Tony Blair Must Be Prosecuted

[unhappycamper]

Tony Blair Must Be Prosecuted
Thursday 05 August 2010
by: John Pilger, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

Tony Blair must be prosecuted, not indulged like his mentor Peter Mandelson. Both have produced self-serving memoirs for which they have been paid fortunes. Blair's will appear next month and earn him £4.6 million. Now, consider Britain's Proceeds of Crime Act. Blair conspired in and executed an unprovoked war of aggression against a defenseless country, which the Nuremberg judges in 1946 described as the "paramount war crime." This has caused, according to scholarly studies, the deaths of more than a million people, a figure that exceeds the Fordham University estimate of deaths in the Rwandan genocide.

In addition, four million Iraqis have been forced to flee their homes and a majority of children have descended into malnutrition and trauma. Cancer rates near the cities of Fallujah, Najaf and Basra (the latter "liberated" by the British) are now revealed as higher than those at Hiroshima. "UK forces used about 1.9 metric tons of depleted uranium ammunition in the Iraq war in 2003," the Defence Secretary Liam Fox told Parliament on 22 July. A range of toxic "anti-personnel" weapons, such as cluster bombs, were employed by British and American forces.

Such carnage was justified with lies that have been repeatedly exposed. On 29 January 2003, Blair told Parliament, "We do know of links between al-Qaida and Iraq...." Last month, the former head of the intelligence service, MI5, Eliza Manningham-Buller, told the Chilcot inquiry, "There is no credible intelligence to suggest that connection ... that gave Osama bin Laden his Iraqi jihad." Asked to what extent the invasion exacerbated the threat to Britain from terrorism, she replied, "Substantially."

The bombings in London on 7 July 2005, were a direct consequence of Blair's actions.

Documents released by the High Court show that Blair allowed British citizens to be abducted and tortured. The then-Foreign Secretary Jack Straw decided in January 2002 that Guantanamo was the "best way" to ensure UK nationals were "securely held."

[hlthe2b]

1. If the Brits were somehow able to persue Blair....

how, then could we justify not doing so to Bush* et al? Maybe it would force the international community to step forward and do what we refuse to do?

[TheBigotBasher]

2. Blair

The Neo Con Labour Terrorist PM. If he is not tried I hope he wakes up every night, sweating with images of the dead and mutilated firmly implanted in his mind, people who were killed and maimed because of him.

Without B-liar selling the Iraq War to not only the British Parliament but the US Congress as well there would have been no Iraq War. He has more blood on his well greased hands than the Shrub.

[ThomWV]

3. If you can prosecute the poodle you can prosecute the master - short leash.

[stray cat]

4. if the south would have won the civil war Lincoln would have been a war criminal

[ThomWV]

5. No, and if Hitler had won WW-II he would have still been a war criminal

Its not a matter of who won or lost the war, a war crime is still a war crime.

[malaise]

6. K&R

And the West Continues to argue that we are civilized. We're the enemies of life and peace.

[amborin]

7. Bush, too