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   On 3月19æ—¥, 下堠 
   ˆ10時35分, acous...@panix.com (lo yeeOn) wrote:   
   > Blair is still bluffing: "...how can you regret removing somebody who   
   > was a monster, who created enormous carnage?"   
   >   
   > When you hear this kind of response, you begin to wonder how true any   
   > single statement any of these warmongers have uttered in public can   
   > be.   
      
   The British magazine has an article with the title of "Anniversary of   
   a mass   
   delusion." So, may be Blair was not lying nor bluffing. He is still   
   delusional   
   like many Americans, then and now.   
      
   I also think British leaders are of the thick skin sort. The US had   
   apologized   
   for many of its crimes. The British government which according to   
   some   
   researchers had killed 1.8 billion Indians still behaves as if it is   
   the light of   
   the earth.   
   >   
   > So, no wonder that we have an immediate response from a Lebanese-Iraqi   
   > architect and blogger based in London, Karl Sharro, who reported has   
   > bitterly mocked Mr. Blair's 45-minute claim this week, as the former   
   > prime minister continued to defend the war.   
   >   
   >   Karl Sharro @KarlreMarks   
   >   
   >   Press reports suggest that Tony Blair can be deployed within 45   
   >   minutes to declare that he doesn't regret his decision to invade   
   >   #Iraq.  12:57 PM - 18 Mar 13   
   >   
   >   Karl Sharro @KarlreMarks   
   >   
   >   The invasion of Iraq forced my entire family there to leave   
   >   permanently and I don't know when will I see it again. Sorry for not   
   >   cheering.  1:36 PM - 19 Mar 13   
   >   
   > We also know the rest of the story.  The reason why Karl is so   
   > pessimistic about his chances of returning home to Iraq is because   
   > Iraq has become a failed state and is unlivable for those who grew up   
   > and lived there all their lives until the barbarous invasion and   
   > occupation.  For as long as the billion-dollar US embassy continues to   
   > exist, Iraq will continue to be a failed state and unlivable for   
   > anyone except those who can afford to live in the bunkers.   
   >   
   > lo yeeOn   
   >   
   > March 19, 2013, 1:21 pm 17 Comments   
   >   
   > Blair Says Iraq Would Be "Worse Than Syria"   
   > Now, if Antiwar Critics Had Prevailed   
   >   
   > By ROBERT MACKEY   
   >   
   > Defending Britain's participation in the American-led invasion of   
   > Iraq, former Prime Minister Tony Blair told the BBC that Iraq "would   
   > look a lot more like Syria, and probably a lot worse than Syria,"   
   > today if the war had not taken place.   
   >   
   > Mr. Blair's comments were broadcast as at least 52 people were killed   
   > by more than a dozen car bombs across Baghdad on Tuesday, the eve of   
   > the 10th anniversary of the invasion, which removed Saddam Hussein   
   > from power but led to a bloody insurgency and sectarian violence.   
   > Estimates of the civilian death toll in Iraq since 2003 vary, but The   
   > Associated Press has concluded that more than 100,000 Iraqis were   
   > killed, along with nearly 4,500 Americans and 179 British troops. The   
   > United Nations estimated in January that more than 60,000 Syrians had   
   > died in the civil war there.   
   >   
   > Focusing the conversation not on the tens of thousands of civilian   
   > deaths but on the evil done by the dictator removed from power,   
   > Mr. Blair said: "When people say to me, you know, `Do you regret   
   > removing him?' I say, `No, how can you regret removing somebody who   
   > was a monster, who created enormous carnage?'"   
   >   
   > He added: "And if you look at what's happening in the Arab Spring   
   > today, and you examine what's happening in Syria - just reflect on   
   > what Bashar Assad, who is a twentieth as bad as Saddam, is doing to   
   > his people today, and the number of lives already lost, just ask   
   > yourself, `What would be happening in Iraq now if he had been left in   
   > power?'"   
   >   
   > Mr. Blair also told the BBC, "If things continue as they are in Syria   
   > today, within a few months - proportionate to the size of the   
   > population - more people will have died in Syria than in the whole of   
   > the conflict since 2003 in Iraq."   
   >   
   > Mr. Blair's decision to support the Bush administration's invasion of   
   > Iraq came in the face of widespread opposition in Britain. One month   
   > before the war, Scotland Yard estimated that more than 750,000 people   
   > took part in one protest rally in London's Hyde Park. They heard the   
   > playwright Harold Pinter describe the United States as "a monster out   
   > of control" and a "country run by a bunch of criminal lunatics with   
   > Blair as their hired Christian thug."   
   >   
   > One year after the invasion, an independent inquiry into Britain's   
   > role in spreading faulty intelligence used to make the case for war   
   > directly criticized Mr. Blair for having claimed, in late 2002, that   
   > Iraq had "existing and active military plans for the use of chemical   
   > and biological weapons, which could be activated within 45 minutes."   
   > A British intelligence report that Iraq was seeking uranium from   
   > Africa was also cited by President George Bush in his 2003 State of   
   > the Union speech, on the eve of war.   
   >   
   > A Lebanese-Iraqi architect and blogger based in London, Karl Sharro,   
   > bitterly mocked Mr. Blair's 45-minute claim this week, as the former   
   > prime minister continued to defend the war.   
   >   
   > Karl Sharro @KarlreMarks   
   >   
   > Press reports suggest that Tony Blair can be deployed within 45   
   > minutes to declare that he doesn't regret his decision to invade   
   > #Iraq.  12:57 PM - 18 Mar 13   
   >   
   > Karl Sharro @KarlreMarks   
   >   
   > The invasion of Iraq forced my entire family there to leave   
   > permanently and I don't know when will I see it again. Sorry for not   
   > cheering.  1:36 PM - 19 Mar 13   
      
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