The most brilliant demolition job on Blair's version of reality with those pesky little facts....

Mehdi Hasan

Mehdi Hasan’s polemical take on politics, economics and foreign affairs

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Our ex-prime minister is still the best Bliar in the business.

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I can say that never did I guess the nightmare that unfolded, and that too is part of the responsibility

Never did you guess? But why did you have to "guess"? Six of the country's top academic experts on Iraq and international security warned TB, in a face-to-face meeting in November 2002, that the consequences of an invasion could be catastrophic. Cambridge University's George Joffe, one of the six invited to Downing Street, got the impression of "someone with a very shallow mind, who's not interested in issues other than the personalities of the top people, no interest in social forces, political trends, etc". Meanwhile, the Joint Intelligence Committee warned TB in February 2003 that the threat from Al Qaeda "would be heightened by military action against Iraq".

Inconvenient truth.  Brilliant work!