Blair memo provides ammo for critics
Less than a day after a revelation that Tony Blair had plotted the invasion of Iraq a year before it actually happened speculations are rising in Britain over how this could provide more ammunition to criticisms against the former prime minister.
Lindsey German from Stop the War Coalition told Press TV on Sunday that the revelation testifies the hypothesis that Blair took an illegal decision to take Britain to war in Iraq.
“His decision was illegal regardless to anything else that happened. To say that we are going to war not about the defense of Britain or the United States but effectively about regime change,” said German.
“I think what the memo does is to give us further proof that Blair should be … prosecuted as a war criminal (in The Hague),” she said.
Also, Chris Bambery, a UK-based journalist, writer and broadcaster, told Press TV that the revelation by the British media regarding Blair’s decision over the Iraq war is not a big surprise but is nonetheless a fresh proof that the former prime minister “was a liar”.
“It proves what the anti-war movements were saying from the first moments that an invasion of Iraq was obviously in the planning,” Bambery told Press TV’s UK Desk in an exclusive interview.
“It proves essentially that Blair is a liar which is why many people in Britain believe, which is why there is a growing chorus that Blair should be brought to book as an international war criminal.”
Bambery further said that no specific action should be expected against Blair because “the British establishment will come together to protect him”.
However, he emphasized that chances are that he could soon find it increasingly difficult to travel the world.
“He may face prosecution for war crimes charges anywhere he goes,” Bambery added.
The Mail on Sunday revealed a White House memo that showed Blair and the ex-US president George W. Bush had secretly prepared the Iraq war plot behind closed doors in Texas back in 2002.
The document was sent by former US secretary of state Colin Powell to Bush in March 2002.
The Mail said the memo and other sensitive documents were part of a batch of secret emails held on the private server of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton which US courts have forced her to reveal.
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