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So he was bad for what he did in Iraq, but...

posted 4 years ago by TheMan18 (13184)
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... in Kosovo and Sierra Leone, especially Kosovo, many people consider him a hero and even children are named after him.

So that means in 1999 with UK's military intervention in Kosovo he was a hero but even since deciding to invade Iraq he has become a massively despised real life villain who is responsible for deaths of a million people, and also allegedly lied deliberately about Weapons of Mass Destruction to go to invade and in UK many feel he should get a life sentence for it.

But he wasn't evil for what he did in Kosovo though, right?

[–] TheMan18 (13184) 4 years ago

If all of any of it true, can it be said that through political power along the way, Blair became corrupted and too vain and full of himself and thus if he wasn't at all times evil, has basically leaned over to the dark side without giving it as much as a second thought when it came to deciding in 2003 with George W. Bush to invade Iraq and take Britain's forces along with it?

[–] TheMan18 (13184) 4 years ago

How the mighty has fallen - INDEED!

[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 4 years ago

Practice skepticism.

Everything you believe about him comes solely from his political enemies. Every Montague will tell you the worst about a Capulet. Try listening to both sides and not just the soundbites of the other side from your news filter.

[–] TheMan18 (13184) 4 years ago

Politics tend to always have potential dark sides to them, and when they are engaged, millions of lives are at risk of destruction and sadly, with Iraq, this is what mostly has happened. And the fact that he possibly deliberately lied his way into the war etc, well, it just cannot paint him in any favorable light at all, now can it?

[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 4 years ago

Not if you simply believe everything his political enemies tell you, no.

Again, practice skepticism.

[–] Keelai (36125) 4 years ago

Kosovo and Sierra Leone was about stopping genocide. Iraq was really about oil.

[–] TheMan18 (13184) 4 years ago

And he managed to get into conflicts involving both.

[–] TheMan18 (13184) 4 years ago

And even though it is generally believed that for this most of the credit should go to Mo Mowlan, Tony Blair is believed to have helped to achieve peace in Northern Ireland. How somewhat ironic then that when he visited Dublin for the book signing tour, he was greeted with over 200 angry protesters, over, for the most part indeed, Iraq.

[–] TriumphReq (1857) 4 years ago

Kosovo and Milosevic were different.

So perhaps you have an interesting segue there. The confidence he gained from doing the right thing by preventing Bosnians from being genocided he carried over to doing something horribly and terribly wrong in Afghanistan and Iraq.

[–] TheMan18 (13184) 4 years ago

Interestingly enough, many believe that even in Kosovo, Blair acted against the UN rules and went ahead with NATO's illegal bombing of Belgrade and Yugoslavia, so even there it wasn't as clean as some may make out to be.

And Iraq either way was his worst policy.