Shoot the messenger: PM blames media for anti-war mood

[cal04]

Tony Blair has turned the blame for his disastrous military campaigns in the Middle East on anti-war dissidents and the media.

Warning it would take the West another 20 years to defeat Islamic terrorism, the Prime Minister used a wide-ranging "swansong" lecture on defence to denounce critics and the media who have been a thorn in his side since the invasion of Iraq.

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Mr Blair was accused of "delusional ramblings" by John McDonnell, leader of the left-wing Campaign Group of Labour MPs. Alan Simpson, a leading Labour anti-war MP said: "Tony Blair is whingeing about the hundreds of thousands of people like me who opposed the war on Iraq. He totally fails to realise that soldiers and their families blame him for the reckless way he launched an illegal war with no coherent exit strategy."

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The shadow Foreign Secretary, William Hague, said: "This is yet another episode of 'Ten Wasted Years', by Tony Blair. His legacy will be an overstretched army, navy and air force.

"Our servicemen and women want to know what Tony Blair is going to do about the failure to deliver armoured vehicles to protect troops from roadside bombs in Iraq. They want to know when they will have enough helicopters in Afghanistan and when the Hercules transport fleet will get proper protection."

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2149762.ece

[Webster Green]

1. A war criminal who won't own up to his crimes..

Whatever, poodle-boy.

[Benhurst]

2. A "swansong" by a political dead duck.

:puke:

Send the war criminal to the Hague, the sooner the better.

[marmar]

3. Is it Blair or is it Bush? Hell, let's just call them Blush, or Bulair...

They're sounding like one and the same these days. Perhaps it was your bullsbit war that caused the anti-war mood, Captain Asshat?

[Desperadoe]

4. Why all the Blair Bashing?

After all, he is the best buddy of our beloved William Jefferson Clinton.