his foot on the throats of its Shia majority. In doing so he was serving what the West considered to be its best interests – preventing Iran from spreading its influence. The removal of Saddam Hussein brought about, predictably, the opposite.
I suggest, TB, that you didn’t give a damn about the consequences of removing Saddam Hussein because your agenda was determined by Zionism and its non-Jewish neo-con allies and associates in America. That agenda, public not secret, was removing Saddam Hussein, “rolling back” Syria and regime change in Iran. It was a grand strategy designed to guarantee that Israel would remain free to go on imposing its will on the region.
What you and Bush actually did was to set in motion what has become virtually a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia; a war that could have catastrophic consequences for the world, not just the region.
And one more thing, TB. I think those who described you as a “Bush puppet” and an “American stooge” were wrong. You are a neo-con. And it’s my guess that you colluded with America’s neo-cons to push President Bush to war. Could that be why you and your American neo-con associates don’t want the Chilcot Inquiry to publish the transcripts of your conversations with Bush?
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My 2005 article predicting today's outcome. The "elephant in the room" is Eretz Israel.
How many gentiles have to die to make the world safe for that fetid state of Eretz Israel? And why are the gentiles participating in the slaughter of other gentiles on behalf of Jews? The US has put US resources at the disposal of Israel. Why?
Bush is a traitor and a war criminal. Americans do not want the world that he, Blair and those homely neo-cons have dreamed up. Ugly is ugly: Everything these people touch turns to shit.
At last someone had the courage and integrity to spell it out that when at the helm, Blair did not serve British interests and that his real masters were not the British people who ultimately paid the price in blood and money.
As for the Syria scenario, I don't think foreign powers, be they western or eastern, had any right to interfere in that country’s internal affairs. Besides, Assad is the most honourable head of state in the Arab world.
June 15,2014
Alan:
It is wonderful to have you back. You were very much missed during your absence.
I hope that all is well and may you live to be at least 120 years in good health and excellent mind.
With best regards and love.
Arthur Billy
You'll forgive an old man of taking the privilege of calling you, Alan, as I (in my dotage) feel I've known you and admired you over a long period of time.
It's marvelous to observe you still persevering for all that's right for the world, though I fear that we appear to be perceived as 'dogs
barking up the wrong tree. Who was it who said 'talking truth to power is to no avail since they already know the truth and only try to obfuscate the situation while those who need to be made aware of the truth are unable to digest it.'
Thanks for fighting this uphill battle for all of us who are trying to follow you.
nels wight, Belfast 04915
It's gratifying to see a man of integrity calling a spade a spade. Tony Blair and his cohorts must be taken to the ICC at the Hague for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
It's all part of the Zionist plan for the Middle East as was clearly stipulated in the Oded Yinon Plan: http://members.tripod.com/alabasters_archive/zionist_plan.html
USA four star general, Wesley Clark let the cat out of the bag when he stated on video in September 2006 that the neo-cons of America have formulated a plan to attack seven countries in five years in the Middle East. This evil plan is still unfolding and it will take brave man to say stop. See video below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjd3bGQjN9U
It think even though both Tony Blair and George Bush have been declared "War Criminals" by a Kuala Lumpur court - it was the powerful Jewish Lobby in both the UK and US which initiated the military occupation and the destruction of once the richest Arab nation of Iraq.
The 9-11 Commission member, Philip Zelikow, told an audience at the University of Virginia on September 10, 2002:
“Why would Iraq attack America or use nuclear weapons against us? I’ll tell you what I think the real threat (is) and actually has been since 1990—it’s the threat against Israel. And this is the threat that dare not speak its name, because the Europeans don’t care deeply about that threat, I will tell you frankly. And the American government doesn’t want to lean too hard on it rhetorically, because it is not a popular sell.”
http://rehmat1.com/2010/01/30/british-iraq-inquiry-an-old-fashioned-anti-semitism/
Mr.A. Hart, Your Commentaries are Always So On Target with What is Going on in the World TODAY....But When are you going to Change your "Opening Presentation " and stop including G. Meir ? So many Stances she held was Wrong. Not for just her Country, but Every Country. WHY ? Because it presented To many with very little facts to go on...to Think she Knew IT ALL..When it Became so obvious too late that she Had few facts to Back Her up. No Hero here. WE Desperately Do Need A Hero Today..But I See No one on the horizon who fills the bill. If only we Could ! Know Someone ? Another Truth. We know that 9 / 11 Was Not a Middle-
eastern , planned and carried -out Attack on our Country...but was a home=grown, instigated and carried-out Attack that was done to draw the US into invading Iraq on completely False Pretenses. A half-way position on this Truth..will never Stand.
Alan, as always you speak the truth! Glad you are back online. The world needs people with the courage to speak the truth, no matter the backlash from the overlords.
I hope we see tony Blair in The Hague soon.