"I feel shame and regret for having supported the Iraq war ... so why can't Blair?"

[Ardent15]

"The news from Iraq was bad last week, just as it has been so often these past seven years.

Three Baghdad bombs on Monday, which killed 41, and another 18 blown up next day: by the middle of the week, more than twice as many Iraqis had been murdered by terrorists as died in the 1998 attack in Omagh, the worst atrocity of the Northern Ireland troubles.

Meanwhile, the Shia-dominated government barred hundreds of Sunni candidates from standing in the coming elections, so undermining their legitimacy and arousing fears that the country is sliding back to the bloodbath of 2006 to 2007.
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As a journalist who, in 2003, fervently believed that invading Iraq was justified – both in terms of our security and morally, to remove a truly odious regime – I shuddered when I heard that news and, as I have done so often in the intervening years, I wished I could have my time again."


More: <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1247424/I-feel-shame-regret-having-supported-Iraq-war---Blair.html>

[HillbillyBob]

1. Yea Saddam Hussain was a bad man..so is W, poppy, kissinger

and all the neokkkons with pnac. They should be eliminated with x prejudice.
I said in 1998 when I had seen a partial copy that the new 'Pearl Harbor event' they needed to start their new world order would lead to war with Iraq and or Iran..I was called foolish and worse.

I told you so! not that brings any satisfaction on my part just disgust at how easily murkins are manipulated.

[Edweird]

2. Ironically, as bad as he was, he was the most liberal guy in the region.

His country was the most 'western' going. Women could do things in Iraq that would get them whipped to death in Saudi Arabia.

[BeFree]

4. Yep

And that is why Saudi Arabia was more than happy to have us take out Saddam.
His liberalist human views were once upon a time the biggest threat to the kingdom.

That and Saddam was keeping oil prices low by flooding the market at opportune times.

[Edweird]

5. There's your 'deal with the devil'. He was 'our guy'.

"How would you like your own country?"
"You can do whatever you like"
"Just sign right here"
"Don't worry about the fine print - it's just standard contract stuff..."

[BeFree]

6. Yep

They suckered him in and used him for their own purposes.
They do plan this shit well in advance.

Old saying goes something like this: there are no accidents in political decisions and how they are arrived at.

Hell, I've used others to get my way plenty of times. Saddam was just on the world stage.

[Edweird]

3. My guess is that the reporter will never have his comments used as evidence

against him at a warcrime tribunal. Blair may be just a teeny bit concerned about that. I guess it's like how lawyers tell you not to apologize to the other driver after a wreck - the apology is an admission of guilt.