Sir Tony Blair: I thought Iraq invasion was the right thing to do

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  1. invoking religion again is he? sort of, since he said it to The Archbishop – we can’t really argue with him, since you’d assume he wouldn’t have done it otherwise’

  2. That’s why he had to lie to defy a vote that he should have respected via our rules-based system. (You can see why he’s staying quiet on Russia/Ukraine)

    I’m glad Saddam is gone and everything, but had he helped rebuild Iraq rather than going after their Oil reserves like a famished dog to a bowl of Pedigree Chum, his ‘right thing to do’ BS might be easier to fall for.

  3. Don’t forget the United Nations security council voted NO invasion but USA & UK said fuck you we are doing it anyway , U N may as well of turned the lights off & sold the building

  4. Read this article and see why ukraine.will.be another humanitarian disaster of ethnic cleansing.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60631433

    >The tactic used [by the Russians] in Syria was to encircle and besiege rebel-held areas, pound them from the air and from artillery batteries, and in the end exhaust the defenders and any civilians who had not managed to escape. Many of them were killed.

    Just beacuse the west got it wrong once on Iraq doesn’t mean that we should fall in to the trap of never helping again. Kosovo action didn’t go far enough quick enough

  5. Don’t know if you can really blame Blair tho,British intelligence gave him a report & he said there wasn’t enough to warrant action so they took it back added Saddam could hit London with a ballistic missile with 45 minutes notice & gave it back to him, he shit himself & said I’ll do whatever the US does

  6. I mean at least he says this instead of trying to blame someone else. Can you imagine Boris saying I think delayed lockdown was a right thing to do?

  7. My personal opinion is that

    The invasion of Iraq was good because saddam was a twat who had attacked Iran used chemical weapons on civilian targets and invaded Kuwait and honestly we should of deposed him in ’91

    But the mismanagement by britian and the US ruined what could of been a good thing and turned it into a nightmare

    One fine example is making every person in Iraqs pre invasion army unemployed making 375,000 fighting men jobless and pushing them into the army’s of the terrorists especially as they don’t seem to of gotten anything but severance pay

    Imagine suddenly nearly 2% of the population being made jobless especially in a deeply religious society where the majority of workers are men so its probably nearer 8% after all women and children

    Tldr

    My opinion Is the invasion was long overdue but mismanagement afterwards is what ruined it

  8. Based on whether Iraq has nukes or not, either:

    Iraq does not have nukes, and the whole thing was a waste of time.

    Iraq does have nukes, and is now provoked into using them as a last ditch attempt to defend itself.

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