UK’s deceitful ideologue should be tried for Iraq war crimes: Expert

Tony Blair is "a deceitful and manipulative ideologue," who should be tried for war crimes over his role in the 2003 Iraq war and for deceiving a naive British public, but instead he is discussing the threat of political uprising in the West, an international lawyer and political analyst says.

In a phone interview with Press TV on Wednesday, Barry Grossman called the former British prime minister a “fraudulent and corrupt progressive” as well as “a Bill Clinton clone.”

On Monday, Blair warned that political upheavals in the West, including Britain’s vote to leave the European Union in June and the November 8 election of Donald Trump as president of the US, as well as the collapse of the Italian government on Sunday, signals the most dangerous time for Western democracies in decades.

"It does feel perilous, actually, because I think there are decisions that are being taken of vast moment in circumstances where systems are fragile, and that is troubling," Blair told the USA Today newspaper during a trip to Washington.

‘Blair advanced the New World Order agenda’

“I find it bizarre that Tony Blair is still speaking publicly given that nobody is interested in anything he has to say, apart from insiders involved in promoting the same special interests he has long served and the wider establishment which he notes is being largely rejected by an angry electorate which has had enough of business as usual,” said Grossman, who is based in Bali, Indonesia.

“There is nothing particularly insightful about Tony Blair’s most recent comments and the only place where he should have a platform to speak publicly is the defendant’s dock in a criminal court trying him for his war crimes against Iraq and his deception of the British public while he was prime minister. He certainly brings nothing productive to the difficult process of addressing the issues of our day,” the analyst stated.

"At his best, he was nothing more than a Bill Clinton clone who went so far as to use key members of Clinton’s team to model his own victorious election campaign on the same ‘promise nothing and say anything’ tricks pioneered by Clinton,” he argued.

“At his worst, he was a deceitful and manipulative ideologue willing to commit any crime to advance the New World Order agenda he and his ilk have worked decades to foist upon an uninformed, gullible and naive public,” the lawyer noted.

In March 2003, the US and Britain invaded Iraq in blatant violation of international law and under the pretext of finding WMDs; but no such weapons were ever discovered in Iraq. More than one million Iraqis were killed as the result of the US-led invasion, and subsequent occupation of the country, according to the California-based investigative organization Project Censored.

‘Blair’s contrived diplomatic positions’

Grossman said, “The irony of Blair lamenting today’s nascent broad spectrum public rage at the Atlantic World establishment is completely lost on him, bearing in mind that the only reason he is still prancing around the globe under cover of various ever changing quasi-official portfolios, is that he was very much a key player in pushing the Atlantic World dominated international system we call the New World Order across the line."

"So naturally today’s Atlantic World leaders are more than happy to keep him cloaked in the immunities that come with the contrived diplomatic positions bestowed on him so that he can remain insulated from any and all attempts to hold him legally accountable, while continuing to work behind closed doors to advance their cause,” the international lawyer explained.

‘Blair and Clintons sold out their people’

“The public is waking up to the fact that fraudulent and corrupt progressives like Tony Blair and the Clintons sold out ‘the people’ and the cause of genuine social justice to corporate and special interests which dominate the think tanks that formulate both the domestic and foreign policies prescribed to all the dominant political parties,” he stated.

“Fake progressive like Blair have always been equally willing to embrace neoliberal economic policies and neoconservative foreign policies, while paying lip service to the ideal of social justice. That said, they are neither liberals nor conservatives and certainly not progressives, so much as pragmatic corporatists who always keep a keen eye on their own personal self-interest,” the commentator noted.

“Their corrosive legacies are the main reason we now see a widespread public backlash against them and their corrupt business-as-usual way of advancing agendas which serve anything but the interests of social justice, security, progress, or the people,” he explained.

“Yes, things will apparently get a lot worse before they can get any better, largely because political parties opposing the hard-right have been fully infiltrated and corrupted by special interests and refuse to learn anything from their mistakes or get back to placing principle above political pragmatism, and the people above big business,” the analyst concluded.

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