It’s ironical that an international court can cite Putin for war crimes in Ukraine and ignore Blair and Bush for Iraq invasion. double standards.

@shamteal8614

Жыл бұрын

Just proves that the ICC has become no more than a political tool of the West and no longer has any credibility.

@davidcoleman2796

Жыл бұрын

100%

@eighty88eight

Жыл бұрын

Decimating and killing millions of Afghans Libyan Iraqi Syrian, men woman children. Thus spreading democracy, freedom in the Middle East . . . and the love for America ! !

@eighty88eight

Жыл бұрын

Blair & Bush. Two white stereotypical, plantation owners . . untouchable !

@1aatlas

Жыл бұрын

@@eighty88eightWith freedom bombs, the white phosphorous of democracy, the depleted uranium shells of peace.

It was not a mistake. It was a deliberate act.

@GOLDSMITHEXILE

Жыл бұрын

I agree. And by even suggesting it was "a mistake" there is the implication that the original motives and intentions behind the "shock and awe," and subsequent military occupation, were decent and honourable.....and that, somehow, the project was diverted or otherwise ruined by changing circumstances, the fortunes of war, or whatever.....leading to the ongoing humanitarian disaster which DID occur. When in fact the entire thing was a cynical, calculated imperialistic war adventure from the start. From the same crowd that blew up WTC and more recently detroyed nord stream gas pipeline

@hittitecharioteer

Жыл бұрын

Blair believed it'd be a short war in a distant country soon forgotten about - but would win a deep friendship with his USA globalist pals. Obama arrived and said you'd be at the back of a queue for a trade deal; and mass migration that even affects here (🇮🇪) and Ireland had nothing to do with it! You need to bring back hanging for what your evil leaders did to Europe.

@olivethrush7450

Жыл бұрын

@@GOLDSMITHEXILE Absolutely. The Ba$tard had to be stopped. One does not need to find a civilised reason to thump a Ba$tard. If you have the means to do it just thump him and move on.

@happinesstan

Жыл бұрын

A deliberate act executed to perfection. Let's not forget there were actually two wars. The fist, illegal war was executed swiftly and efficiently because they needed to install a government who could request our assistance after we left.

@andrewoliver8930

Жыл бұрын

Promoted by the owner of this station.

I remember clearly the horror I felt when Blair made that announcement. Complete and utter madness. How he can show his face in public is beyond belief. As Hitchens says, Blair should enter a monastery and spend the rest of his days begging for forgiveness.

@NEEJER

Жыл бұрын

Blair is demonic

@robertheap2911

Жыл бұрын

Don’t forget Blair converted to Catholicism to gain repentance 😢

@thomasreed49

Жыл бұрын

Tony Blairwords I have seen The evidence of weapons of mass destruction To protect others I am unable to show the evidence. That was a bear face lie they didn’t exist. And to think he’s still breathing.

@wallacewhybrow2705

Жыл бұрын

@jean-marcevans1439 No need for a monastery. Simply lock him up, plenty of time for contemplation.

@shrunkensimon

Жыл бұрын

​@@robertheap2911 He's a sycophant. His conversion is just to get close to the real hidden hand of power

George Galloway said "Children died before they knew they were Iraqis, but for no other reason, other than they were Iraqis."

@takkiejakkie5458

11 ай бұрын

Did/would he say the same about Ukrainians? George Galloway is a Russian propaganda machine.

What's sickening is that we get dragged into the mess our politicians create by going to war most don't want. It's time governments needed a majority people's vote before doing anything, it's not their country, it belongs to us all.

@lespaul2000

Жыл бұрын

They'll just brainwash the public with their psyops and Propaganda.

@aydan0161

Жыл бұрын

I would love to agree with this but unfortunately the vast majority of the general public are mindless droids that will believe whatever they’re told to believe. I think the older you get the more you realise that so-called ‘democracy’ only works when you have citizens with critical thinking skills.

@tauntontaunton6128

Жыл бұрын

I TOTALLY AGREE

@satishkumarkn1164

Жыл бұрын

It was not a mistake. It was done deliberately. 20 years ago England was throwing bombs to kill millions in Iraq. Today it is funding food banks for its own people and looks upto Rwanda for solving its criminal gang problems. In the mean time Pakistani gangs teach "culture" to its girls in the name of "grooming" and the police are just watching. Ha ha ha..... Congratulations to England on this wonderful achievement. Even God is too powerless to save England.

@paullynch1938

Жыл бұрын

Spot on ,they want us to go to kill people who have done fuck all to us ,you don’t see them on the front line, this people need arresting, WHY isn’t it happening, it’s beyond belief

And the hypocrisy of the squeaky clean west calling Putin a war criminal is nauseating

@waynus2021

11 ай бұрын

Blair and Bush set an example to the rest of the world that an international mandate for war was simply not needed , they sowed the seeds for the Ukrainian invasion

@phillipecook3227

10 ай бұрын

Absolutely.

And we're still taking it out on Julian Assange who turned the spotlight on these abuses.

@cybercheese3

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, arrest the guy exposing war crimes, and let the perpetrators go free...

@waynus2021

11 ай бұрын

the only thing that gives me hope these days is reading comments from guys like you who also understand how this shitshow works , i sometimes feel surrounded by morons who just follow the narrative and believe whatever the mainstream (who are controlled) spew out at the time. I feel like Rik fkkng Grimes in a sea of mindless zombies

From their point of view, it wasn't a mistake. It all went according to their Agenda and so it continues with other steps....

@natashawatson385

Жыл бұрын

Exactly but we live in this parallel universe where people pretend these things are done by mistake 😮

@happinesstan

Жыл бұрын

Reinds me of this Baroness who was on Marr once, talking about the British Empire "Of course we made mistakkes" she said. It sickened me because when people make mistakes THEY should be the ones to bear the consequences.

@kiwitrainguy

10 ай бұрын

@@happinesstan Try telling that to the financial sector.

As a Canadian, I'm proud of our PM at the time Jean Chretien, for making the right decision, and not joining the US and UK in the war in Iraq.

@aydan0161

Жыл бұрын

I’ve never even considered that fact. That is impressive. When you consider that Australia (one of the worlds current dictatorships) also contributed to the invasion. Well played Jean.

@matimus100

Жыл бұрын

Prince Andrew loves this silly comment

@aydan0161

Жыл бұрын

@@matimus100 says the self proclaimed ‘Viking’… somehow I don’t think I’ll be listening to your political insight anytime soon

@robbrewer2036

Жыл бұрын

Don't forget the little crap of steel in australia.

@beewisebeestronger6224

11 ай бұрын

But there was Canadian troops there wasn't there? Or was that during the occupation , they were already in Afghanistan

To think that Blair is still trying to push himself into the front and centre of our lives, like a stain that you can't get out.

@elliotgregory3356

Жыл бұрын

Apparently he is front runner for the WEF top job when Klaus pops his clogs.....

@tommytitmouse

11 ай бұрын

and a filthy dirty Stain at that.

Maybe they are afraid of international arrest warrants .

@fraserbailey6347

Жыл бұрын

If only they were. The fact is that Blair, Campbell, Bush, Cheney et al will never be arrested. The evil is simply off the scale.

@jeffreyuprichard3754

Жыл бұрын

Why wasn't Hussain arrested for mass murder after golf war one?.

@hittitecharioteer

Жыл бұрын

@@fraserbailey6347 One can but agree 100%.

@paulgibbons2320

Жыл бұрын

They should be... But they carry on without a care in the world.

@kiwitrainguy

10 ай бұрын

@@paulgibbons2320 ...because they are part of the clique that RUN the World.

It wasn't a mistake, they knew exactly what they were doing.

@arleneevans6342

Жыл бұрын

I'm beginning to think that way too

@margaret426

Жыл бұрын

I agree & looks like they want to do it all again.

@kiwitrainguy

10 ай бұрын

@@margaret426 Yes, only this time it may ultimately involve nuclear weapons.

Who was held accountable by The Hague for our devastating war of aggression against Iraq? And imagine our outrage and fury if the Chinese or Russians had supplied weapons, ammunition and intelligence to the people of Iraq to help defend themselves against our invasion? Our hypocrisy is utterly revolting.

@waynus2021

11 ай бұрын

and imagine if the Russians and Chinese had signed an agreement (Minsk) that was legally binding that they would not expand their influence in a Westerly direction and then proceeded to attempt putting arms and bases in a Western location on the USA`s border................. the history books suggest that it didn`t go so well last time (Cuba) but that is EXACTLY what has happened here . I cannot be the only Westerner that has sympathy towards the Russians at this point?

As always, Peter speaks more sense, with more articulacy and more power, in 10 minutes than the rest of the media manages in 10 years.

@tommyrotton9468

Жыл бұрын

he is talking a load of bollocks TBH. Just look at all the surrounding Muslim nations and what happened to the Jews and Christians when Sharia started to rule as the majority. If we follow his advice, you might as well sign up to Islamisation right now

@hittitecharioteer

Жыл бұрын

Peter Hitchens speaks. The World should be listening. His thinking is ordered, born of experience and ultimately the seed of a good education. Truly a voice of sanity in this age of lunacy.

@tommyrotton9468

Жыл бұрын

@@hittitecharioteer his worldview is severely tainted, which makes his opinions biased and incorrect at times. Be sceptical and test ever opinions worth.

@StraightWhiteMan.

Жыл бұрын

@@tommyrotton9468 What are you talking about? Just stay in your lands and leave Muslims and Muslim lands alone.

@gerardk51

Жыл бұрын

@@tommyrotton9468 Do you think the invasion of Iraq halted Islamisation? It increased it! What colour is the sky on your planet?

For the best journalism on The Iraq, Middle East disaster, genocide, watch George Galloway on Moats, Colonel Douglas MacGregor, and many more.

@seanmoran2743

Жыл бұрын

Col Macgregor has been excellent on America’s Foreign Policy in the Tragedy of Ukraine

@pikebishop8516

Жыл бұрын

@@seanmoran2743 he thought Ukraine can't win this war since the beginning.

As a Tory voter (well, ex Tory) myself, I cannot forgive them for supporting the war. Only the Tories could have restrained Blair, but like idiots, they backed him 100%.

@annharding9634

Жыл бұрын

Sounds familiar.

@clivet3252

Жыл бұрын

We basically had no opposition while Blair was in power. The strongest opposition came from the backbenches, and even from the frontbenches when it came to Iraq.

@redbison6417

Жыл бұрын

Tories and Labour agree on all major issues, the choice between parties is illusion.

@andrewoliver8930

Жыл бұрын

​@@redbison6417 The Tories could have sided with the Labour rebels but decided to back Blair and his need to suck up to the US.

@redbison6417

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewoliver8930 could have... But where never going to.

It was not a mistake, it was a crime! A very big one!

@SteveXNYC

Жыл бұрын

Never a crime. A investment in the American experience.

I remember in Australia at the time everyone was saying there was no reason to go to war and yet everyone was aware the political elite wasn't going to consult us about it anyway. The control of the country by unaccountable political elites is the biggest problem in the west still today.

@andrewoliver8930

Жыл бұрын

The parties in the UK are run by the US Media owner, Rupert.

@WiseFool888

Жыл бұрын

Hear hear!

@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns

Жыл бұрын

I was one of the hundreds of thousands in Sydney who marched against it. I even knew one of the guys who wrote "no war" on the Opera House. Now we're buying nuclear subs to contain China. No democracy here at all.

I never tire of listening to you two gentlemen (and I mean that In its traditional sense. Thank you both.

@adrenalinmyride5634

Жыл бұрын

We all thought 9/11 was the game changer In hindsight Iraq has done more to the attitude of self in the West

It wasn't just Blair, MP's from BOTH Parties voted to go to war on a lie.

Do not always agree with Peter Hitchens but on the Iraq war he is totally correct. We should also never have become involved in Afghanistan or Libya. I served for 24 years and could not believe it when we went into Afghanistan. Look at the mess we have left and the people killed in other peoples countries because of arrogance. We have Putin on war crimes when Blair carries on causing trouble, total hypocrisy and double standards. In 20 years if any us are left alive, we will discussing our involvement with Ukraine.

@hittitecharioteer

Жыл бұрын

Peter Hitchens' thinking is ordered, born of a breadth of experience, and ultimately, the seed of a good education. Truly a voice of sanity in this age of lunacy.

I am growing to love Peter more and more with time. I will always love Christopher, because of his love of language. As George Galloway said Christopher wrote like an angel. And I know Christopher loved irony. My fondest hope is that one day the two brothers will embrace in heaven, where Christopher awaits Peter. I love them both.

@tommyrotton9468

Жыл бұрын

Christopher will probably give Peter a Hitchslap for being such a plonker

@robertjirava942

Жыл бұрын

@@tommyrotton9468 what a garbage comment

@tommyrotton9468

Жыл бұрын

@@robertjirava942 but neither the less a very likely occurrence. Christopher was always the more intelligent of the two.

@seanmoran2743

Жыл бұрын

@@tommyrotton9468 Christopher pushed for intervention in these places you muppet He definitely deserves the slap

@seanmoran2743

Жыл бұрын

Your hero Christopher pushed for these interventions you muppet

To this day, not one person has gone to jail for the war, and not one person has gone to jail for the 2008 financial crisis, but the taxpayer has picked up the tab for both disasters. The Ukraine war is history repeating itself.

@elliotgregory3356

Жыл бұрын

Agreed 💯👍 Also the banking system is still acting like it did pre 2008!

@ErnaldtheSaxon

Жыл бұрын

Hello, my name is Montague William 3rd. And what I will tell you may well sound absurd. But the less who believe it the better for me. For you see I'm in Banking and big industry. For many a year we have controlled your lives. While you all just struggle and suffer in strife. We created the things that you don't really need. Your sports cars and Fashions and Plasma TV's. I remember it clearly how all this begun. Family secrets from Father to Son. Inherited knowledge that gives me the edge. While you peasants, people lie sleeping at night in your beds. We control the money that controls your lives. Whilst you worship false idols and wouldn't think twice. Of selling your souls for a place in the sun. These things that won't matter when your time is done. But as long as they're there to control the masses. I just sit back and consider my assets. Safe in the knowledge that I have it all. While you common people are losing your jobs. You see I just hold you in utter contempt. But the smile on my face well it makes me exempt. For I have the weapon of global TV. Which gives us connection and invites empathy. You would really believe that we look out for you. While we Bankers and Brokers are only a few. But if you saw that then you'd take back the power. Hence daily terrors to make you all cower. The Panics the crashes the wars and the illness. That keep you from finding your Spiritual Wholeness. We rig the game and we buy out both sides. To keep you enslaved in your pitiful lives. So go out and work as your body clock fades. And when it's all over a few years from the grave. You'll look back on all this and just then you'll see. That your life was nothing, a mere fantasy. There are very few things that we don't now control. To have Lawyers and Police Force was always a goal. Doing our bidding as you march on the street. But they never realise they're only just sheep. For real power resides in the hands of a few. You voted for parties what more could you do. But what you don't know is they're one and the same. Old Gordon has passed good old David the reigns. And you'll follow the leader who was put there by you. But your blood it runs red while our blood runs blue. But you simply don't see its all part of the game. Another distraction like money and fame. Get ready for wars in the name of the free. Vacinations for illness that will never be. The assault on your children's impressionable minds, and a micro chipped world. You'll put up no fight. Information suppression will keep you in toe Depopulation of peasants was always our goal But eugenics was not what we hoped it would be Oh yes it was us that funded Nazis! But as long as we own all the media too What's really happening does not concern you So just go on watching your plasma TV And the world will be run by the ones you can't see

To think that many in the UK criticise Russia for what it’s doing in Ukraine, while believing the UK isn’t a country with blood on its hands. Fools.

@hittitecharioteer

Жыл бұрын

Blair believed it'd be a short war in a distant country soon forgotten about - but would win a deep friendship with his USA globalist pals. Obama arrived and said you'd be at the back of a queue for a trade deal; and the resulting mass migration that is devastating Europe (and even affects here 🇮🇪 in the extreme West), and Ireland had nothing to do with it! You need to bring back hanging for what your evil leaders did to Europe.

@jamiecorrigan3241

Жыл бұрын

TONY BLAIR HAS BLOOD ON HIS HANDS.

@rozzgrey801

Жыл бұрын

Try to not be so stupid and bigoted, Garry. We can criticise whoever we want for any reasons we see fit, and that's all you need to know.

@SinisterTantru3

Жыл бұрын

@@jamiecorrigan3241all of the people behind his decisions are guilty

@jamiecorrigan3241

Жыл бұрын

@@SinisterTantru3 Too True !!!

American here. Some of us tried. Sigh. I have learned we can not protest our way out of these things. Money - hit them in the money hard and fast.

@SteveXNYC

Жыл бұрын

The money is fuel for evil. Tell your birds.

Just to be pedantic, I believe it was John LeCarre's 'The Tailor of Panama' (not 'The Russia House') that was inspired by Graham Greene's 'Our Man in Havana'. Both deal with how intellegence is manufactured for the sake of both parties. Great books too!

@knickertwistcopperby6066

Жыл бұрын

I am bingeing on le Carre at present and have just finished 'A Perfect Spy'. What a work of genius! Greene is one of my favourite authors - has been for years. My conclusion: what a waste of money, time and brain space the world of espionage actually is. It is a racket. The people involved are narcissistic warmongers!

PH spot on again.

The lesson of History is... We don't learn from it 😢

@SteveXNYC

Жыл бұрын

They repeat it..😂🤣👍

and Australia didnt want to be a part of it but P.M. John Howard did. Did I miss the mention of him ?

It was no mistake…

I baked a tub of Ben & Jerry's at 200c in a fan assisted oven... that was a mistake. Butchering hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings, including children and babies blown to pieces and burnt alive, is not a mistake, it is criminal and evil. And shame on all of us who placate our own collective guilt by pretending that 'objecting' is enough. Those deaths are on all of us.

@areyouavinalaughisheavinal5328

Жыл бұрын

On all of us? You wear the guilt if you want, but I had no hand in the matter.

@adamski320

Жыл бұрын

No. No it’s not. I have no guilt, I didn’t kill anyone.

@bertiescunsbutch9323

Жыл бұрын

We don't live in a healthy democracy to be able to stop the likes of Blair and Campbell, its all set up we have no real voice.

@unitedkingdomoffiveeyes9765

Жыл бұрын

It was roughly about 300 000 that sadly lost their lives, and that is ALL over Iraq. The British were mostly in Basra and the south, and the death stats are extremely low in comparison. You make it sound like British soldiers were just butchering everyone in sight, not true. Actually, nobody rearly knows how many died, but what we do know is that the sadam regime was much worse.

@areyouavinalaughisheavinal5328

Жыл бұрын

@@unitedkingdomoffiveeyes9765 I wouldn't pay too much attention, he sounds like a left wing, blue haired, guilt tripping narcissist who needs a cause to virtue signal over, and likely wasn't even born at the time.

Blair's Words of Mass Deception. All those British servicemen's lives thrown away for his ego

Mistake is when I send a post card to the wrong address... That was something else.

Despite his brother "converting" me to Atheism, I love Peter many times more. In fact, I wish there was a hell for Christopher to go to for propagandising for that horrible war.

Mistake? A calculated and deliberate crime, more like.

AND TONY BLAIR NOW WORKING HIS 'TRICKS' IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS ~~~ SICK ~~~ BUT NOT IN THE MODERN MEANING OF THE WORD.

It was no fcuking mistake

As an Iraqi born British Citizen, I can tell you the era of the war and its aftermath were hell for my extended family which has left them deeply traumatised and we lost many family members in the ensuing chaos and collapse of the country. The British public were lied to and the hidden cost of the war is the enormous migration from countries like Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. don't forget many Iraqi's initially fled to Syria and that was a factor in creating the difficult economic conditions that led Syria to collapse and descend into Civil war. Then the huge tidal wave of migration started. You cannot just destroy a country of 30+ million people and expect there is no blowback and consequences. Yet all I see is that those who called for the war have failed upwards and been rewarded handsomely by the global elite. I guess we have to wait for justice in the next life!

@shamteal8614

Жыл бұрын

I'm sure you have the sympathy of the majority of British people who knew they were being lied to but were powerless to do anything about it yet those including Blair and Campbell receive protection from blowback whereas ordinary decent British people pay the price. I'd always believed the British democratic state was so designed a crime like that perpetrated against the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya could never happen, god was I wrong, I didn't count on a snide meglamanic like Blair.

@waynus2021

11 ай бұрын

i can only apologise on behalf of our leaders my friend , they DO NOT speak for the people of this nation and we hate them as much as you do . that war was disgusting and should never have started in the first place , Blair and Bush should be in the Hague for crimes against humanity well ahead of Mr Putin in the queue

I have served over 21 years in the military. I look back on the iraq war, and feel disgrace and anguish. Its a shame my brothers in arms died fighting an illegal war. I am the first to criticise the wests "grand standing" in the modern political environment. Listening to those who should know better, criticising Russia for indulging a precedent WE set. I am leaving our armed forces, not with a sense of pride, but with a quiet embarrasment and disgust.

IHow come American and British war criminals are not punished?

Love listening to Peter Hitchens

Why a shortened clip?

Unfortunately I don't read much these days. It takes time and a focus I rarely have. But years ago I read Our Man in Havana recommended on Hitchens Blog, and it's an excellent read. Many years after I watched the movie adaptation starring Alec Guinness which was very good.

@jayaybe1

Жыл бұрын

I know exactly what you mean. I got into reading Graham Greene last year via The Quiet American. A terrific author and well worth dipping your toe in again, even if only reading a chapter a day 😉.

Tony Blair’s legacy!

Beyond a mistake.

I am always fascinated by what Mr Hitchens has to say. Where can I find more information on what was discussed? What books, articles and official minutes should I read to understand more? Mr Hitchens mentioned the FCO response to Sadam’s attack on the Kurds; where can I find that?

'The Blair Creature!'...🤣 A Peter 'Hitch Slap'! I am sure The Late CH would laugh! Some common ground there!

@bigbong620

Жыл бұрын

The late CH was the Bush administration's useful idiot.

Peter is always right people should listen

So a deliberate war crime is now labeled as ‘mistake’

He is right that it was a disaster for the West - however, here's where he seems to be missing the bigger picture, what lead to it were things like intervention in the former Yugoslavia, all the interventions that happened under Clinton's administration(Somalia, air strikes in Iraq's no fly zone, etc.) and as he mentioned 9/11(but I suspect that Hitchens believes the official story of that), and even more importantly - it was no mistake - it was deliberate. For the powers that be, it all went according to plan - Blair, Bush and co. weren't arrested for war crimes - and they even managed to win an election afterwards.

@andrewoliver8930

Жыл бұрын

Backed by this station's foreign owner

@isobellickes8543

Жыл бұрын

And was given an “honour” afterwards.

@alphabetaxenonzzzcat

Жыл бұрын

@@isobellickes8543 Oh yes - a Knight of the Garter - no less.

I’m glad there’s Americans out there that know that we in Europe do laugh when Americans say about Russia invading another country while all Americans ever do is invade countries

Mike should get Col Macgregor on for a Macgregor half hour

@fireflyrobert

Жыл бұрын

Hear Hear!

@chrisedwards2272

Жыл бұрын

He wouldn't dare

It was not a mistake. It was a Crime.

Min) 0 . 35... And the Spanish Lackey, Jose Maria Aznar,, let's not forget,,

I wish Peter had his own show on talktv

20 years later and all of the things I felt as a teenaged "revolutionary" leftist about this war exactly what incredibly established respected conservatives now hold. Amazing to see how the overton window shifts while some actually hold solid. I can recall Christopher Hitchens' support for the war was a very confusing to a young atheist leftist and really made me start reassessing things.

Blair got rich, Bush got richer and so did the main protagonists. Good result wasn't it?

The owner of this station's other outlets, such as The Sun, backed Blair. The owner even made him Godfather to his child.

@drewski1441

Жыл бұрын

The Hypocrisy of it all...😒

Mistake is not the word, Mass Murder is the word.

Who remembers sacchi and sacchi if that is how you spell it the are advertiseing company used to sell the war to the public at that particular time

Should have stayed out of Iraq and Afghanistan

There was No mistake

Those responsible with their dark souls will burn eternal in a Hellish world of their own creation for their evil deeds

It wasn't bungled,it was and is a game of chess but it's being played by the same thing

these people should be arrested of this war and loss of life

@andrewoliver8930

Жыл бұрын

The owner of TalkTV made Blair a Godfather to his child.

Peter Hitchens quite rightly points to the influence of Dick Cheney in the GW Bush presidency but the true motive for the policies on the Middle East was nothing to do with spreading freedom and democracy. The basis for those policies was laid out in The Project For The New American Century which was all about the need to advance American hegemony in order to secure access to whatever resources would be needed to maintain their extravagant lifestyle in competition with the rest of the world. It’s this selfish greed that is resented by much of the rest of the world, not least because of the havoc and misery the pursuit of these policies has caused and is causing. The disciples, protégés,and in one case a spouse,of the authors of that document now inhabit the State Department, exerting their influence on Biden over Ukraine.

@sav7568

Жыл бұрын

Er, not really. It was all about Israel. " a new strategy for securing the realm ". In that famous sentence " the realm " was Israel not the US.

@christophershrimpton7627

Жыл бұрын

@@sav7568 I was deliberately hesitant to suggest that the motive of these policies and actions included weakening of Israel’s adversaries, especially Iran. I also wonder if the orchestration of the precipitating event might have required greater competence than the alleged offenders possessed.

@johkupohkuxd1697

Жыл бұрын

​@@sav7568 How exactly did toppling Ba'athist Iraq help Israel?

@sav7568

Жыл бұрын

@@johkupohkuxd1697 One less enemy to worry about.

@cynthiagarnham1157

Жыл бұрын

@@johkupohkuxd1697 yup, Saddam, Gadaffi and. Assad , were and are not Muslim fundimentalists. Women could wear what they liked, get a good education, jobs ect. . Now look, with the take over by fanatics, women are back in the dark ages!

Of all the politicians I have known in my life, I think I hate Tony Blair the most. There are no words to express the evil he did while in power.

Tony Blair gets to live his life as millionaire while thousands of Iraqi children lay in graves because of his actions. Sadly the colour of the skin they were born in dictates the value placed on their short lives. The horrors brought on Iraq thanks to that man are the thing of nightmares

@finty5457

Жыл бұрын

Thousands of Iraqi children?

@otablott7779

Жыл бұрын

​@@finty5457 how many Iraqi children died during the invasion bombing, the occupation killings and the sectarian violence?

@finty5457

Жыл бұрын

@@otablott7779 feel free to cite your sources. Your statement, your burden of proof. Also, what do you mean occupation killings. Are you suggesting uk or American soldiers went around killing children?

@otablott7779

Жыл бұрын

@@finty5457 You can find information on the number of brown Iraqis murdered by white American and British invaders in publications such as the Lancet report

@finty5457

Жыл бұрын

@@otablott7779 children in the thousands?

While Julian Assange is still in jail !

The IMC needs consumers!

His standards of judging seem very high and strict in what qualifies as an atrocity or crime. It seems alot of people praise Nolm's brilliance but it's a fairly narrow minded perspective.

Our man in Havana is a great book and I really love the movie with Alec Guinness. Castro came to power the very next year . The movie was filmed in Havana . Amazing history .

I was delivering supplies to Erbil, the Kurdish part of Iraq. They were selling portraits of GWBush. He was their saviour. As for WMD, I say this, Iraqi desert is immense, " MMFD, miles and miles of f@£ing desert" to paraphrase a RAF pilot. Even the local Iraqi truckers told tales of burials at night. Richard 3 was in a Tescos carpark for 300 years, technology will find stuff in the future.

Peter Hitchens' brother , Christopher was a very loud advocate for the 2nd Iraq invasion. He was adamant it was justified to 'get rid of Sadam' and his 'evil fascist party' etc.

@bigbong620

Жыл бұрын

The Bush administration's useful idiot.

@robertburke2246

Жыл бұрын

Christopher Hitchens has to be the only person who was against the gulf war and for the Iraq war.

Add John Howard, honest Johnny as per LNP. Of Australia. To the list of war criminals.

It wasn't a mistake it was very deliberate, Saddams mistake was threatening to sell oil in Euros instead of dollars that was when they decided he had to go.

I remember watching the repeated news footage of the WTC destruction on the night of 9/11 and saying to my girlfriend "we'll be going to war over this."

@groomys67

Жыл бұрын

Ooooooh you clever boy. Thank you for sharing your wisdom with us.

It wasn't a mistake. It was a conscious act. End of.

It was a mistake to invade Iraq. If the US and its allies had just focused on Afghanistan it would have had a far better chance of developing into a stable country and not being dragged back to the dark ages, and the Middle East would probably avoided the chaos of the Islamic State. One thing to remember is that the Tories supported the war and also would have had the same policy if they had been in power. Blair was too caught up in his relationship with Bush to see the wood for the trees.

PH can be quite acidic on occasion

The fact Allistar Campbell is paraded about like some elder statesman to tell us off and take the moral highground over issues like the EU on the BBC is enough to make a fly sick!

What would the Hichens household been like on the eve of the Iraq war because didn't his brother Christopher support the Iraq war

@loafersheffield

Жыл бұрын

Yes. Christopher is on record as saying that his support for the Iraq invasion was to liberate the Kurds. The only group scattered across three borders that did not have their independent nation state. His journalism took him to Iraq and he was appalled by the state of fear that Iraqis experienced under the Hussein regime. Dank did a mad lads on Uday Hussein. As per, intervention without a long term strategy for stabilising and ensuring legitimate power , combined with a poorly thought out exit strategy, left the country with a power vacuum. Just like Afghanistan. How and why do they eff it up, one country to the next? Incompetence or deliberate?

Zalensky should be careful, as you say we supported Saddam against Iran.

The gammon guy is very agreeable

‘’Blair Creature’’ best description of him so far. I admire his stance on Ukraine / Russia War.

When you mention this was the answer from others is. Whataboutery😂

Mistake ! It was a crime.

If you think they are mad at them because they invaded iraq it is not too difficult to convince yourself that they would have done it anyway.

WARS MAKE MONEY

Oil oil oil nothing else, most people wouldn’t even know where Iraq was if it didn’t have any .

I completely agree with Peter. Although interestingly his brother Christopher was a staunch advocate of the George W. Bush government's decision to go back into Iraq in 2003.

It was not a mistake, it was a war crime. Else Hitler gonna say 1000 years Reich was a mistake too😂

I remember David Steel writing just before the illegal war that he saw a "messianic glint" in Blair's eyes and got very worried. I regret not voting for Steel.

magine if just two things in the geo-political world had never happened: Number One , in 1992 when Russia abandoned Communism, George H W Bush’s State Dept. had, instead of moving NATO closer to her borders had welcomed them back into the West as a free competitor instead of adversary, and Two: George W Bush had never invaded Iraq.

America has a history of interfering in other countries, and leaving them worse off. Countries who aided them are guilty too.

Teflon Tony should be in prison

this is not an ideological thing it's about oil and money

I was driving to work, down the M50, and it came on the radio (would have been Radio 4), that they were preparing to attack Iraq, or sent them an ultimatum or something, and literally I was laughing to myself, and saying out loud, someone's going to be in hot water for this, they mean Iran (and about time too). I was stunned when I actually got to work, and realised they actually meant Iraq. Totally, why them, what the hell have they done, other than be irritating. Risky Shift, Group Think, more powerful than you think.

@adambritain5774

9 ай бұрын

Why is an invasion of Iran acceptable in your opinion?

@onastick2411

8 ай бұрын

@@adambritain5774 Well, Iran is an enemy proclaimed, of the West, and run by a theocratic cabal, who run the country by a barbaric backwards religion, by the edicts of their imaginary friends. They believe that Mo on his shining chariot will come down to save them. primitive barbarians that they are. I would merely reduce the country to rubble, and leave the Mullah's hanging in rows for public persuasion, and their Mosques a smoking ruin. After they've been swatted like a fly, they'd probably get the message. Of course for 9/11, I'd do worse than that. Hope this clears it up for you?

Dick Cheney was almost always wrong. You could almost make up your mind based on what Cheney thought. If he favored something, you knew it was a bad idea.

The Blair “creature” … Nice one Mr Hitchens!