So the Great Liar has finally got up on his hind feet

[zeitghost]

It ain't my fault, honest, guv.

How this twat is a) walking around free rather than being tried as a war criminal and b) is a fecking middle east peace envoy is absoluckingfutely beyond surreal.

Carry on, nothing to see here.

[Scruff]

He still thinks that he is an Übermensch too, which is even more remarkable.

[xoggoth]

Quite, although he is not necessarily wrong to suggest it would all have happened anyway. SH would eventually have gone one way or another and if he was still around today, he would have been targeted by those currently involved in Syria.

Given the nature of Islamism and the tribal nature of the Arab world, the mistakes of those like Blair probably make very little difference in the long run.

For the same reasons, not the slightest point in us getting involved. How can we help the genuinely "moderate" rebels against Assad without also benefiting the extreme Islamists? If we help put the former in power, how long before they are targeted by the latter just as the Iraq government is now?

[KentPhilip]

SH would eventually have gone one way or another and if he was still around today, he would have been targeted by those currently involved in Syria.

Saddam Hussein was a strong dictator - I don't believe any uprising against him from those muslims in Syria would have been successful.

[xoggoth]

Maybe KP but so is Assad and he hasn't won yet. Wouldn't stop them trying.

[Troll]

Stab,Stab, Stabbity Stab™

[Doggy Styles]

Maybe KP but so is Assad and he hasn't won yet. Wouldn't stop them trying.

Remember he hasn't lost yet either.

[BrilloPad]

BBC News - Tony Blair: 'We didn't cause Iraq crisis'

Standing outside some posh palace.

I hope there are more riots in LOndon so I can pop round and put a brick through his window.

[KentPhilip]

Maybe KP but so is Assad and he hasn't won yet. Wouldn't stop them trying.

I'm not sure about that.
Assad took over from his father, and was an Optician in London before he did so. I suspect that Assad, while doing some harsh things, is too nice, and doesn't have the killer instinct that Saddam had. Saddam was a self-made man in dictator terms - he rose from nothing to his position of power.

Assad looks like a dork as well.

[SpontaneousOrder]

Plus it's guys like Blair arming and funding the rebels in the first place. Hardly makes sense to then blame a lack of intervention in Syria for those same rebels spilling over into Iraq.