"Your lies killed my son..." Blair fails to pacify critics in torrid inquiry session

[Turborama]

Source: The Independent (UK)

By Michael Savage and Terri Judd
Saturday, January 22 2011

Tony Blair finally expressed regret yesterday for the hundreds of thousands of lives lost during the Iraq invasion, only for his long-awaited words to be met with anger by the families of some of those who lost their lives.

In emotional scenes at the Chilcot inquiry, the former Prime Minister was heckled as he said he regretted "deeply and profoundly the loss of life". Calls of "Too late" broke out as Mr Blair spoke, with one woman turning her back on him. Two others left. Rose Gentle, whose son, Gordon, was killed in Basra in 2004, shouted as Mr Blair left the hearing: "Your lies killed my son. I hope you can live with it."

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John Brown, whose son Nicholas Brown, 34, an SAS sergeant, died north of Baghdad in 2008, said he had sat through Mr Blair's evidence in disgust. "It resembled someone like Al Capone or John Gotti giving evidence in court when he knows he has bought off the judge and jury. I nearly threw up. It made everyone in there nearly sick because the man has got no regrets at all," he said. "In my view, the only way they are going to nail this guy is in a court of law, being examined by serious barristers. This inquiry is not being rigorous enough. Every time they get him on the hook, they then back off."

Peter Brierley, whose son Shaun, 28, was killed in 2003, added: "To be human, he must have some regrets. I would love to paint him as some sort of monster but he is still a human being and it must affect him. He did look worried and under pressure so it must be taking its toll, not that I regret that. It is no more than he deserves."

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/your-lies-killed-my-son-blair-fails-to-pacify-critics-in-torrid-inquiry-session-2191251.html

[CanonRay]

1. When do we get our chance to say that to Bush?

Never, in all likelihood.

[Swamp Rat]

17. One night, Dubya will fall off the wagon and find his way here.

There'll be a computer, left on by Laura who was looking up a recipe on Google, and Dubya will discover the "search" button, which he will press after he vainly types in his own name.... and voila!!

[Angry Dragon]

2. A liar, supported torture, got people killed

and then went on to write and sell a book filled with lies and made money
This is the face of politicians today
The common man or woman would be put in jail for the crimes that politicians
commit in the name of the people they swear to serve.
When the only people they serve are themselves and the elite

edit: spelling

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

[tpsbmam]

4. How wonderful to be able to confront one of the criminals. Now, to confront

the leaders of the criminal pack...I guess it's too much to hope for but damn, I'd love to see this here!

K&R

[StarsInHerHair]

5. k and r

nt

[Stuart G]

6. K and R nt

[aquart]

7. "Pressure" has been known to shorten lives.

Not as well as an IED, but still...

[dflprincess]

8. " He did look worried and under pressure "

Only for the duration of the hearing. Once it's over and he knows he's off the hook, he can relax and forget the lives he ruined.

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. " He did look worried and under pressure "

I read that in the story and thought:
Oh, well, then, I guess he has suffered enough. Poor baby.
Bush's poodle looking worried! Can't have that.

[JDPriestly]

10. Blair's contract at Yale is coming up for renewal or cancellation, I suppose.

New Haven, Conn. — Former Prime Minister Tony Blair will teach his first class at Yale on September 19, marking the start of the “Faith and Globalization Initiative,” a three-year collaboration among Yale’s Divinity School, School of Management and the Tony Blair Faith Foundation.

The potential of religious faith to bring the world’s people together rather than drive them apart will be explored through the seminar and made available to a world audience through a multi-media website (http://faithandglobalization.yale.edu).

“Global interdependence is a reality and faith is inextricably linked to that interdependence,” said Mr. Blair. “As we have seen, faith can be a source of division and destruction, but faith can also be a source of reconciliation, not conflict.”

http://opac.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6040

I doubt that his job prospects are all that great in Britain, and nobody cares about him in the US. Not really.

[Turborama]

12. He's really letting his religiosity hang out, isn't he

"The Tony Blair Faith Foundation"

Sounds almost like he's starting his own cult. That war criminal's over inflated ego makes me want to hurl.

[DeSwiss]

11. K&R

Children Of Tomorrow

Children of tomorrow
I apologize to you
On behalf of those in my time
For the things we didn't do
We didn't stop the tyrants
So your fate could be prevented
We watched them steal our freedom
By our silence we consented
We didn't choose to circumvent
The doom you've not escaped
While the Bill of Rights was murdered
And the Constitution raped

Some of us were lazy
Others too afraid
To think about our children
The ones we have betrayed
I guess we were too busy
To be concerned or care
To try to ease the burden
Of the chains we made you wear
We could have been good shepherds
When the wolf got in the fold
But we watched the flame of freedom die instead
And left you cold

I'm sorry we were timid
My selfish generation
We left you but a remnant
Of a free and prosperous nation
I'm sorry for our actions
Like cowards we behaved
We could have left you freedom
Instead you are enslaved
Children of tomorrow
Descendants of our land
I'm sorry we allowed this
The fate you now with stand

- Anonymous

[calimary]

14. Wow.

Magnificent poem. Magnificently sad, and true.

[DeSwiss]

15. Yes it is, isn't it?

Found it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL-qGSpXsEU">The Awakening.

[Kurovski]

13. K&R. (nt)

[moondust]

16. Saw Matt Damon's "Green Zone" this evening.

They should force Blair to watch it and then question him under oath.

I don't think there's much doubt anymore that the WMD claims were a conspiracy of some kind at the highest levels of the U.S. and possibly British governments. After all, Dick Cheney had been Secretary of Defense from 1989 to 1993 so he clearly knew all about "intelligence" by the time he became the Vice President who was instrumental in advocating and planning the invasion of Iraq in 2002-2003.