Tony Blair: baying for Iranian blood?

Blair Hijacks Inquiry: Iran Deliberately Targeted

Posted by Jon King on Feb 05, 2010

Tagged with: 911, conspiracy, daniel kiddle, illegal war, iran, iraq war inquiry, new world politics, propaganda, saddam hussein, tony blair, yemen

Was Tony Blair’s Iraq War Inquiry threat against Iran the signal for another Middle East conflict…?

Blair Hijacks Inquiry: Iran Deliberately Targeted

By Daniel Kiddle

An Acute And Articulate Megalomaniac

Tony Blair is an acute and articulate politician, no doubt about that. He’s a rebellious public school boy who went on to become Prime Minister of the UK, or as some believe, a megalomaniac who turned his charisma to politics with devastating consequences.

But whichever way you look at it, during his unprecedented political career Tony Blair has duped everybody, and continues to do so. Watching the BBC newsreader the day he gave evidence to the Iraq War Inquiry was evidence enough to this end.

She seemed awe-struck, smitten even.

“If nervous at first he became confident, unrepentant (that) after 9/11 what he called the ‘calculus of risk’ had changed,” she smiled, with more than a hint of admiration for the man who took us to war.

Still quoting her hero, she went on: “Saddam Hussein and what were thought to be his weapons of mass destruction could no longer go unchallenged. Mr Blair says that not a day goes by, even now, when he doesn’t think about his decision to go to war.”

This presentation by the BBC was like a propaganda wrecking ball. I grimaced listening to it, all too aware of its consequences in the minds of a part-angry, part-bewildered public. The term ‘calculus of risk’, while betraying him as a master of spin, was Blair’s way of attempting to justify the war in our minds before we all finally remembered these were the words of a compulsive liar. We were being patronised by Tony Blair.

Next, he unashamedly defended his foreign policy decisions which, according to some sources, caused more than a million deaths and displaced millions more—his way of deflecting responsibility for the untold suffering which resulted from the infamous ‘dodgy dossier’ and an alliance to neoconservative maniacs.

Once again, we were being patronised by Tony Blair.

Blair Hijacks Inquiry: Iran Deliberately Targeted

An Anglo-American Conquest

blair_iran_source_the_sietch_org_small_copy To those who don’t buy into the pathetic excuse for journalism they call the ‘mainstream media’, a blatant Anglo-American conquest of Iraq is plainly seen here, another step toward these two imperialist powers fulfilling their ambitions to control the planet and all of its resources.

In the final analysis, what I found in watching this ‘inquiry’ was a repeat of the 2003 ‘invade-at-all-costs’ jargon used to propel us to war.

Same old, same old—an exasperated public suffering a serious political injury from leaders who just don’t care about what we think.

This is repugnant to democracy, and they know it. But they quite simply don’t care.

Blair Hijacks Inquiry: Iran Deliberately Targeted

Beating War Drums On Iran

There was a further aspect to Blair’s testimony we cannot afford to ignore, and it is this:

That even here, while being questioned on the legalities of his decision to invade Iraq, he was seen beating war drums and calling for a ‘tough stance’ on yet another oil-rich state, Iran.

Textual analysis shows that he mentioned Iran 58 times.

It’s as if he used the Inquiry as a platform to raise tensions and prepare us for possible military action against the Islamic Republic. That his ‘call to arms’ just happened to coincide with the US deploying a missile shield in the gulf, apparently to protect US allies in the Middle East from Iranian missiles, is yet further indication to this end.

While all this continues, Middle Eastern news networks have claimed the US has been carrying out a secret war in Yemen, with cruise missile and air strikes being reported. It should be said, however, that these claims are being strenuously denied by the White House.

Even so, I cannot begin to express the disbelief inherent in this. To me it seems plain that Tony Blair has just hijacked what was supposed to be a legitimate inquiry into the legality of a war and turned it into the pretext for the next destructive conflict.

This surely speaks volumes for the true nature of his character.

Looking at Iran and Yemen I see frightened countries and populations facing imperialist threats. The precautionary principle cannot justify such a large conflict. If this carries on we are looking at a conflict comparable in scale to any war before it.

Indeed, our new year’s hangovers have barely subsided and already we have witnessed the all too familiar scenario: Tony Blair speaks, and here comes another war.

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