Tony Blair Responds To The Iraq Inquiry In Full 

Well said

he mentions Iraqis, both civilians and combatants, at the very onset of the speech. As British PM he was chiefly responsible for the welfare of British servicemen and women, so it is to be expected he would focus mostly on that aspect.

He’s a tool

@@simonzonenblick395 He is responsible for their deaths, not their welfare.

@@simonzonenblick395 a mass murderer of 1 million iraqi deliberately

Because Tony Blair did not have to join America in their fight in Iraq. The united states felt that they were already at war due to 9/11. Tony Blair wanted to involve himself and his country in to a war which had nothing do with him. Which costs the lives of our British troops which then created terrorist attacks in our UK home land.

@Ibbs 69 true

Americans are way more pro-war than British are

Because the UK has checks and balances on it's head unlike the USA with it's arms industry,war thirst and we can do anything we fancy etc. Britain's only problem is being USAs lapdog!

Because Britain has higher standards than America, how we have fell to their level is beyond me

Anyway Gadaffi was good to his people...

I honestly don't think that is what he has suggested as such; rather, he has always said that the intelligence reports he received at the time led him to believe there was at least a very good chance that Saddam posed an existential threat to the UK, due to his apparent weapons capabilities and links with Al Qaida (both of which we now know to have been exaggerated or non-existent) and that to have not responded to this perceived threat would have been a dereliction of duty. One may argue about the manner of the response, but that has always been my understanding of his defence.

@@simonzonenblick395 Saddam posed no threat to the UK or US and Blair and Bush both knew that, the war was about Bush'd vendetta with Saddam

@@hueyfreeman1983 Looks like that’s the reality of it.

@@simonzonenblick395 Everybody competent knew Saddam wasn't housing Al Qaeda, he was way too secular for their taste and was hated by Saudi Arabia and the Wahhabis in general, he was after Iran and Israel probably the regime Al Qaeda disliked the most in the Middle East...

joseph Spot on

Robo Redneck god would’ve destroyed the west if they attacked Saudi Arabia.

Robo Redneck they caused the WTC attack to make it seem like the east was the enemy. They invaded an innocent country declared their leaders as dictators all for their oil. They started extreme groups played both sides funded them and left the destruction after they got their petrol. There will be a war soon and the western governments and extremist groups will all be destroyed in a matter of 150 years. This was all prophesied in all scripture of the abrahamic religions.

I swear ooooo

@@YousifAziz No, it was Mossad. The Dancing Israeli's, 5 of them were caught and released soon after it happened.

Tell me about it

@Ardent Fan and if they didnt intervene they would have the blood of millions dying because of Saddam's wars or genocides on their hands.

Exactly. Just unbelievable. The billionaire press, Tory tabloids etc. have absolutely wrecked the state of political discourse in this country, and need to be reined in hard.

@@jackdutfield6096 Saddam killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis by sending them against iranian trenches or bombing them, Blair and his ilk killed hundred of thousands of Iraqis by sending them against eachother and bombing them, I fail to see the difference, especially considering Blair and his friends did more damage in 3 years of occupation than Saddam had done in nearly 30 years of rule...

@@jackdutfield6096 Saddam's started two wars, Blair also started two, I also fail to see the difference.

He made £320 million just of the war in his back pocket that’s just a back hanger

Very interesting comments many politicians have no hesitation in sending other parents sons to be killed as there are many fatalities in war. But protect and make sure there sons dont go to war. But pursue lucrative business careers that's why for me the money euan his son who went to America and it benefited him immensely look at the educational establishment he went to in America.

He sounds like Crooked Hillary Clinton. No matter what, just keep on lying. I am hearing a familiar phrase in all of these crooked politicians, "At the time." Which is bullsh*t. What about foresight? What about history? What about the use of our intelligence forces? I am getting sick and tired of these crooked politicians.

Court Reporter the intelligence forces are the main reason the whole thing went bad. Both country’s intelligence agencies were at fault for most of the errors that Bush and Blair are now roasted for and I can almost guarantee they both blame the whole screw up on them. Also another thing that’s almost never mentioned is the fact the whole Iraq war had been brewing long before 9/11 (even before 98 when he kicked out the UN overseers) and the Afghanistan war. The decision was made easier by 9/11 and the new terrorist threat bc Saddam was a psychopath and hated both the US & UK and was very likely to give/sell WMDs to those terrorists to get revenge for Desert Storm and all the interference and sanctions we gave him. The one gripe the UK citizens do have that I agree with is how under equipped the UK forces were and how it made their life much more difficult than it needed to be over there. They had nowhere near the resources the US forces had even down to the kit they wore I was shocked at how much more we had than them. There were even countries that had a fraction of their number that were better equipped (Danes come to mind). Now that I agree is completely inexcusable.

It’s got a democratic government which is better than Saddam. Not sure if that was worth a whole war tho… and like half a million people dying…

He’s fake, invented, not real.

accually no one with any pinch of humanity should agree with blair the guy is basically saying iraq refused to bow to us soo we felt threatened and killed thousands (around a million accually) so they could have their freaking oil

The movie “W” is a movie, NOT a documentary. Do not take it all as fact.

They killed over 200000 people

Always oil. Sounds logical but it isn’t. Iraq produces 3% of global supply. The US consumed 20%. People wake up.

This is obviously why it's important about why and how people should vote before anything happens so that the people are consulted and felt heard

It’s nothing to do with oil. Just looking at oil production numbers reveal that Iraq produces 3% of global production. Let’s look at facts. What would my people eat if the oil taken way? Live under sadam in Iraq before grandstanding

yep

Saddam was a monster, our Tony is a hero

Tony is an egoistic war-thirst monster who thought he was a hero, and turned out to be just a door-watching dog of GW Bush. He definitely go to hello, and Hades will give him a new ID in hell "Idiot-Hero-Dog".

i agree tony is a hero if tony was still in power he would have sorted isis out

isis dont exist

History already happened and was planned.

He thinks history hasn't yet come to a view on Iraq

That he is

idiot

He's a damnable devil

No surprise there. Ever wondered why the West is so rich? Because they stole everything from these countries.

He never said it was. He said there was a very real risk of rouge states colaborating with terrorists on WMD in a post-9/11 world. He was completely right.

And yet they won the election that followed the war. Their biggest defeat came under Corbyn, who famously opposed it.

+TheMattd546 I hate him

He won 9 and a half million votes in 2005 after it was discovered that Iraq did not have WMD capability, so there were at least 9 million people post-Iraq who supported him

@@HazeyEd1ts 9.5 million dumb brits

A million against one man wow

GTFO - the world is a better place without saddam - Blair did a good job

which law did Tony Blair break?

Well the thing is housing Ben Laden isn't a justification for ruining a country... The coalition should have destroyed Al-Qaeda's network there while being allies of the northern alliance and let them oversee afghan politics instead of putting in their greedy fingers while not knowing anything about the country, putting Karzai and his kleptocrats in charge and creating the most pathetic and corrupt government in Aghanistan in 60 years of failed regimes...

eh?

Truly sad 😔

Did a million Iraq’s die

I know a lot of things are hidden in this world

Middle East would be so much more peaceful if it wasn;t for him or Bush.

Ryan Odonnell The Arab Spring has been a disaster...look at Egypt...Sisi is worse than the last western imposed disaster and that was not the Muslim Brotherhood. Dont bother to go on about the MB cus if the West hates them then they are the best thing for the ME.

Iraq 2003 wouldn't have happened without 9/11 (likely)

sadako24 justice for what where is the WMD , now North Korea , Iran Pakistan and many other countries have WMD why can't these rascals go regime change in these countries countries

it's the pressure!!!

sympathy tactic.

Interesting, because as a woman, if threatened my voice goes really deep... Probably fight or flight, he knew he was under threat.

Boycott oil

They can't get any more oil in the same manner, so now he's turned his attention to hydrogen and electric batteries instead...

What crime did he commit?

kissenger and over neo cons apposed the intervention

+LucaEnzo Kissinger is hardly a neocon. He's mostly opposed to the Wilsonian idealism of neoconservative and much more indebted to realpolitik.

+Joseph hes a neolib and a neocon. hes a globalist. he was on the 911 commission.

Oh bore off, Kelly topped himself, case closed

​@@philbrainy2399no he didnt

France rejected US leadership and was right, Blair accepted it and is a criminal.

@@azarshadakumuktir4551 Exactly.

He won't. War crimes only cover battlefield atrocities.

What crime did he commit?

Imagine being this thick

Not true. He is a human being who has to live with a controversial decision that he made that led to millions of deaths. His own wealth and freedom is not at risk at all, only his conscience and reputation. People need to stop talking about politicians as if they are different to every other person on the planet. It's not fair, and even more importantly, not true.

U are spot on my friend👍

@@alexrothwell2053 Well since he spent half his time here justifying his actions he doesn't seem that remorsefull, especially considering some of the statements he makes.

Hahaha nice one mate

Oh shut up. Easy for a pub talker like u to sit there and criticise. Blair made real decisions! #NewLabour #TeamBlair

Truth in plain sight. Blair wants to avoid karmic retribution

He just got a knighthood wtf

@@aliencyborg3660 disgusting to think the queen of peedos is rewarding him.

I think he had no other choice

No one knows. We appeased Hitler prior the 2nd world war, many historians believe if we had declared war sooner, the war would not have been as catastrophic

GLOKD It was because of the insurgency that ruined everything.

craig shaw he looks fine.

Yes

What's funny about that?