After Blair stands down as PM, should he be tried for war crimes?

Question

This man's smarm and conniving appears to have been a big factor in getting the UK involved in the Iraq adventure on extremely dodgy grounds.

Now he may be innocent, but I believe you could make a case and have him defend against it, and that would be damned interesting to see...

Agree/disagree? Why/why not?

I'd say that it was a war crime to invade a sovereign state on false pretences. Weapons of Mass Destruction?

As Blair was PM, maybe he should take the rap. That's all I'm saying.

Answer 1

War crimes? The Islamo-nazis should be tried for war crimes, and you should be tried for treason.

Answer 2

Of course he should, Iraq is the biggest blunder since the charge of the 'Light Brigade', Blair lied his head off to ensure Britain entered the war and falsified documents to maintain legitimacy, he put pressure on Lord Goldsmith to lie about the legality and denounced Kelly for speaking out and giving the truth, the chief weapons inspector in Iraq, resigned because of Blair's lies and three million British subjects went on the streets of London to tell Blair not to go in to Iraq. As a result of the invasion one million Iraqis are dead, a similar number seriously wounded or with loss of limbs, and our troops have tortured and violated the Iraqi Freedom fighters,
on top of that America have set up concentration camps which are still in full occupation and the Iraqi freedom fighters human rights have been totally abused.

How can any one who has an ounce of common sense say otherwise. Blair is a monster and what he has done should not be forgotton.

ATB Red

Answer 3

Like Benito Mussolini, 1883-1945, the only justice one can expect for toffs like Tony Blair is 'em being dragged from vehicle along with his immediate entourage off a sunny country lane and summarily hanged as a group without any
particular distinction upon one roadside tree by countrymen who siezed an opportunity that presented itself. People who
dance above the law should end their life dancing above the
same ordinary people so frequently abused. Was Italy made a better place afterward? Results, PM, speak for themself.

Answer 4

Tony Blair is one of the most elite to come out of the UK!
The UK is much better off having known a man of this caliber!

Answer 5

You had better explain what "War crime" you think he has committed, otherwise you will just get a load of hollow rhetoric from the Blair Bashers.

Follow up: You said that he "invaded a sovereign state under false pretences (WMD)." No he didn't. (1) Everyone thought Saddam had WMD, including the UN and the French Secret Service. (2) we were already engaged in military action against Iraq in policing the No Fly zones.

You might argue that the invasion wasn't specifically sanctioned by the UN. But I'm not sure that represents a war crime.

Answer 6

A lot of you people really scare me. Thank God for men like Blair. I'm glad I probably won't be here to see what you all do to our country

Answer 7

Bush - Blair Treason Indignation

Indignation Grows in U.S. Over British Prewar Documents
Reports in the British press this month based on documents indicating that President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair had conditionally agreed by July 2002 to invade Iraq appear to have blown over quickly in Britain.

But in the United States, where the reports at first received scant attention, there has been growing indignation among critics of the Bush White House, who say the documents help prove that the leaders made a secret decision to oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein nearly a year before launching their attack, shaped intelligence to that aim and never seriously intended to avert the war through diplomacy.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-memogate12may12,1,5613456.story?coll=la-news-a_section&ctrack=1&cset=true Category: IRAQ

9-11 Fax to Congress
The following letter (reproduced here in a slightly edited form for brevity) is being sent by a group called 9/11 Truth Action to the 89 Congress people who recently wrote to President Bush about Iraq. The Congress people demanded that the president explain why he "fixed" the Iraqi intelligence in order to rationalize the invasion of Iraq.

After you read the letter, and view the video and link referenced in the letter, write congress yourself to give a piece of your mind!
http://www.georgewashington.blogspot.com/
Category: 911


... add a PS asking how, with an unknown number of planes flying across the country crashing into buildings, with Bush's presence at Booker Elementary School reported three days ahead of time, and an airport just 4 miles away, did the United States Secret Service Protective Detail KNOW that President BUsh was safe where he sat, reading about goats.


FLASHBACK: 'Iraq was Invaded to Secure Israel,' says Senator Hollings, and 'Everybody Knows It.'
When a prominent American political figure speaks boldly about Jewish-Zionist power, that's news. So the recent remarks by South Carolina's senior Senator that Iraq was invaded "to secure Israel," and that "everybody" in Washington knows it, are indeed remarkable.
http://www.ihr.org/news/040716_hollings.shtml
Category: IRAQ

See: Bush-Blair Pre-War Documents
http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/news/2004/wwwh40724.htm
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/17/iraq/main563751.shtml
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42390
http://www.lib.ecu.edu/govdoc/iraq.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/17/iraq/main563828.shtml
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/06/25/iraq/main560449.shtml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/cartoons/0,12923,912730,00.html
http://www.islamonline.net/english/In_Depth/Iraq_Aftermath/2003/09/article_12.shtml
http://www.wral.com/news/2339269/detail.html?type=palm
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3513167
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/iraqwar.html
http://www.mediaresearch.org/archive/cyber/archive03.asp
http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/news/2004/wwwh40205.htm
http://www.blogsforbush.com/mt/archives/002322.html
http://www.perspectives.com/forums/forum4/7597.html
http://www.sundayherald.com/print35264
http://portlandleft.blogspot.com/2005/05/smoking-gun-memo-pre-war-intel-fixed.html
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/archives/2003_08.html
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/justifindex.htm
http://www.truthaboutgeorge.com/war/index.html
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jksonc/iraq-2003a.html
http://www.ariannaonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11652
http://www.lewrockwell.com/prather/prather10.html
http://justworldnews.org/archives/000914.html
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/irqindx.htm
http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2003/541/541p14.htm
http://www.ariannaonline.com/forums/printthread.php?t=11652
http://www.mediamonitors.net/bangash41.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1240735/posts
http://deepblade.net/journal/2005/04/secret-uk-pre-war-legal-memo.html
http://www.aljazeerah.info/News%20archives/2003%20News%20archives/October/1%20n/Bush%20and%20Blair%20feel%20fresh%20heat%20on%20Iraq%20war.htm
http://www.armscontrol.org/events/iraq_july03.asp
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/cgi-bin/MasterPFP.cgi?doc=http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/100102_iraq_timeline.html
http://www.pinr.com/report.php?ac=view_report&report_id=56&language_id=1
http://zzpat.tripod.com/cvb/impeach128.html
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/iraq2003/schorr_essays.html
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jksonc/iraq-2003d.html

Answer 8

Iraq was a mistake, not a war crime.

Answer 9

Do bears sh** in the woods ? Of course he should, but he won't. Instead a lifetime of worldwide gladhanding & lucrative public speaking beckons. Looks like some of the Americans on here are exactly the type of sheep who would flock to hear him. The only place I'd like to hear another peep out of him would be a dock in The Hague.

Answer 10

yes fully,

he is fully responsible for all the deaths including the 1 million plus iraqis that died because of both their stupidities. my wish is to see both of them in guantanomo bay where they have no rights at all. hope they both rot in hell.

Answer 11

Innocent? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. B-liar should stand trial without a doubt - the leaked Downing Street Memo proved beyond any doubt that he knew the US was fixing facts to support the policy and he STILL went along with it.