Tuesday, November 03, 2015

Save the apologies, just stop promoting war!

Usually when politicians apologize it’s because they have been caught doing something wrong, or they are about to be caught. Such was likely the case with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who recently offered an “apology” for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Blair faces the release of a potentially damning report on his government’s conduct in the run-up to the 2003 US/UK invasion of Iraq.

Similarly, a batch of emails released from the private server of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton show Blair pledging support for US military action against Iraq a full year before the decision to attack had supposedly been made. While Prime Minister Blair was assuring his constituents that he was dedicated to diplomacy in the Iraq crisis, he was communicating through back channels that he was ready for war whenever Bush decided on it.

A careful observer of public opinion, Blair took the surprising step of “apologizing” for the Iraq war during an interview on CNN last month.

However, there are two other characteristics of politicians’ apologies: they rarely take personal blame for a misdeed and rarely do they atone for those misdeeds. Full story...

Related posts:
  1. Pressure builds on Blair over Chilcot report as it's revealed ministers were...
  2. Blair accused of ‘passing the buck’ over Iraq...
  3. Smoking gun emails reveal Blair's 'deal in blood' with George Bush over Iraq...
  4. White House in Chilcot 'cover-up': America bans crucial files that could...
  5. Tony Blair 'should be dragged in shackles to war crimes court'
  6. The story of Bush and Blair's great lie...

No comments:

Post a Comment