Tony Blair heckled as he says 'no regrets' over Iraq at end of inquiry grilling

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article7008777.ece

Tony Blair was heckled from the public gallery at the Iraq inquiry tonight as he wrapped up a dramatic day of testimony by declaring that he had no regrets about ousting Saddam Hussein.

The former Prime Minister spent six hours testifying to Sir John Chilcot's panel as it painstakingly pieced together the sequence of events leading up to the Iraq invasion in March 2003 and openly admitted that he had been ready to commit British troops almost a year earlier.

Outside the QEII conference centre in Westminster hundreds of antiwar protesters, chanting slogans such as "Blair lied, thousands died!" and "Jail Tony!"

They were denied a clear view of the former Prime Minister, who slipped in by a back entrance two hours before the hearing was due to start and was whisked away afterwards by his security detail.

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This evening as he was wrapping up, one member of the audience shouted at him: "You're a liar." A second added: "And a murderer."


I have no regrets says defiant Blair
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At the end of a gruelling day some members had to be led out of the hearing room sobbing, after breaking down in tears.
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However his appearance infuriated some of the families of troops killed in the conflict sitting in the audience, who accused him of being "smug" and "smarmy".
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/i-have-no-regrets-says-defiant-blair-1882847.html

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[FiveGoodMen]

1. Come on, UK. MAKE him regret it.

[mudplanet]

2. I listened to this jerk on the BBC tell us that, given that Saddam was

a dangerous man, who'd killed over 300 thousand of his own people, invading Iraq was the right thing to do.

So, essentially, because Saddam was such a mass murderer we HAD to invade Iraq and cause the death of over a million people.

Why doesn't someone call him out on this bullshit logic? The panel sat there and listened to this like it was logical.

Iraq remains a mess, nearly ten years later. Much of the country has no reliable electricity or sanitation.

Some people, who will go unnamed here, need to hang for this.