General Election 2019

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snottyotter

Only if he hadn't already won in the 90's and could fool people all over again and do some fresh wars.

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Stonehedge in reply to @snottyotter

I find it very frustrating that the complex series of geopolitical events that led to the deaths of at least three million people (including a genocide of 250,000 Kurds) involving Iraq, Iran, Russia, Germany, the UK and the USA is so often distilled down to "Tony Blair is a war criminal" and accusations of warmongering by just one participant.

I'm not for a second saying that there is not a lot of blood on his hands but it does deflect the blame from a lot of people with far worse culpability.

I think it also insulting to the memories of the dead from those wars that "Tony Blair is a war criminal" has been used to campaign against Labour.

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Oliver Schick in reply to @Stonehedge

You know all of this, but the focus on Saint Bambi is because he so obviously lied and because nobody expected much of Bush. There is also the assumption that the US wouldn't have started the Iraq war without the UK.

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