'He can't buy forgiveness': Fury as Blair pledges to donate book proceeds to British troops

[Turborama]

Source: Daily Mail

By NICOLA BODEN -

Tony Blair will donate the proceeds from his £4.6million autobiography to the Royal British Legion, it was announced today. The former prime minister will hand over the advance and any royalties for his memoirs A Journey, which are being published next month.

The move provoked immediate accusations he was trying to ease his 'guilty conscience' over committing troops to an 'illegal' war in Iraq.

A spokesman for the Stop the War Coalition said: 'No proportion of Tony Blair's massive and ill-gotten fortune can buy him innocence or forgiveness.

'He took this country to war on a series of lies against the best legal advice and in defiance of majority opinion. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have resulted in the pointless death of hundreds of British soldiers and hundreds and thousands of innocent civilians. No amount of money will wash their blood from his hands.'

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[aquart]

1. Can we make George suffer, too?

[Solly Mack]

2. Disgusting ploy to sell books.Guilt people into buying his book of lies.

Not buying it for Blair...buying it to help the troops ploy.

Fuck Blair and those who prop him up as anything other than what he is...a war criminal.

Same for America's war criminals.

[Turborama]

3. Good points, all. n/t

:hi:

[Nihil]

4. Well said! (n/t)

[Prometheus Bound]

5. There's a lot of blood on that man's hands that money won't wipe away.

How a war criminal can become an international statesman is beyond me.

[Nihil]

9. He paid attention to specific examples in history ...

> How a war criminal can become an international statesman is beyond me.

Henry Kissinger.

'Nuff said.

[philly_bob]

6. Blair is a tragic figure, punished by history for backing Bush craziness,

but otherwise pretty good Prime Minister.

[Beacool]

7. I agree.

Your assessment is fair and takes the man as a whole. His biggest mistake was siding with Bush. It's that "special relationship" crap.

:(

[Prometheus Bound]

12. What did he do that was 'good'?

He lied well, I'll give you that.

[Turborama]

13. I'd like to hear some DUers from the UK answer that question

Apparently, "New Labour" meant "More to the Right Labour" and was the most authoritarian government Britain has had for a long time.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/ukparties2010

[Lydia Leftcoast]

14. I happened to be in Wells, England the day that Blair resigned

Since Wells is small (it's where the movie Hot Fuzz was filmed) and shuts down almost completely after 6PM, I went up to my hotel room after dinner and started watching TV.

The evening news showed Blair being driven away from #10 Downing Street for the last time and a crowd of Iraq vets and family members of killed and wounded booing him.

[philly_bob]

15. Would like to hear UK Du'ers on Conservatives/Tories that took over. (nt)

[Turborama]

16. Me too, and how they feel about the Liberal Democrats now. n/t

[truebrit71]

20. Bunch of sellouts. They will be marginalized at the next GE for their part in the new govt.

Clegg single-handedly destroyed the party.

[truebrit71]

19. As with the rethuglicans when a con is in office at least you KNOW you're going to get fucked..

...

[truebrit71]

18. He did the same thing Clinton did..turned hard right as soon as he got in office..

..turened out to be an utter and complete disaster..

[Odin2005]

17. No, he was a Corporatist scumbag. The British version of the DLC.

[MilesColtrane]

8. I can't imagine George Bush doing this because,...

1) He doesn't give a shit what people think of him.

2) He doesn't give a shit about the troops.

3) He has no conscience to assuage.

and

4) He couldn't write a book to begin with.

[Bragi]

10. He should save his money to pay his war crimes defence team /nt

[SILVER__FOX52]

11. Money doesn't compensate for one, single drop of blood......

let alone, a dead soldier. May God have mercy on his soul.

[Raster]

21. War Criminal.

He knew the invasion and occupation of Iraq was illegal and predicated entirely on lies. He knew. Period. He was an accomplice.

[provis99]

22. he's not giving money to the troops. It's going to the right-wing Royal Legion.

Those assholes are every bit as right-wing as the American legion. Fuck you, blair.