Blair Affair, the Lies Continue

Tony Blair has managed to degrade all values dear to Parliament. His conduct towards the Commons was utterly cynical and his behaviour over Abu Ghraib lack in all decency or morality.

Tony Blair

Let’s give the first word to Tony Blair: ‘It is of paramount importance that ministers give accurate and truthful information to Parliament, correcting any inadvertent error at the earliest opportunity.’ So stated in the ministerial code of July 2001 drawn up by the same Tony Blair at that time PM (for Prime Minister) of the United Kingdom.

While Tony Blair was PM, the Government put a ban on all tobacco advertising. All tobacco advertising, except that of a very rich man. We talk of Bernie Ecclestone, the man who makes millions each year from Formula 1 motor sports. The PM declared to Parliament that the exclusion of Formula 1 sports events from the ban had been done through normal Whitehall processes. In reality, the decision was taken by Blair himself only hours after meeting Ecclestone in Downing Street.

In May 2004, leaked documents and shocking photographic evidence exposed the nauseating practices of maltreatment commonly used by U.S. personnel on Iraqi prisoners. Abu Ghraib has become a name of shame, and nobody will ever trust a United States Government again after that. These atrocities have put a further fatal taint on all US troops after the Vietnam War and many more crimes against civilians and prisoners.

After the international outcry over this barbarism, Tony Blair played the dumb coxcomb he is and pretended not to know anything. ‘It is not correct that ministers or I were aware of those allegations in respect of American troops.’ This statement was never corrected.

Now, Bill Rammel, who was a Junior Foreign Office minister at that time, has issued a statement to the effect that he had been briefed by the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross during a meeting in Geneva taking place seven weeks before the PM made the above statement to the Commons. He further stated that he convened an emergency meeting of Foreign Office officials immediately and was assured there that defence ministers were aware of the fact and had taken steps.

This goes to show, Tony Blair is not only a war criminal, but also a liar. He has actively demoted the post of Prime Minister to that of menial helper of a war crazed chimpanzee. This makes the eulogy by Adam Boulton even more sickening than it already is. Read my review on ‘Memoirs of the Blair Administration’ here.

As every politician is hankering after the post of PM (for Prime Minister) all his life, all his life is spent in training to be PM (for Principally Mendacious).

Further reading
The Catholic Invasion
Prime Minister for Dinner
The Secret War