We were right to invade Iraq, defiant Blair tells families
Blair's at it again.
A defiant Tony Blair yesterday told the grieving families of British soldiers killed in Iraq that he could not apologise for the invasion because he believed it was the "right thing" to do.
"I understand for these families, it is a time of immense grief and anguish, but I can't say what I don't believe," said Mr Blair. "I don't believe it was wrong to get rid of Saddam."
The argument, of course, is not whether or not it was "right" to get rid of Saddam. The argument is whether or not it was "right" to invade Iraq at the time when we did for the reasons that we stated.
All of our reasons for invading Iraq have subsequently proven to be false. The invasion and subsequent loss of the lives of British soldiers could only be justified to those soldiers families were we able to prove that Saddam was a danger and, that by laying down their lives, those dead soldiers prevented the deaths of many others. Blair is not able to do so. So, he falls back on the totally false argument that Saddam was a bad man, which is an utter irrelevance.
Interviewed by Sky News, Mr Blair said the Western world should stop apologising for trying to do the "right thing" in Iraq although he admitted his views were not shared around European capitals.
"We're not making it worse, they [the terrorists] are making it worse. Until the Western world stops apologising for its values, stops apologising for the work its troops are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan, we're never going to defeat this."
Ah, so that's what's wrong in Iraq... Those pesky soldiers keep "apologising" for our values.
It's simply astonishing that almost four years since the invasion, a longer time period than the US was engaged in WWII, that Blair still finds himself offering such pathetic excuses for why "the liberation" is not a success.
Of course, like Bush, Blair realises that his legacy is tied up with the disaster now unfolding in Iraq; so we are asking too much if we ever expect him to honestly acknowledge the sheer scale of his defeat.
However, he really should realise that soldiers lives should only ever be risked at a time when our country faces maximum danger, when there is no choice other than to resort to military means. The very fact he can stand in front of the families of fallen soldiers and make this specious argument, proves that this point is totally lost on him.
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