Tuesday, April 15, 2014

War Criminal Tony Blair's many scandals

Yesterday, Iraq got back in the UK news cycle as a result of statements by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.  Today, the Liberal Democrats issued the following (Clegg is a Liberal Democrat):

Nick Clegg has called for the publication of the Chilcot report into the Iraq war, which identifies exactly what happened in the run-up to the conflict in Iraq.
The Chilcot report includes about 200 cabinet-level discussions, 25 notes from Tony Blair to George W Bush and more than 130 records of conversations between the former US president and Tony Blair.
The progress of the report began in 2009 and has cost millions of pounds so far. However, it is not clear why there is a delay in the process and Nick believes that some of those in line for scrutiny are holding up the process. He followed on to say that those who might be criticised must accept that this will happen considering that it was “one of the most momentous, one of the most catastrophic decisions in British foreign policy”.
"I'm sure Chilcot himself would like to get on with it as quickly as possible, I can't comment on exactly the reasons why, given there's a lot of to-ing and fro-ing about what is finally produced in published form in the report.
"Exactly what the holdup now is - this involved a lot of people, a lot of legalities and, of course, is a very, very sensitive issue.
"But I really do think now, everybody involved – including those who know they will be subject to renewed scrutiny from the Chilcot report – they all now accept that it is time that the report was published so the record can be scrutinised in the most objective way possible."


This is big news in England, not really noted by the US media.

Kind of like the other scandal War Criminal Tony Blair was already facing.

Wills Robinson (Daily Mail) explains:

Tony Blair's religious charity has links to an Islamic extremist group being investigated by MI5 and MI6, it has been alleged.
It has been claimed that two Muslim leaders, who have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, are advising The Tony Blair Faith Foundation.
The organisation has been declared a terrorist group in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and could be banned in Britain, despite insisting they do not have links to extremist factions. 

Blair tries to play it as a minor issue.  He was scrambling to deal with it on Monday before the Clegg statements.  Blair's office issued this statement yesterday:


Last weekend, the Sunday Telegraph published an article about two of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation's advisors. The Office of Tony Blair released the following statement regarding the article:
The recent piece in the Sunday Telegraph  is just another attempt to undermine Mr Blair's work. His opposition to the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood is well known so the article is particularly absurd.
"Both Dr Ismail Khudr Al-Shatti and Dr Mustafa Ceric have long and proud records in their commitment to peace and are great supporters of both the foundation and promoting understanding between people of different faiths"
"The recent piece in the Sunday Telegraph is just another attempt to undermine Mr Blair's work. His opposition to the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood is well known so the article is particularly absurd.
"Both Dr Ismail Khudr Al-Shatti and Dr Mustafa Ceric have long and proud records in their commitment to peace and are great supporters of both the foundation and promoting understanding between people of different faiths."

The issue of whether the two are terrorists or not might matter to the US government when determining whether or not to put Tony Blair on a no-fly list, but it has more meaning than that.

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War Criminal Tony Blair isn't just a former prime minister and his so-called Faith Foundation isn't his only credit at present.  He's also the Special Envoy for the Quartet on the Middle East and his associations with his foundation present difficulties for him as Special Envoy.  He might even have to resign if the issue doesn't fade and that little title of Special Envoy is all he's clung to in an attempt to shield his battered image.

Now he has to scramble to deal with Clegg's statements as well.  Sam Coates (The Australian) notes, "Mr Blair's office suggested that by saying Iraq was the worst foreign policy catastrophe since Suez, Mr Clegg was ignoring events in Syria."

War Criminal Tony Blair is attempting to sell war on Syria and he's getting near hysterical on the topic.  Seymour Hersh's  "The Red Line and the Rat Line" (The London Review of Books) exposed the reality of the claims used last fall in an attempt to sell war on Syria -- the false claims.

Possibly, it's too embarrassing for the US media -- having whored themselves so ridiculously on the part of the White House to sell another war -- to note Hersh's report which smacks down all their whoring and all the celebrity Tweeting by faded has beens who felt their role in 'world peace' was to sell a war?







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