Tony Blair: Iran extremism like rise of 1930s fascism

Tony Blair has popped back into the limelight to remind me, once again, of how much I have come to loathe him:

He told the audience, which included New York governor Eliot Spitzer and mayor Michael Bloomberg, that Iran was the biggest exporter of the ideology, and that the Islamic republic was prepared to "back and finance terror" to support it.

“Out there in the Middle East, we’ve seen... the ideology driving this extremism and terror is not exhausted. On the contrary it believes it can and will exhaust us first," he said.

“Analogies with the past are never properly accurate, and analogies especially with the rising fascism can be easily misleading but, in pure chronology, I sometimes wonder if we’re not in the 1920s or 1930s again.

“This ideology now has a state, Iran, that is prepared to back and finance terror in the pursuit of destabilising countries whose people wish to live in peace.”

So there we have it, Ahmadinejad is the new Hitler according to Blair. There are many who used to claim that Blair was Bush's poodle, but that rather missed the point about Blair and his weird religious certainty, which was similar to Bush's but not driven by it.

Bush, rather than forcing Blair to adopt his appalling neo-con stances towards Iraq, was actually pushing against an open door. Tony is a believer.

The analogy between Iran and Nazi Germany is simply ludicrous on it's face. Hitler invaded and occupied other European country's. What the Hell has Ahmadinejad done that is even remotely along those lines?

But Tony makes the analogy whilst covering himself by stating that, "analogies with the past are never properly accurate". This one is not only not "properly accurate", it's stark raving bonkers.

This speech only reminds us how lucky we are that he is no longer the British Prime Minister.

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Tags: Tony Blair, Iran, Hitler